Moving up

It feels like only yesterday when we bought Dani's crib at SM City. The days just watching her sleep soundly. As months pass her head would stick out from under the bumper guards. Then she sat, holding on to the sides. Now she climbs up the crib herself, my heart still pounding when she does this. 

With Caleb here, the crib is passed on and Dani gets her own bed. Who knew a bed would make me so emotional? 

Stepping up into another season. My baby is not a baby anymore. 

Hot and cold

With Caleb only two weeks old, it has amazed me at how similar and opposite my two children are. 

Caleb easily gets chilly. Dani on the other hand can sleep through a typhoon and still get sweaty! 

Caleb is calm and pensive (so far), Dani is a firecracker, she can go on and on and on and on. 

But the similarities are just as baffling.  Caleb has also developed the same skin allergy to his soap the way Dani did during this time. To top it all off, Caleb has become a cholic child. There goes the peace and quiet in the evening! God help us get through this phase once more. The hours seem to drag on as my son cries with pain. And all he has to do is pass wind! 

My health has suffered more this time around. Was rushed to the hospital because my blood pressure reached 180/120 and apparently my cholesterol level has tripled the normal rate. 

So I haven't been as hands on as ai would have wanted to be because I need to keep myself relaxed and rested.  I am blessed with good nannies. They are my rocks right now. Not to mention my husband who is everything and doing it all right now. 

But seeing my two kids together is such a joy. Dani has become a big sister just like that. She wants to hold, hug and kiss her brother every chance she gets. A bit clingy and she gets a bit over excited (gigil) for everyone's comfort. She springs up every morning to see him and wants to sleep with him at night. Whenever Caleb cries she gets so protective and empathizes by shedding her own tears. 

Caleb has surprisingly been pretty calm despite his sister's piercing yelps. He sleeps right through it all. 

God definitely balanced them both out for us. Its going to be fascinating seeing them both grow up. In all this, you see how God always has a plan in motion. You can't plan this with all the great minds in the world. His ways are more than we can ever fathom. 

Hello, Syoti!

On January 3, 2014, God blessed our family with our 2nd child, a healthy baby boy! 

Thank you, Father God! And so

many people kept commenting he looks like my dad. 

Excited to see how Dani reacts when she sees him for the first time.