family dates: gary v. concert, "up" movie, and dora show

it was three saturdays ago when the whole family went to smex to watch the concert of mr. pure energy gary valenciano. the event was sponsored by pilipinas shell and jude was lucky enough to be given four free tickets.

 

 

our initial plan was the concert would only be a date between me and jude but the daddy made a last-minute decision to bring along the little boy. i had apprehensions with this decision as i imagined the concert venue filled with unruly crowd and iñigo getting bored since there’s nothing to be seen in the concert but song and dance numbers. but everything was only in my imagination as the concert was so organized and iñigo was so entertained by the show.

 

 

iñigo danced along to one of gary v.'s songs

 

the concert even turned out a very special treat for us as aside from the free concert foods and freebies also abound in the concert. we even brought home a souvenir cd of gary v. and packed meals from italiannis and tgi friday’s! =P

 

 

the happy and BUSOG family =D

 

sidekwento: iñigo asked me before the start of the show on when jollibee will appear on the stage. duh! it’s because he heard me wrong when i told him that we’re going to watch gary v… sounds like jollibee. nyahaha!

 

one of my souvenir shots of gary v.

 

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we’re taking every opportunity now for family dates as we’re sure that we will be homebound again in the coming months so when the movie “up” opened two weeks ago we were one of the first moviegoers to see it. guess who requested… err, nangulit for us to see this movie? yup, it’s the little boy. and guess who plead that we leave the movie house when oversized canines appeared in the screen? hehe. but of course we didn’t leave… i just told iñigo to put his arms around me and close his eyes when he doesn’t like what he sees in the movie. the tricks worked. the movie is so good and funny to be left unfinished. the daddy and the mommy had a good time watching it.

 

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i thought we will not be able to watch it but then, we did! and the mommy was as happy as iñigo when i received a text message from the concierge of glorietta mall that we won two stubs for the dora show's the big piñata. i made sure we were there (atrium of glorietta 5) early last saturday so we can have seats in the front rows.

the dora fan of course was delighted to see her with boots, the map and sniper on stage. too bad we can't stay longer for the free picture-taking as i got a call from our neighbor in cabuyao that our house there was ransacked and we have to be there immediately. =(

 

 

10,000 B.C.

the latest movie jude and i watched…

 

and the first movie iñigo watched…. uhm… the first 15 minutes of the movie at least. =)

 

we know it’s not a kid-friendly movie that’s why we decided to wait for the last screening as we know it’s past iñigo’s sleeping time and he’d be quietly sleeping in my arms after i nursed him. indeed, everything happened according to our plan.

 

yes!

 

this is what i call “hitting two birds with one stone”. the first bird was we were able to go on a date and watched this very nice movie in the big screen and the other tweety was we were able to do it without me worrying about our little boy as he was with us.

 

two of the things parenthood taught us are creativity and flexibility. and i think we’re going to master them now that another baby is coming. =D

 

 

siempre may picture because it's another iñigo's first'.... hehe.

 

sidekwento:

 

we dined in max’s before the movie to keep our tummies full. foods were good as well as the service. whenever jude or i needed something, we just wave our hand to one of the waiters and say, “boss”.  you see, jude has this habit of calling the waiters “boss” to get their attention and i picked up this habit eventually.

 

we were already having our dessert when one of the waiters passed by our table and a small voice that said “boss” was heard. the clueless waiter stopped and looked back on our table. jude and i could not give any word to him as we were chuckling. it was iñigo who called him boss and we have no idea why.

 

toddlers can really pick up anything, eh?

 

so who’s the boss now for iñigo?

 

=D

simple joys of bonding

jude and i promised early this year that we will spare one weekend every month, whether it’s on a saturday or sunday, to treat our son outside the house. may it be in a mall or a park or zoo, it doesn’t matter as long as we, especially our little boy, will have fun. so when jude’s cousin canceled the supposed-to-be errand of them to cavite, we just decided to go out and kill our time inside a mall. after having a sumptuous lunch in paseo de sta. rosa, jude drove us to alabang town center as it already been ages since the last time we went there.

it was a time well spent inside the mall. we let him eat first his favorite food in his favorite fastfood joints--spaghetti of jollibee, what else? =D

after the spaghetti, we walked along ATC's hallways until we reached its rotunda. iñigo was mesmerized by the carousel in the play area and even climbed the gate rails so he can have a better look of the horses, which he kept on signing to tell us he knows how it is being called.

i even let him ride the carousel and he was happy and contented all the time he was sitting in one of the horses. and i was also filled with joy. simple things like this already brings me happiness, especially when i was already filling my tummy with go nuts donuts glaze lite… hay, sarap! as i’ve always said, it’s not on how much we spent but that bring us happiness. it’s that we’re all together and having fun that truly matter.