4 days with gabriel

i had 4 straight days with my little gabriel - the weekend, a holiday and a sick leave :( myCoco brought me to the hospital on sunday night, was admitted and discharged the following day. i had some serious stomach trouble for eating too many pizza. thankfully, the lab results were not serious.

anyways, myCoco worked overnight (Friday to Saturday).. so for saturday, gabriel and i just stayed home while we waited for dax to be up. we played all day. he's so heavy now and i'm having a hard time to make him sleep (unless he's really really tired). his dad has this ridiculous dance and song number that lulls our little kulokoy to sleep - and that i cannot do. well, i have my own song for him but not much dancing and definitely not ridiculous. sometimes, i think gabriel just sleeps to be able to stop dax from singing. dax woke up around 4:30pm and i got ready to leave for a party with my mom. it's sad to leave my honeyCoco and babyCoco but it's a debut and gabriel doesn't fit. when we arrived home, at 12mn, they were both sound asleep.

sunday, we went to the mall to inquire at globelines. unfortunately, their wires haven't reached our village yet. crappers. i think gabriel got too tired from looking around so when we had merienda, he was sleeping. he woke up after a few minutes and ate some pizza (cheese, actually). on our way home, the too-many-pizza-stomach-trouble thingie started.

monday, gabriel visited me at the hospital. he was his usual kulit self and he kept on trying to pull my dextrose. luckily, somebody always gets his hand first. i can't imagine the pain if he'll be able to do it successfully. well, we still continued to play at the hospital bed. he was all over me and most of the time, dax had to pick him up to avoid further damage to me. i went home with them that day, yipee. though i wasn't feeling that OK yet, i know it'll be better to recover at home.

the following day, dax stayed at home as well to help mom take care of me and gabriel. OMG. the little kulokoy is more kulit than ever and he's starting to be a brat. while i was changing his diaper, he kept on moving and so i told him to stop and i held his legs tight. he looked at me and said "HUHHH!!" with a red face and arms stretched firmly. he looked really stiff. i told him again to stop and he did. i won! oh well. i hope he learns what's good and bad and that he listens to us without the im-really-stiff-now look with some heavy crying. he actually looked funny but he shouldn't know he still looked cute.

long overdue post: i'm back home, finally

last august 10, after 90 days in ashburn, VA usa, i flew back home. it was a long journey but it was full of anticipation. i want to see my little gabriel so bad and i just want to kiss him all over. same with myCoco, of course. since dax and i became a couple (which was 1999), i think the longest time we were away from each other was 3 days or maybe 4. we usually see each other everyday since we came from the same university and still working on the same office. and during those years when we worked separately, he picked me up at the office to take me home almost everyday.

oh well, thanks to MSN Online and Yahoo! Messenger, i get to talk to them and see them online almost everyday so it was alright. however, seeing them but not being able to get real close was tough. especially on the first weeks and last few days.

august 9th, i was already checking in online at www.nwa.com. i was so excited that i've been packing for god knows how many days already. i have two 24x18x18 boxes with me to take home with shoes, bags, and a lot of other stuffs for pasalubongs. it was so hard to fit everything but it was fun. haha! i wish i had more money to get everything i want for myself and for my family. shopping heaven.

anyways, our flight (i went home with mark) was at 1240PM from Washington Dulles to Detroit. Then 355PM from Detroit to Nagoya, Japan. And finally, 730PM from Japan to Manila - that was august 11th already. thankfully, no delays. we even arrived ahead of schedule. dax, with gabriel and my tito boloy, tita charrie and cousin tinay picked me up at NAIA. gabriel was sleeping then but he woke up when i took him from dax. he looked at me for quite some time then he started jumping and shouting and smiling. he's got 4 teeth and 4 more that's starting to come out. he's a bit heavier and he sure is louder. when we reached home and i was unpacking, he was all over my luggage as if trying to see what i bought for him. he soooo loved mickey from ninang aida and he especially loves to bite the tail. the next day, mickey was smelling like promil gold. hahaha!

i am so happy to be back home.