overalls, toothless smiles and pointing fingers

everytime we get gabriel new clothes or stuffs, i would always ask myCoco to take pictures. that's why currently, my laptop HD is almost out of space (i'm exagerrating of course!).

we got him another overall the other day since he looks so cute in it at night. and.. he looks equally cute when wearing his sando w/ pampers during daytime!

lately, he's been very playful and it's also easy to make him smile (well, for dax - yes). myCoco imitates donald duck and this would give us a toothless smile from gabriel. after a few minutes though, he'll be tired of smiling and he'll look at us with big big eyes! very funny! he also has a habit of pointing at me.. and himself. he points at me when you ask him "sino ang kaaway mo?" and he points to himself when you ask him "sino cute?".. i know it's all coincidence, but it still makes us laugh.

last sunday, we went to zapote (where we used to live) to attend his 2nd cousin's 4th birthday party. we dressed him up but he slept almost the whole time. and during those times that he was up, all my tito's and tita's were playing with him - as well as my cousins. how i wish he could grow up in that environment. cavite is a bit too sad for mylittleCoco.

gabriel's semi-tagaytay trip

last january 28, we went to pink sisters in tagaytay to visit dax's lola madre. it was her 75th birthday and everyone from their family was there. we thought it was a good idea to bring our little angel so that everyone will see how cute and big he has become. true enough, everyone was so excited to see him except for one (who said they don't bring babies out at 2 1/2 months) haha. yeah i know he is too small but we just wanted his lola madre to see him. we got her blessings for gabriel though!

myCoco's brother, boogie, and sister, divina (aunt ann to gabriel) were there as well. does aunt ann look like little goobie (well, she calls gabriel that)? i saw her baby pictures once and gabriel does look a lot like her then.

gabriel's many faces

we so love to take pictures of gabriel!

gabriel: before and after bath

one of the things i thought i wouldn't be able to do was to bathe gabriel. he was soooo tiny during his first few weeks so i didn't dare do it. my lola was the one to give him his first bath at home. then everytime after that, i always make an excuse and ask somebody else to do it for me. well, even my mom didn't dare do it. haha!
myCoco and i, during one of our looking-for-baby-stuffs-mall-trip found a very cute (and very expensive!) bathtub from fisher price. i thought it was perfect for gabriel.. so the day after we took him home, myCoco went out to buy it. and now that i am doing the bathing, i would say that it's a must to get one for a newborn baby. very easy to use and really convenient for both me and myLittleCoco.

he was only 1 month old in the pictures above

little gabriel and his oversized pampers (size: small)

gabriel's pix

there's quite a number of friends asking for updated pictures of our little angel. then i realized that the last that i posted here in my blog was taken during the day we took him home.. which was 2 months ago!

his last day in my tummy - november 15, 2006

just a few minutes after he was born - november 16, 2006

1 week old - november 23, 2006

november 26, 2006

november 28, 2006

december 1, 2006

one of my favorite shots (so suplado) - december 2, 2006

1 month old - december 16, 2006 (was he smiling?)

new year's day 2007

he was crying when this picture was taken. i bet he was hungry at this time. little gabriel only cries big time when hungry.. just like me.. i hate it when im hungry.

2 months old which was just a few days ago - january 16, 2007

just this morning - so adorable

2 months & 2 days

gabriel is now 63 days old. turned 2 months 2 days ago - which means i am already back to work. i hope SSS gives 1 year maternity leave for normal delivery. i really can't get enough of myLittleCoco and i am having a hard time every morning when myCoco and i leaves the house for work. like this morning, it took us awhile to leave because he threw up. and on our way out of the house, he was looking at us with those eyes again.. it looks like he was begging for us to stay.. then he cried (well, i think he cried because he was hungry.. haha).

i miss:
- giving him warm baths on his super cute bath tub
- dressing him up
- cleaning his ears and nose
- trimming his really small finger nails
- looking at his face while he is sleeping
- looking at his face when he is smiling while sleeping
- looking at his eyes
- his eyes looking at me
- his "uwaaaaaaaa, uwaaaaaaaaa"
- his catlike cry when he's hungry
- sleeping beside him anytime of the day
- everything about him

arrkkkss. i want to go home.

gabriel's 1st day at home

Here's our cute little Gabriel on hist first day at home!

gabriel is finally out!

it was one super memorable experience. i can't forget everything that happened november 16th 2006 except the part where gabriel actually came out!

12:00mn: i woke up having a weird feeling of wetting my bed. i'm 27 years old, married and pregnant and i wet my bed?! haha. the words that first came out my mouth was "mom...". myCoco is on the night shift and i sleep with my mom since were kinda anticipating that our little gabriel will be out anytime soon and someone has to be always with me. my mom told me, i am about to give birth.. my water broke.

12:05am: when i finally realized that that was it, i called myCoco and asked him if he could come home to bring me to the hospital. i was calculating and thinking that he could be in cavite (where we live) from makati in about 40 minutes. he said ok, still relaxed (or trying to be) and he told me he'll just make a quick turn over of things at work. i think he left makati around 12:20am.

while waiting for dax, i got the video and the digital cameras. i made sure everything that we packed a few days ago won't be forgotten (which includes our baby's clothes and dax's coke light).

1:00am: myCoco was already home. almost all stuffs were already in the car before i went down. i told dax to be cool, we still have a lot of time. i know we do because there was NO PAIN at all. we were just worried that my water broke. i was even telling them that the doctors might just ask me to come home again and wait for a few more days.

1:15am: we were already at the hospital. i was asked to fill out a few forms and answer some questions. after a few minutes, they told me i will give birth TODAY if everything goes well (labor and all). they contacted my OB-GYN and they said she'll be in by 4am - i think not. they contacted my pediatrician, anesthesiologist and cardiologist as well. myCoco and mom was asked to get a room and i was brought to the labor room after an hour or so. they did some internal examination and told me that i was still at 1cm however, i have to give birth as soon as possible because my water already broke.

2:30am-6:00am at the labor room: still no pain here. i was thinking, if this is labor then it is easy. haha. i think they did something to induce labor by 6am.

7:00am-i don't know when: oh my good lord, IT WAS REALLY PAINFUL. whatever they did to me really worked and i was having contractions. i was crying and was about to ask the nurses to call for my mom and dax. i was so scared and i really felt bad cause i was alone. i heard somebody said i was at 3cm. i was having contractions every 5 mins, every 2 mins, every 3 mins. i was brought to the delivery room i think where they injected novane. they were telling me they cannot do epidural anaesthesia yet (i really don't know why). then i heard somebody say, maybe it's not at 3cm anymore because the pain it gives me was like actual labor (i think). then blah blah blah.. blah blah blah.. knockout! i woke up after a while, still dizzy with a blurred vision. i only recognized my OB-GYN telling me that i can do it. then.. knockout (i really didn't know what happened afterwards).

by the way, i was getting epidural anaesthesia since i have a mitral valve prolapse and according to my OB-GYN, she could not let me experience the pain of labor. what?! if what i experienced was not pain of labor yet.. then i can really say that i cannot experience the pain of labor.

3:30pm: i heard somebody said "mrs. solis.. ililipat na po kayo sa room nyo in a few minutes". i looked at her, touched my tummy and said "nanganak na ako?!" she said "opo".. i said "san na ang baby ko?" and she said, "nursery".. whew.. it was over.. and i don't know how gabriel came out.

it was a normal delivery and our little gabriel is healthy and doing well (me too!). he's 5.5lbs at 45cm. really really cute and he smells so nice!

what ever happened to my jerry yan

im still his #1 fan.

though not so updated, i know he's got a new series. i know he went to japan to promote it. i know he still looks so handsome and adorable as ever.


can't wait for his next visit.

working from home

do i really like to work from home? yes and no.

yes because i don't have to travel to makati all the way from cavite. i hate the heavy traffic. i hate waking up so early so i could leave the house at 6am. i hate driving - my tummy is really big now and i'm having a hard time with the wheel. i also hate not seeing myCoco while working.

no because it's so hard to work with my team using Yahoo!Messenger and emails. and since i get logged off by YM every now and then - it makes things worse. warks! and i hate not being able to join friday dinners with my college friends :(

in a few weeks, or maybe sooner than i expect, i might be required by my OB-GYN to just work from home or maybe take bed rest again. im getting a lot of braxton hicks contractions lately and it is really so uncomfortable. im on my 34th week and im expecting gabriel to be out in 6 weeks. really hope he waits for 6 more weeks.

work from home? yes. better than bed rest!