graduation day

Finally… it’s our daughter’s turn to graduate from nursery.

Joy with Alexa

She’s so cute! My little makulit girl has finally reached one of her turning points. She will graduate not only from nursery but also from being the “baby.” She and her kuya will always be my babies. But she will also be leaving behind her real baby character…

I don’t know how to explain it but, she’s quiet and accepting when she was only a toddler and before we enrolled her in nursery. So innocent looking, none of her I-know-it-already nursery look and attitude. So trusting and always looks for Mom and Dad or Kuya or Yaya/Ate when she wants to feel the familiar sense of security that family can afford. Her baby cry when she wakes up early and finds out that I’m again going to work, I will miss and not miss. Not miss ‘coz I hurt more thinking of her crying for me not to go to work each time she wakes up and sees me hurrying off to work. I will miss ‘coz being a working mom, I missed taking care of her 6 days a week (the company I work for required the employees, before, to work half-day on Saturdays) when she was still months old. I regret that deeply. I envy moms who are able to take care of their babies, their children.

She’s my baby. I feel so protective of her. My bunso.

I included here some of her graduation pictures.

Joy showing off her diploma and picture in toga

Kids her age are normally playful. So in some of the photos she was caught playing with her classmate and friend, Alexa.

Joy plays with Alexa while the graduation mass was ongoing

pool day

My son had his final exams in third grade early, he was almost always left at home alone. His younger sister goes to her nursery class from 10AM to 12:40 at noon. Sometimes he fetches her just to cut off his boring daily routine. Then yaya takes her sister to her house so she can finish her home chores while she takes care of our bunso. Yaya lives with her family and their house is only 2 houses behind our house.

My son opts to spend his time playing almost all of his and her sister’s DVD discs, or plays games on the family computer, or with his MP4.

He also enlisted his sister in his “swimming/picnic day at the pool” campaign! Of course who wouldn’t want a day at one of the pools. But there’s a lot of bills to pay lately so I did not give them sure answers whenever they asked if we can go.

Then one day my temper (due to my hubby) is almost at its boiling point, to ease things up, I announced that the following Saturday is Pool Day for us.

Here are some of my kid’s pics. And no, they’re just using old swimsuits the pictures were taken last March before my daughter’s graduation.

so chubby and sunburned!

my chubby son is the one with the neon green lifesaver, while his sister is the one using the orange lifesaver