In their stillness

We often hear these words: "How fast time flies!" This can't be any truer for me now that I'm aging. I see my kids peel each year with new milestones. I'm happy for every progress they do but I always wish things would slow down a bit. Even if we are together every single day, I still wake up wondering where those years have gone.

In the stillness of the room when they're asleep, I sketched my babies wishing with every stroke I would remember their tiny voices and innocent faces even when they're all grown up (without the help of videos).

Mavis at 1 year old.

Rooney at 3 years old.

Pia at 1 year old.

The Revival of Rainbow Stripes

After 5 years! WOW!

I opened another blog where I shared mostly the "realities" of motherhood - at least my own reality. I just realized that this blog is still ACTIVE! Great! It's like walking in memory lane going back to my old posts.

Five years later, another girl is added to our brood. A family of 5 with only 1 guy. You can imagine the dominance of high-pitched voices and girly stuff in our home. But the hubby influences his girls to enjoy other stuff that we may think are only for boys - playing basketball, collecting dinosaurs, engaging in rough games until one of them cries (hahaha!).

Here are some snaps from the past 5 years!

Rooney's Baptism

Our baby Rooney Jazz just got baptized last Sunday. It was a happy rainbow-themed party even if it was a rainy day. That morning we were greeted by a heavy rainfall. When we finally arrived from the church, there's another round of shower from above. But after the rain, there's a rainbow! And yes, we got rainbows everywhere in this event. Rooney was mostly awake during the baptismal ceremony and during lunchtime, probably enjoying (or staring) everyone whom she just met for the first time that day.

My sister (the one on the left on 2nd photo from below) Sho helped me in making this rainbow party come true! She did the rainbow cake (1st photo above) and most of the other sweet treats everyone enjoyed during the rainy lunch. Our caterer (Kaitlyn's catering at San Jose del Monte City) did an amazing job in making everything look rainbow! We just had one meeting and they got mostly what we wanted to achieve (plus delicious foods).

My niece Ayi (the one on the farthest right on last photo) captured this precious moment by taking beautiful photos of this event.

It was such a simple happy day for everyone! There's your family and friends from places far from our home and most of them you can only be with on special occasions like this. I suggest that events like this should happen more often! :)

xoxo

(I'll have another post on the details of the behind the scenes of this event. And how we did the rainbow cake.)

Rainbow cake with M&Ms and Goya Take It (or KitKat), Baptismal dress and socks from SM Dept Store, Mommy's skirt and Daddy's pants from Oxygen