my boys...

i've been quite stressed out lately that it feels like i didn't get to spend my usual time with my kids. blame work, issues whatever, it still boils down to the fact that my kids missed me and i missed them. and in the past weeks that i was going home late and seeing them sleeping peacefully makes me sad.

yeah it's hard raising and taking care of two kids and their nannies while worrying about work too.

i'm still not over the fact that kyle's 2 and keon's going to celebrate his first birthday in a few months! it still feels like i just gave birth two months ago to these boys. the way they're growing up it seems i should cut down on their vitamins (joke)

i seem to be neglecting their milestones which i should've blogged about. but what did i blog about? anything besides them. so sad. :( so here we go...

kyle's been really expressive now with a few sprinkles of his own language which i try to decipher and pretend to know. when he speaks i have to process it for a few minutes then try to find the nearest sounding word. he's quite the chatterbox now, which my mom reminds me that he was like me when i was two, just a few notches higher. he's forming sentences now like: mommy, open please or daddy, wake up dede please or he'll get my dad's hands and order him to go up the stairs with him. and yes, my little boy of two has manners. he now knows how to say please and thank you. and he prays at night too, with matching goobye wave and flying kiss to jesus. he now knows how to count from 1-10 and he's abc's are a bit improving, but i'm not pressuring him. he knows a few nursery rhymes, can give the equivalent animal sounds of cats, birds, frogs, elephants, lions, tigers, dragons(yes, dragons), ducks, cows etc. he calls penguins happy feet - much easier for kids his age to pronounce, yes? or he has watched happy feet a million times next to cars.

and he's quite the little malambing boy i have ever met - or maybe he's just clingy and a momma's boy. but hey, i'm not complaining. he still loves sleeping on top of me, even if i have a hard time breathing, but if it makes him sleep, all the better. and did i mention that he stills smells like a baby? all sweaty and dirty, he still smells like a baby.

now my little chuchi bear keon, at 7 months, he's quite the happy baby. quite the opposite of his kuya kyle. when he wakes up, he's all smiles and laughter compared to kyle who's enemies with everybody with the scowls and sour face and kunot-noo (mana kay mommy sa umaga haha). he loves seeing people fawning over him and he's happy to give a few happy jumps and squeals. oh, his squeals are the cutest ever! i love making him laugh by kissing the part under his chin and the look of contentment in his face when i do that. i love it!! he now waves bye bye when we tell him to. he's now learning to sit on his own and he's quite the crawler now, just show him the remote and he'll get it-fast. and we have just demoted him to the bottom part of his crib, he's too heavy for the basinette to hold.

looking at my two kids, they're polar opposites. kyle looks like me when i was a baby, especially if i tie his hair and keon looks like his dad when he was a baby, only whiter. i have to scan our pics as proof.

well then, time to go home to my babies and spend quality time with them. :)