Sunshine & Rain

Rainy days are meant for projects...







Land's End in SF after the rain...

The slugs were out.

"What happened to the trees?"

Watching waves & listening to the ocean.




Exploring the cave.


Spending time with his brother, Homielito.

Back from L dot A

Painting at LACMA.

Miles and I got to spend quality time with his cousins, Lucy & Ben, as well as some time with his Aunty Teresa, Aunty Lea, and Uncle Tom (we were at his cabin). I miss my niece and nephew so much already and Miles wishes they lived closer. Lucy had me rolling because she is just so darn clever. Miles is now making me do knock knock jokes that Lucy taught him:
Miles: Knock knock!
Me: Who's there?
Miles: Banana!
Me: Banana who?
Miles: I can't hear, I got a banana stuck in my ear!

Ok, doesn't sound funny right. But it was soo funny to them, regardless of how many times they repeated it back and forth. So simple and fun--that was our L.A. trip. Having kids definitely makes me appreciate these moments.
Miles really enjoyed, Millions of Milkshakes, Pinkberry, LACMA, playing Bionicles with Lucy, making Ben Isaac laugh, and of course, listening to 3 bed time stories as well as Lucy's bedtime music with her before dozing off. When we got back home, he asked me to buy him one of those boom boxes to put by his bedside like his cousin Lucy.


w/ Ninang Lea, Ben, & Lucy


Radioflying cousins




Get 'em started young! Aunty Teresa reading to Ben before his sleepy time.

Public Service Announcement: Rocky Rivera

Just got back home from this:


It's late or early in the am but felt inspired and compelled to say to all you Mileskiii lovers out there, that you gotta buy this album now!



(Cop it at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/RockyRivera)

I met Rocky Rivera in my college days at SF State. Almost 10 years later, she's a mother to a 2 year-old boy, and making good music, and I mean GOOD. As a mother myself, I don't know how she did it?! Putting an album together, a solid one, is not an overnight process. Yet Rocky Rivera managed to do this while being a new mom. Gangsta! So yo, please support her, cause as she said "...every penny goes straight to my bank account and feeds my family" (http://guerillabusfare.blogspot.com/). That's wassup. So do yourself a favor, and invest in some good music, which supports an artist, a mother, a Pinay. Really proud of her! And by the way, I did the cuts on the first track, Rocky Rivera ;)


Had to drag this picture off her blog. If you're a parent, I know you know what that mint green thing is in the back ;)

Raising A Nerd.

You know something is up when you hear your kid asking for homeschool on a Sunday!? I had to stop doing the laundry, get down to his level, and explain that Sunday is meant to be a chill, chore day, family day--anything but school day. I guess it's a good thing that he's asking for a lesson plan?! He's been so into this letter scavenger hunt I do with him Monday-Friday. As soon as he gets up and gets ready, he comes downstairs, goes to his little mailbox to see what the letter of the day is. Then, he's off around the house looking for the letters I hide by objects that begin with the letter of the day. I honestly, just tried to make up something we can do as a regular part of our homeschool days. I actually thought he would think it was boring, but he loves it and it's really helping him as far as in sounding out words.

Anyway, I'm glad he has this inclination towards books, letter, words, etc. I've always been a nerd and his dad also (more like a record nerd!). There's always been some sort of negative connotation to the word, nerd. But I embrace it! We should be proud of education and being educated and passionate about anything we are all "experts" at. So don't get it twisted. Besides this mailbox/letter scavenger hunt routine, we also take daily trips to the park for a good walk and running around. Its also a great time for Miles to mingle with the other kids.




While he has fun running around at the park, for some reason--he enjoys running around his nanay's and papo's house more with his BFF Dengs. And when given a choice between park or library, he will choose library. The library also makes a great weekly or even bi-weekly trip that never gets old.


He can't get enough of books and seems to have moved on from picture books to adventure books.

This one in particular, is what he chose for his bedtime book. I have to read a chapter each night. I am missing those one sentence pages--or better yet, pages with no words, just pictures.

Saturday was papo's 58th birthday so we celebrated at Princess Garden, the historic Chinese restaurant of Vallejo. Haha! Before we went to Papos' bday, Miles whipped up some oatmeal & walnut cookies and a bday card with the "papo monster" on it for his grandpa. Miles is really into monster anything these days. Happy Birthday papo, we love you!


Dengs x Miles = BFF

"My bestfriend!" Dengs exclaimed as he wrapped his arms around Miles.