Earth Day & More

Earth day was a blast! We hung out with Aunty Jen & Dengs and brought them to the store to choose seeds to plant with Papo. Miles chose watermelon seeds and Dengs chose lettuce. Since Papo is leaving for a few months in the P.I., it would be a great way for them to spend time with him, learning about the earth and also from Papo since he's the one with a green thumb in the fam. I talked to Papo about planting with Miles. He said he enjoyed having a conversation with him while they dug the hole and put seeds into the earth. This is what Papo told me...

Miles: Papo, did you plant all these flowers and trees?

Papo: Yes I did but I'm getting old so can you help take care of it?

Miles: When you pass away?

Papo: (laughs) Yes but also when I'm not strong enough and when I'm in the Philippines.

Miles: I'll take care of them because when I grow up I want to be a mechanic and a gardener. So when your car is broken, I will fix it too.

Besides planting, they also got to choose a cactus (low maintenance for kids!) and a pot to take home. Miles named his Spikes. We also did this celery & food coloring activity to show them how their cactus plants & trees drink water. So this morning, the first thing Miles said was, "Let's check the celery!" And voila, red leaves and all...

Besides Earth day activities, we've also been busy learning how to count beyond 20 as well as in Spanish and Tagalog. He's been thinking about language heavily:

Miles: I can count in Spanish and English. Can you count in Hawaii?

Me: No I can't. But dad can.

Miles: Cause he was born there? Where were you born?

Me: Chicago.

Miles: Where's that?

Me: Also in America.

Miles: How do you count in Chicago?

Me: They speak English there too...

Miles: Oh, then I can count in English, Spanish, and in Chicago. But my favorite is in Spanish. Unoth, doth, treths, cuatroths (he has a lisp!)

In other news, we are pretty bummed out about Guru passing away. So to commemorate him, Miles and I practiced our footwork to his albums. Wanna makes sure Miles is up on raw Hip Hop music. For our Wednesday Accepted Eclectic show, we did a tribute to Guru and Miles was our guest host. He did a GREAT job--and so did his dad--who mixed the tracks live...It's up for download too so lucky YOU :)

http://www.alldayplay.fm/episodes/episode-7-rest-in-peace-guru

Runny Noses.

Mama: Thanks for sharing your cold with me.
Miles: When I get better, I'll share my better with you.

Wee!

Mama's night out was a great one (thanks for the bday gift Ninang Erica)! Nothing beats LIVE music. This was the icing on the cake, meeting Yukimi!


This Sunday is also gonna be a good night in music with Miles' dad spinning alongside Skeme Richards (Rock Steady Crew) and DJ Supreme La Rock (Seattle) at the touring All 45s party, Hot Peas & Butta!


Still in a haze from last nights show so we started the morning with Miles & Darrien and I dancing to Little Dragon in the kitchen as we cooked our breakfast together. Darrien seasoning the eggs, Miles making the rice, & I was on the turkey bacon, followed by a whole day in the sun.

Tuesday!

I wish I could take Miles with me tonight to see one of my favorite bands. He loves them too, especially this song...


Miles has been having fun at home and with both Justin and I working from home. I'm cherishing these days before I plug into the matrix by the end of the month. Last night, as a family, we came up with 6 important rules and wrote them down. Miles copied the letters on his own pages. This is what we came up with:
1. Respect yourself & others.
2. Express your feelings.
3. Be nice to others.
4. Listen.
5. Share.
6. Clean up.
After we wrote it down, we went over each rule and we made little funny skits about doing the opposite of each rule, followed by abiding each rule. It was pretty funny. Miles enjoyed seeing me make kalat and also be mean to his dad. He was rolling on the floor, laughing. But the great thing is--is that he remembered each rule because of our little skits. Today, he reminded his dad about rule #4 after hearing me tell Jus that he has selective hearing with me. Ha!

It's been beautiful outside, we've enjoyed such a happy weekend, celebrating Uncle Fernan's & Uncle Jesse's beautiful wedding, Justin's 30th birthday, and Darrien's 4th birthday, grubbin' at Papalote's.



Loving the sunshine and blue skies...give thanks!





(Thanks Kimmy & Perci for sharing!)

Disneyland & Back

Miles and Darrien had a fresh and fun weekend vacation to Disneyland. Those boys are lucky to have two sets of parents and we are so lucky to have them-and we are also thankful to be able to trade off with Aunty Jengs & Uncle Ewick. Anyway, the cool thing was also that they got to spend time with Lucy & Ben Isaac too! So many funny stories and pictures sent to me via Aunty Teresa and Uncle Eric (thank you!!) while Miles' dad and I were giggin the weekend away...


...hard work i tell ya. Ha!


...doesn't that look like hard work?

Anyway, this is pretty much what I looked forward to getting every now & then while I missed those boys...








So happy Miles is back. The festivities continued with a playdate at Golden Gate Park with Gani & Kahlil (and an adult date with Aunty Kimmy, Aunty Krish, & Uncle Perci)! So good to be around my SFState fam! It's amazing how much time has passed, and how much we have grown, and also remained the same in ways...really refreshing to be around progressive parents! Alleluia, give thanks. Why they gotta live in L.A. area though?


And it don't stop...it's Justin's 30th birthday Saturday! :) Tune into Stanford's KZSU Sunday 6pm-9pm on Kevvy Kev's Bang the Drum show! You'll hear the Jus vs. Cel throw down :)