Saturday, January 05, 2008
oops she did it again
my paparazzi sister - Marliz _ did it again! spent the morning capturing my lovable 3 week old baby's expressions.. great shots, here's a few!
Friday, January 04, 2008
meet my zoie!
f u hadn't guessed it yet, YES, I ALREADY GAVE BIRTH TO A HEALTHY, BEAUTIFUL BABY. meet my very own princess, angel: sophia marie gabrielle tapayan velasco! 
woke up on december 14 with menstrual cramps that continued all throughout the day. sister marliz panicked and kept on fidgeting asking if we are to go to the hospital or not. decided to wait until it really hurts, wouldn't want to face those grumpy nurses telling me to come back another day. so did yoga and waited for ronald to come home. after a lot of prodding from my bestfriend ai and from a now panicky marliz, we decided to go to the hospital. and guess what? i got to face the monster resident! as in! super kainis.. she was so horrible, she told me to go home because i was only just 1cm like i wasted her all too precious time. so we went home, with me thinking i never want to go back again and telling my husband that yes, i will just give birth at home.. call the ambulance after!
by 2 am the pain was already unbearable.. i was soo sleepy that i'd drift off but get awaken by super painful contractions with intervals of 10 minutes, 7 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes.. when it came to 3 minute interval, i was already doing a lot of lamaze breathing that Dea had decided to wake Marliz up for us to go to another drive to the hospital. the dreadful resident was still there and even had the nerve to ask me why i came back.. that i was just two cm away. she said that it would still take me 2 or 3 days to get to 10cm. i could have slapped her if i wasn't in too much pain! contractions continued... sobrang sakit!! i had to grope the table next to me. sad with psh, u get to have labor on ur own.. no husband, no sisters, no other relatives or friends allowed. it's just you and you alone. hahai! by 10am, i was already on 7 cm and a few minutes after that 8, then 9, then 10! off to the delivery room! pretty fast huh? that resident was dead wrong. by 10:47am after a lot of grunting and shouting of "mommmy!!!!" i heard the first cries of my wonderful baby!
stressful sleep-driven but definitely HAPPY days followed. zoie either breastfeeding, sleeping, crying and enduring endless picture taking sessions with mommy, daddy and the paparazzie aunties mabel and marliz! =)
woke up on december 14 with menstrual cramps that continued all throughout the day. sister marliz panicked and kept on fidgeting asking if we are to go to the hospital or not. decided to wait until it really hurts, wouldn't want to face those grumpy nurses telling me to come back another day. so did yoga and waited for ronald to come home. after a lot of prodding from my bestfriend ai and from a now panicky marliz, we decided to go to the hospital. and guess what? i got to face the monster resident! as in! super kainis.. she was so horrible, she told me to go home because i was only just 1cm like i wasted her all too precious time. so we went home, with me thinking i never want to go back again and telling my husband that yes, i will just give birth at home.. call the ambulance after!by 2 am the pain was already unbearable.. i was soo sleepy that i'd drift off but get awaken by super painful contractions with intervals of 10 minutes, 7 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes.. when it came to 3 minute interval, i was already doing a lot of lamaze breathing that Dea had decided to wake Marliz up for us to go to another drive to the hospital. the dreadful resident was still there and even had the nerve to ask me why i came back.. that i was just two cm away. she said that it would still take me 2 or 3 days to get to 10cm. i could have slapped her if i wasn't in too much pain! contractions continued... sobrang sakit!! i had to grope the table next to me. sad with psh, u get to have labor on ur own.. no husband, no sisters, no other relatives or friends allowed. it's just you and you alone. hahai! by 10am, i was already on 7 cm and a few minutes after that 8, then 9, then 10! off to the delivery room! pretty fast huh? that resident was dead wrong. by 10:47am after a lot of grunting and shouting of "mommmy!!!!" i heard the first cries of my wonderful baby!
stressful sleep-driven but definitely HAPPY days followed. zoie either breastfeeding, sleeping, crying and enduring endless picture taking sessions with mommy, daddy and the paparazzie aunties mabel and marliz! =)
update! new year, new beginnings
funny how the last entry ended with me saying that i will be religiously blogging from then on and then had nothing, no blog, not even a word, written the next days or weeks or months after it. hahahahha.. sounds like a bad deja vu of new year resolutions. makes me remember an episode on friends where rachel says her new year resolution was to write on her diary everyday and had to show only that first page. hahahaha.. nway, i thot i would have super much vacant time on my hands that i would be bored to blog everyday or even every other hour. how wrong i was. if u know me well enough, ud rightly guess that that extra time was very well spent.. sleeping! hihihihi!
but then again looking back, i guess i did have time but either spent it on all other things. i did was able to squeeze in one entry tho' which i was not able to post here, only in my multiply account. for a flashback, here was what it said..
october 16, 2007
been a month and a half.. hmm.. what have i done lately? let's see..
fireworks in the pan. i now cook, bilibitornot! i didn't think cooking could cause so many accidents. they say that frying is the easiest thing to do and i absolutely disagree. it's horrifying! and i hate mantika! it's ruining my kikay skin. i can't understand why it decides to blast when i'm near. people should probably wear not aprons but sweaters when frying. heck, i'll take sunburns from lying in the beach than from these fireworks anytime. am looking forward to making more vegetable dishes. the book says that the best time to start kids on eating on veggies is when they are still on your tummy. they can taste the food so hopefully zui will like eating nutritious ampalaya when she gets older.
series marathon. when i'm not wrestling with the frying pan, you'll probably see me ensconced in the sofa or lying in bed watching an eclectic collection of series. i'm done with america's next top model (this should be good. hopefully my daughter wouln't be so maarte with me watching this while being pregnant with her). alias (as much as she should be kikay and beautiful, i hope sophia learns to kick butt like sydney bristow). house (we would love for her to be a doctor, and House is the best ever.. except for the misery thing.) desperate housewives (my sister loves the show. i try to avoid it as much as possible tho'. too much deceit, lies and controversy on this show. not to mention the bitter line on phil med profs) reruns of disney cartoons (heck, what can i say? i never get tired of sleeping beauty and cinderella. memorized each line na! =) i watch abs in between but get agitated with kokey. the mascot looks bad, as in maot oi. i keep on wondering why they are extending the story, it should have been over weeks ago. hahai.. wla naba mas nice looking maskot na mahimo?!!
writing. i remember promising my kulit english teacher in college that yes i will work for the school paper and remember not going through with it. hahai... i knew i promised but they made me choose between the lasallian movement and the school paper, and i think i like performing than writing those days so i waved babye to them. so now i'm making up for lost time and am working on my penchant for writing. gitaya na ako makina sa utok! bitaw oi. i'm trying to hit two birds with one stone here. making sure that dli ko matay-an and earning at the same time. it's a good plan. i've made two dozen articles on coffee last month and it has sent me craving for starbucks. hahai, i hope the next topics would be interesting.
house cleaning. i've been trying to figure out how to place things in the apartment for weeks now and i still haven't had my final feng shui on it yet. too many things. i guess that shouldn't be a surprised since there are 5 different unique individuals residing here. i just wish i can figure out something to sync things. hmmmm.... maybe i should start on christmas shopping and start decorating the place with bright lights. lighten up the mood.. christmas time na! pinaskuhan nko ha
budgeting. being the accountant and the OC that i am, it is no surprise that i am still hung up on bookkeeping. i have time to note even the little things now. keeping notes on grocery shopping, bills, laundry, credit cards... now i know that 3 bottles of mineral h20 could last us for 9-10 days. talk about establishing reorder points. =)
housewife duty. it is not rocket science to figure out that boys definitely live differently from women. get used to seeing shirts and cds cluttered around the room. i remember reading a quote just today: "we relate to each other because we are similar. we learn from each other because we are different". it's not so bad. and i am learning a lot from Ronald. it's good to have someone keep my stubborn tendencies in place. married life so far is a bliss with all the learnings and arguments that you get a daily dose of. what's life without imperfections.. probably too boring for my taste.
studying.. waaaaaaaaa.. i haven't started on this yet and the first semester is almost over. my ex-classmates are having their finals this week. got a lot of reviewing to do. starting is always the hardest part. you need to set your "mojo" (as goldie so explicitly puts it) i figured i'll start with constitutional law. basic stuff. let's deal with the family code -- marriages and annulments and criminal minds (revised penal code) later..
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....probably the one thing i've mastered. hahahahahha.. sleeping! people might think i've gotten fat kay ga"cge lng ug lubog" but then again, i'm not. not even. i got sick pa with colds which i'm still curing with water and calamansi na aslom raba kaau.. =(
oh well. it's almost lunch. got to get things in order and start my tasks for the day na.. unsa gali to?!!
but then again looking back, i guess i did have time but either spent it on all other things. i did was able to squeeze in one entry tho' which i was not able to post here, only in my multiply account. for a flashback, here was what it said..
october 16, 2007
been a month and a half.. hmm.. what have i done lately? let's see..
fireworks in the pan. i now cook, bilibitornot! i didn't think cooking could cause so many accidents. they say that frying is the easiest thing to do and i absolutely disagree. it's horrifying! and i hate mantika! it's ruining my kikay skin. i can't understand why it decides to blast when i'm near. people should probably wear not aprons but sweaters when frying. heck, i'll take sunburns from lying in the beach than from these fireworks anytime. am looking forward to making more vegetable dishes. the book says that the best time to start kids on eating on veggies is when they are still on your tummy. they can taste the food so hopefully zui will like eating nutritious ampalaya when she gets older.
series marathon. when i'm not wrestling with the frying pan, you'll probably see me ensconced in the sofa or lying in bed watching an eclectic collection of series. i'm done with america's next top model (this should be good. hopefully my daughter wouln't be so maarte with me watching this while being pregnant with her). alias (as much as she should be kikay and beautiful, i hope sophia learns to kick butt like sydney bristow). house (we would love for her to be a doctor, and House is the best ever.. except for the misery thing.) desperate housewives (my sister loves the show. i try to avoid it as much as possible tho'. too much deceit, lies and controversy on this show. not to mention the bitter line on phil med profs) reruns of disney cartoons (heck, what can i say? i never get tired of sleeping beauty and cinderella. memorized each line na! =) i watch abs in between but get agitated with kokey. the mascot looks bad, as in maot oi. i keep on wondering why they are extending the story, it should have been over weeks ago. hahai.. wla naba mas nice looking maskot na mahimo?!!
writing. i remember promising my kulit english teacher in college that yes i will work for the school paper and remember not going through with it. hahai... i knew i promised but they made me choose between the lasallian movement and the school paper, and i think i like performing than writing those days so i waved babye to them. so now i'm making up for lost time and am working on my penchant for writing. gitaya na ako makina sa utok! bitaw oi. i'm trying to hit two birds with one stone here. making sure that dli ko matay-an and earning at the same time. it's a good plan. i've made two dozen articles on coffee last month and it has sent me craving for starbucks. hahai, i hope the next topics would be interesting.
house cleaning. i've been trying to figure out how to place things in the apartment for weeks now and i still haven't had my final feng shui on it yet. too many things. i guess that shouldn't be a surprised since there are 5 different unique individuals residing here. i just wish i can figure out something to sync things. hmmmm.... maybe i should start on christmas shopping and start decorating the place with bright lights. lighten up the mood.. christmas time na! pinaskuhan nko ha
budgeting. being the accountant and the OC that i am, it is no surprise that i am still hung up on bookkeeping. i have time to note even the little things now. keeping notes on grocery shopping, bills, laundry, credit cards... now i know that 3 bottles of mineral h20 could last us for 9-10 days. talk about establishing reorder points. =)
housewife duty. it is not rocket science to figure out that boys definitely live differently from women. get used to seeing shirts and cds cluttered around the room. i remember reading a quote just today: "we relate to each other because we are similar. we learn from each other because we are different". it's not so bad. and i am learning a lot from Ronald. it's good to have someone keep my stubborn tendencies in place. married life so far is a bliss with all the learnings and arguments that you get a daily dose of. what's life without imperfections.. probably too boring for my taste.
studying.. waaaaaaaaa.. i haven't started on this yet and the first semester is almost over. my ex-classmates are having their finals this week. got a lot of reviewing to do. starting is always the hardest part. you need to set your "mojo" (as goldie so explicitly puts it) i figured i'll start with constitutional law. basic stuff. let's deal with the family code -- marriages and annulments and criminal minds (revised penal code) later..
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....probably the one thing i've mastered. hahahahahha.. sleeping! people might think i've gotten fat kay ga"cge lng ug lubog" but then again, i'm not. not even. i got sick pa with colds which i'm still curing with water and calamansi na aslom raba kaau.. =(
oh well. it's almost lunch. got to get things in order and start my tasks for the day na.. unsa gali to?!!
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