Looks like it’s all Manila Ocean Park post for tonight!

We spent all of our Saturday in Manila Ocean Park as a sort of celebration for Matt and Sean’s birthdays. Sean’s birthday was yesterday and Matt will be this coming Monday, March 1, so we decided why not celebrate in one day and let’s go somewhere.

So we did.

With nanay, me, lois, matt and sean all went to see the biggest aquarium park in the Philippines. We saw all sorts of fishes and other marine life in there. Huge fishes! There are also some custom cardboard boxes and designs that made the place looked much more pretty and interesting (with cardboard shares and all)

I think the kids enjoyed the trip… and the mermaid show.

Happy happy birthday to my Bunso, Sean! Happy birthday bunso!

In the morning we went to Angat and Neyko bought stuff for spaghetti, cake and ice cream.

It was unfortunate that I have to leave home today for work. I really was going to skip work today but when my ‘boss’ called and asks me to join the bridge call I have to come.

There’s this post on Blogging Parents about the 10 Best Ways to Amuse Toddlers and I took the liberty of enumerating them below with a little bit more explanation. If you have any other comments please do put it below. Thanks very much.

The list below are the things that we do with my boys. It’s in no particular order. I just wrote them down whichever pops out from my mind.

1. Pen, Crayons and Papers – Actually this is just “Paper, Ballpen!”. Matt always wants his pen and paper with him every time. For a 12 hour a day (awake state) I think he writes, draws and scrabble something at least 3 hours a day!
2. Play-dough – He loves Play-dough! This is his chance to release his creative self. He usually do shapes and letters (just like in pen and paper) but sometimes he also do animals and strange objects.
3. Yutube! – Kids today are high tech! When I say Youtube, I mean he’s using my laptop to browse the internet. When he was younger he would spend hours and hours in Youtube playing videos about alphabet, songs and numbers. Now he also do StumbleUpon, Kidzui and others.
4. Educational DVD, Cartoons etc. – Lately, aside from paper and ballpen Matt (and Sean)’s activity will always include watching Sponge Bob, Dora, Barney and Pixar/Walt Disney movies (Cars, Ice Age trilogy, Toy Story trilogy, Bugs Life etc).
5. Baths and Bath toys – They love bath time specially with tons of toys to play with.
6. Sandbox – It’s fine to have their hands dirty sometimes.. just make sure you clean up after.
7. Field trips – A trip to somewhere nice where the kids can walk, run and play around.
8. Play Tent / Play House – This is can be done indoors. We actually do this on our bed.
9. Road Trip – Put them all together in the car and drive around the block.
10. Playground – Some swing and see saw.

I am sure there are many other things that we can do to amuse and entertain our toddlers. The above list is just a few. What are your activities with your children that you do pretty often?

I bought a couple of DVD during my last day of work for the year 2009 (or maybe I’ll be reporting on Dec 29,30.. but I’m not sure).

Anyway, I bought a P100 Spongebob DVD, Php100 Jack and the Bean Stalk the real story and a Boxed DVD of Toy Story 1 and Toy Story 2 (Php550).

Today, in the morning, we watched Toy Story 1… after which we all went to Waltermart to get the grocery. In the afternoon, Ate and Ck and Kim went over and all of us saw Toy STory 2… they liked it and borrowed the first one.

Took this picture yesterday before we went out for grocery. Matt and Sean love Ice Age 3 movie, The Dawn of the Dinosaur! They have seen it like a thousand times!

Just want to note here that last week, while we were doing the grocery in SM Fairview, we bought this very cool Sponge Bob Stuff toy for Sean. He loves that show/character… that’s why we bought that one.

I remember when Matt was so hooked with Barney and Friends, we also bought him “Barney”.. then BJ then Baby Bob… We probably should buy that Star fish side kick of Sponge bob huh?

Sorry, this aint the super cure for the common cold.. My youngest child was sick couple of days back with a fever, runny nose and cold… Now he’s all better (except for the cold part) and anyway, the cure for common cold?? Well, I just wanted to have a fancy blog post title.

Anyway, we went to our family doctor june 22 to have Sean check out. His Pediatrician prescribed him a couple of cold meds and some antibiotic. Those are the things I wanted to share here… In case other daddies out there are searching about information about these drugs:

Amoxicillin - Amoxicillin (INN), formerly amoxycillin (BAN), is a moderate-spectrum, bacteriolytic, β-lactam antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections caused by susceptible microorganisms. It is usually the drug of choice within the class because it is better absorbed, following oral administration, than other β-lactam antibiotics.

Amoxicillin is to be taken every 6 hours apparently. 7am – 1pm – 7am. That’s the instruction.

Nasatapp Syrup – to be taken also every 6 hours for 5 days.. Nasatapp Syrup is the one for the cold, I think. I ain’t no doing any advertisements here.

For cough – Zobrixol

SYRUP
Children under 2 years : 2.5mL twice a day
Children 2 – 5 years : 2.5mL thrice a day
Children 6 – 12 years : 5mL 2-3 times a day
Adults & children over 12 years : 10mL thrice daily during the first 2-3 days, then 10mL twice daily or 5mL thrice daily.

Acute and chronic disorders of the respiratory tract with pathology increased mucus viscosity, such as acute and chronic bronchitis, asthmatoid bronchitis, bronchial asthma with disturbances of secretion elimination, bronchiectasis and to encourage elimination of phlegm during inflammation of the nasal cavity and throat.

I have a separate post about Sean’s christening here… so I wont tell all the information I told there here.. just the photo.

Here it is…

That’s the invitation..

Other Sean’s Photos after the jump..

Time flies indeed! Here is Sean now in his 9th month and it feels like yesterday when we took him out from the hospital. And yeah, 3 more months and he’ll be turning one year old! Another milestone, another proud father here.

Anyway, although it’s sad seeing Sean this skinny (no, he’s not taking Fenphedra, he’s been sick).. we are trying real hard to regain his lost weight.. and slowly, he is becoming active and a little heavier.

Three weeks. I ‘ve been away from my boys for 3 weeks now. I left the Philippines September 2 and now it’s the 25th of September here in Vancouver, Canada. I’m a homestay visitors here in a filipino family here in Burnaby.

My wife and I chat and video call every single day to lessen the homesickness. She also regularly sends me pcitures of my them specially my Matthew and Sean. And here’s their latest pictures:

They are so cute aren’t they? I miss them so much I can hire moving services and move myself back home if that’s possible but I have to finish the contract here at work.

Oh well.. let’s do it one day at a time.

Sean had his 3rd(?) Hepatitis A vaccination yesterday… Sorry, babies have so many vaccination that I lost count. It’s not just for hepa A. Apparently the vaccine was 5-in-1.. I just can’t recall the names of the other vaccination.

Will check the baby book later and post all the information I can find here.

Anyway, created this post just to share the pictures taken yesterday at the hospital… Sean and Eli pics…

It took us an hour just to get there and another hour to get back home from the hospital… If we could only afford to rent a plane.. or some jet charter company, commuting would be a breeze.