A Boy Mom's World

  I have been a mom for almost 5 years now. Dylan will be turning 5 this February while Mason is turning 3 in June.  As I journey through this path called motherhood, here are the things that I have learned having to take care a 4 year old and a 2 year old. 1. At this age, they are very explorative and wants to test their abilities, so they will always go up anywhere they can climb and try if they will be able to jump from there. At first they always give me mini heart attacks, I try to stop them from doing it, but they just can't be stopped. I just let them try and I just make sure they are safe and remind them to just be careful with what they are doing. We already had one trip to the ER, nothing serious though, just wanted to make sure that everything is ok the time - will make another entry for what made us go to the ER. 😅 2. 2 year olds are super cute. Everything that they do are cute - I cannot seem to be mad at 2 years old even though they ruin everything, throw food, ...

 I have two very active boys and sometimes I don't even know what to do with their energy. 😅 They love to run, climb, jump, sing, dance, play pretend, run, jump and jump again. The house never seems to stay quiet because if it is not them who are shouting, it will be mom shouting at them not to climb on the window or the table. Most of the time I cannot even hear myself think. So what do we do with all these energy? We sometimes take them outside. Aside from going to the park or the playground, we take them for a little ride and bring them to: 1. Kidzoona - Here they get to play whatever they want without any need for mom to shout because it is very safe for them.  2. Kindercity - I haven't been inside this one but their daddy said that it is a lot bigger than kidzoona and very tiring for adults. 😂 This is Dylan's current favorite indoor play area, ideal for bigger kids, at least 4 yo, I guess.  3. Theme Park (Enchanted Kingdom) - Last year we purchased a 2-year pass an...

  Traveling has always been our favorite bonding as a family. Both me and my husband's family loves to travel (local), So when we got back together in 2015 and already have the means to do it, we packed our bags and just went anywhere we could think of.  Our eldest son's first travel was when he was only 3 months old. We applied for his passport the time we got his PSA Birth Certificate - he was one month old. From there, he was able to travel locally and abroad.  Traveling with a baby is never a walk in a park, so why are we doing this?  Here are some of the reasons why we travel with our kids and why you should too.  1. Traveling is good for our Mental and Physical Health. Traveling reduces stress, improves our moods, and it generally enhance our physical strengths and makes us more mentally agile as we both use our minds and bodies to figure out how to navigate a new town or city. 2. Traveling improves our communication skills. When we travel to a different c...

We did not completely remove screen time in our house, we still let them watch sometimes, but is now very controlled. They are no longer allowed to watch on their own. Before they have access to youtube kids and they can watch whatever they feel like watching. They learned a lot by watching, but it is not worth it (for me). All of the things that they see on the screen, we can do with them. I only let them watch 1 movie a week - in Disney+. We sometimes watch together, we choose a family movie.  Here are the Top 7 Activities I let my boys do everyday.  1. Pretend Restaurant - My boys love to pretend that they have a restaurant and ask me to order food from them and they will prepare it for me. They use play doh to make food such as fries, burger, ice cream, fried chicken, etc. I have to pretend to order, eat, and pay and then do it a hundred more times. 😆 2. Pretend Hospital - Sometimes I am the doctor, but most of the time, I am the patient that always needs vaccine. 😅 3. S...

 My kids stopped having screen time since November 2022. It started when we lost our internet connection for a day (read the whole story here ). Here are some notable changes or improvements that happened when they stopped watching TV and using ipads. 1. They are more active. Instead of just sitting down, eyes glued to the TV or tablet, they ran more and I think they got more athletic. 😅 They can climb anywhere and jump from there, sometimes I get surprised on how they can jump so high! 2. They get to play with all their toys. Our kids have lots of toys, mostly gifts from relatives and grandparents. Those toys were rarely being played, but now they have time to enjoy their toys. 3. When they get to play with their toys, they get to be more creative. Their games and pretend plays get more and more fun and elaborate. Their imagination gets wider everyday. Sometimes our floor is lava, sometimes they are doctors and nurses, policemen, race car driver, and many more. The house is a mes...

  Our sons rarely ask for screen time anymore. They usually ask to watch TV every morning and afternoon after they take a nap. I let them watch at 10am up to lunch time cause they like it and I can do the things that I need to do while they are watching, the same in the afternoon, I let them watch from 5pm until bedtime, I know, I know, that is a lot of screen time, but it is what makes them behave - or so I thought.  It is only until the time we lost our internet connection for a day, they cannot watch and didn't have a choice, because we do not have cable TV. For a whole day they didn't have screen time. They kept on asking and I just told them there's no internet connection and they went on to play together.  By the end of the day, I was surprised that they  survived without screen time, as in really surprised. I thought they will get bored and give me hard time the whole day but they didn't. They just played with their toys together, they played with their ...

 50 Facts About Me I was born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's. 💕 I am born left handed, but my mom forced me to use my right hand to write. I write with my right hand now, but with everything else, I use my left hand. ✋ I am the eldest of 3 children. 👧 My age gap with our youngest is 16 years. ☺ I graduated at the age of 20. 🎓  I got my first job in a bank a month after graduation. 🏦  I left my first job after only 4 months. 🙅 Got my second job at another bank a month after resigning from the first one. 🏦 I didn't declare my first job in my interview with the second job. 😐 Left my second job after 1 year and 9 months. 👋 I didn't look for another job - I was unemployed for 9 months. 🚩 After being broke for 9 months, finally had the motivation to look for a job - found one in the insurance industry, stayed there for almost 6 years. 🏢 I left my job in the insurance servicing department to become a Financial Advisor. 🌟 I lived in the South (of Manila) almost ...