Swimming time

Hailey, Griffin and I swam in our new inflatable pool. It was a fun way to cool off this summer. Too bad, I think we got a little darker again. I was not able to take any pictures because I forgot to bring down the camera and I was already in the pool. I was not able to ask my mom to get it since she was not home. Hailey used the floating car as her walker in the pool. We swam for more than 2 hours. We got out because Hailey was sleepy already.

Hailey is 11 months

Hailey turned 11 months on April 20. At 11 months, she can stand on her own but she is kind of scared to try walking. When i ask her to walk to me, she reaches her hand out. She does not want to walk unless she is holding on to me. She calls me mama when she wants me. Mama is the only word she can say unless you count "nanana" which means she wants to nurse. She can point out on a picture mommy, daddy, and Griffin. She still loves watching commercials and political ads. Her favorite character is Dora. She gets so excited when she sees Dora on tv or computer or even just a sticker. She gets jealous of Griffin when he is near me. She just to move him out so that she would be the one next to me. Hailey loves the water. She enjoys swimming so much.

Summer outing at Acuatico

It was out first summer outing as a family, just the four of us. We went to Acuatico in Laiya, Batangas. We left the house at around 6 am. I carried Griffin to the car and he slept all the way to Acuatico. Hailey woke up around 30 minutes before we arrived at the resort. It was the first time for both Griffin and Hailey to go to the beach. Yes, in his almost 6 years of existence, Griffin has never been to a beach. In fact he has never experienced a summer outing till last Sunday. He actually loved being in the pool. He only stayed in the beach for a while to play in the sand. He enjoyed swimming specially now that he can hold his breath under water. He likes the deeper pool, the jacuzzi, which has water that reaches his neck. We swam twice, first after having breakfast then we had lunch and rested for a while in the room then returned to the pool at around 4 pm. Hailey also loves the water. She is not afraid to be in the pool. She even crawled on the fountain and near the ledge of the pool. We don't have much photos in our digicam but I brought a disposable waterproof camera which I still have to bring to the photo shop. It was a fun vacation but it would have been better if we had more company. Maybe we would return to Acuatico before school opens in June.

Broken hard disk

I am so sad that our external hard disk with all our photos and videos is broken. It broke because Hailey pushed it off the top of the CPU. I tried to have the data recovered but the problem is a mechanical one so it needs to be opened in a clean room. The data is probably still in it but to have it recovered is very expensive. I have emailed a data recovery company in Hong Kong. They offer free evaluation but I have to ship the hard disk to them. I asked for an estimate cost for the type of damage of the hdd and it is quite steep but I'm still contemplating on whether to try having it evaluated. It is so unfortunate that I did not back up our photos from August 2008 to February 2010. I have printouts though until April 2009 and was able to save May, June and July 2009 digital pictures. I am still so sad that Hailey's 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th month pictures are all gone. I don't even have a single picture of her Baptism. Now I can't do her baby book because I have lost so many pictures. It is doubly unfortunate that I was not able to printout any of her pictures. The set of photos that I was supposed to have printed were lost to our other hdd which crashed before the external hdd broke. It is a very hard lesson for me to learn that backing up is so important. There are so many memories in there that's why I am still hoping that I would still be able to recover them.

Griffin's Report Card

My mom got Griffin's report card last Friday. He got good grades.  He had an achievement award in academics, Happy Gram and an award in Chinese. He did not get the award for penmanship though but that's ok. He actually writes so neatly now. The other day, he wrote the numbers 1-30 on a yellow pad and his penmanship looked really good.

Second tooth

Hailey's second tooth started coming out last March 28. It is the lower right front tooth. She looks cuter, now that she has 2 cute little teeth.

Hailey is 10 months

Hailey turned 10 months last March 20. At 10 months she can easily cruise around the house. Her single tooth is slowly growing. She can even say "mama". She still loves commercials and likes Manny Villar's new ad. She waves her hands when she likes a certain song. She still loves eating and oftentimes is envious when she sees other people eating. Her hair is getting longer but is still spikey but at least it is possible to put a hair clip on her already. She can clap her hands when told to do so. She also waves her hand when you say hi or bye.