This time it is me whom will gonna send you a warm greeting from Azumi ★ My Lil Princess' Story

I hope you were able to spend time with your family and friends. Anzu and I together with my Mom went to a Christmas Party on the 23rd. We had an awesome and peaceful celebration during the Christmas Eve. And went to an Illumination Park on the Christmas Day.

Well, seriously, I think this has been the busiest Christmas I've ever had. We had a real tiring Christmas Shopping Rush and yet so lucky we got our xmas decors for 50% off. Hubby have to work so I did all the chores, from cleaning ( while Azumi kept on cluttering at times ) to eradicating all the clutters (which i havent finished yet but I have to be done before new year ), and christmas decorating. SO tiring and yet I had fun. Of course there's still something to look forward inspite of our cancelled homecoming. This would gonna be the first Christmas where Azumi would actually be able to enjoy Christmas with her cousin and family around. She was still 2 months old when we had our first Christmas

Sure Anzu had so much fun with her equally hyper cousin Ryukun.. I can't even take a decent photos of them because they were running around and shouting.

Take a peek and enjoy our simple Celebration.





Just to let you know, Ill be back to my normal blogging and bloghopping routine after New Year.. the clutters are still waiting for me to declutter them off.


Regardless, I hope you all are enjoying this holiday season and finding lots of time to slow down, relax and sit back with your dear loveones ! New Year will be on its way this week.

Be reminded of the many blessings in your life. Well, I have... I have much things to be thankful for !

I'm sure you're all busy with your christmas preps, shopping rush et al...ENJOY and Have Fun with your loveones..

Some may be alone for Christmas because of unavoidable circumstances like work or whatever ...  hey CHEER UP! There's so much good things ahead for you next year, that's fosure!

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I think my TOP 3 Mommy Moments entries are the ff:


Treasured Photos
I love this the most because it made me almost cry when I was making this entry. Looking at our (not so) old photos have indeed brought up good memories.

Let's Pretend
I always dream of having my own studio with lots of hi-end professional camera and kits tha's why I enjoy setting up a plot and take lots of photos of my lil girl. She was a cooperative baby model then but now, she avoids looking at my camera lol

Preggy Days
Being pregnant was the most fulfilling thing that ever happened in my entire life. I felt more beautiful, important and loved.

Our (my) second home is here in Tokyo Japan, where we are currently living a simple and happy family life. As of now, it is our main home. We will live here til our kids grow and can live on their own. We have plans of settling in the Philippines in the future but for now, we're happy and contented of going back home to PI atleast once or twice a year. Next year would be a good start for our lil girl because our planned visit to our dear country this month has been cancelled for some reasons.

We're really looking forward for Azumi's first meeting with the whole family on March. That is for sure. I really miss family and everything about the Philippines

How was your weekend? Ours was entirely spent in our home sweet home with the apple of our eyes, who else? Azumi of course... We had a lazy and yet a relaxing saturday considering the cold and crazy weather--a sunny morning shifting to a cloudy afternoon --, and then the next day, it was a cold cloudy Sunday. MIL and Maruchan (her lovely toy poodle) came over to have lunch with us.

Anyway, I just wanna share some photos of the Park Garden Cemetery we went last week. Okasan would always ask my hubby to take her in her late daughter's grave which is an hour way from our home.

We've been there many times and Im always amazed how they religiously maintain the beautiful garden. The graves are always clean, they're just like one of the decors in the garden. There's even a coffee shop in the 2nd floor of the building, with a full view of the beautiful park cemtery. Not a typical japanese cemetery which is usually in an elevated location, beside or behind a big temple.





The Lil Girl escorting her great Granny
( i wish she'd also meet her Great Granny in my Dad's side before she goes back to US, makakauwi pa ba kami this month? )

It was quite a year of learning --rolling, sitting, clapping, eating, crawling, communicating, standing, walking, — and a lot more things ahead of us. I can’t wait to see what great adventures are in store for us next year!
Momma

Im not sure if you can already recognize your baby's talents as early as 12 months or younger but I think this is the best time to encourage your child to explore without overwhelming her. She doesn't need to try everything right now but introducing her to activities she wouldn't otherwise know existed is just great thing to do.

As for our lil girl, oldies around us are encouraging her to be a budding artist. Granny Baba bought her art materials which are designed for babies. Crayons are not made of harmful chemicals so no need to worry if lil ANzu will suck them (for sure she always does before coloring)

I actually didn't know that babies could also wear Kimonos. I was surprised when Okasan told me months ago that she already have a Kimono for Azumi and she would like Anzu to wear it on New Year. I wondered how would a baby wear a Kimono? If you're not familiar with Japanese Kimonos, it is not simple as the Yukatas. People who wants to wear their kimonos usually have someone else help to put them on. It is not that simple again because that person should be either a Kimono Kitsuke (kimono dressing) Teacher or someone has a know-how in kimonos, from obi, ties, undergarments et al.

I got to experience wearing a real Kimono 2 years ago. It was indeed a great experience because not only I felt like a princess when the Kimono Teacher was putting them on to me, but also everybody in my family in Japan especially Okasan was so happy to see me wearing one of her daughter's Kimono which was never worned. She gave this to me as a graduation present ( I wore that Kimono on our graduation ceremony...). ---wish I could share more but we're talking about Azumi's kimono here lol
Anyway, the other day, Azumi was fitting her first Kimono. It wasn't like I imagined. It's easier to put on, no need to be assisted by a teacher. No obis, undergarments, etc. Designed for toddlers.

I thought I won't be able to join this week's mommy moments but awhile ago, while I was taking a break from cleaning our messy dining room, the lil girl suddenly took the vaccum and started to clean the floor. Of course she was only pretending but the thing is, she was trying to help lol.




I usually don't let her near me when I vaccum not only because of the flying dusts but also she either gets in my way or she plugs off the vacuum's switch. Only when Im done... I was quite surprise awhile ago coz she could finally carry it longer. Gosh my baby is indeed a little girl now...

Its really amazing when kids immitate adults. It's cute. Just like the past week, she has learned to put some of her toys in the basket. Pero syempre, its so early to tell if she's really cleaning or just immitating what she always see.

Another sets of awards that took me so long to post and acknowledge. Just to let you know that I always bookmark all the tags and links you give to my site. I still have pending Award posts but for now Im thanking the ff:



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