A First time Mom's Rants and Some

A first time Mom’s joy of her child’s milestone are the greatest gift she can receive. All moms are proud of her child’s growth regardless if it’s ahead of what’s in that book, just in time or a little late. Seeing their first smiles, first crawl, first time of standing up on their own, first time they walk on their own and so on.
Lately, I have heard that James' kababata is already walking. She was a week younger than James and at this age of 11 months, she's walking by herself. It has been with a heavy heart hearing people saying to James "bakit si ganto naglalakad na, bakit ikaw hindi pa?". It was quiet annoying on my part because I don't want to put pressure on James. I want him to learn how to do things on his own. I know James can walk, he does when holding on to something. He was just afraid to try and probably lacks a little practice on it.

So what I have done is, when we were outside of the house and I feel tired of carrying him, I put him down, holding his both hands while I stand on his back and let him walk. He is walking naman. When I feel that he is getting used to it, I leave his other hand while still holding the other and let him get his own balance. He is still walking although he was a little afraid sometimes. Para kasi syang lasing maglakad, maybe because he can't get his balance yet. He is also walking too slow. He will walk for about 4 steps then will stop, look around him and just stand there. I often tell him, "Lika na." One of the motivations I am giving him na lang are the cats. Heheheh. When I see one, I told him to walk towards the cat. He follows naman.

Admittedly, I can only practice him on weekends and during the time that I arrived home and he is still awake. We will walk around the house together. Nanay can't get to practice with him because she is too weak to walk with James. Nanay is diabetic so there were times that she's not feeling well. With that, I accepted the fact that he will be walking on his own when he is ready for it. I just can’t understand some people who will say those unwelcome comments about how my baby is growing. It’s not that I don’t accept suggestions or comments but the way it was said does the trick diba? I am the type of person who hates comparison so much so what do you expect from me? I don’t want my baby being compared with someone else too. But anyway, I don’t want to dwell much into that kasi it wasn’t a good sign of a healthy blogger eh! Wow! Gumaganon?! Hahahaha! All I can say is to let it go and let them mind their own business. Am I right or I am right? Heheheh.

I am still into process of planning James’ birthday party. I was able to book the party place, balloon decor and the cake na so I’ll go down with the other small details like invitations and all. I actually made my own invitation. I was quite inspired with Mrs. Mommyholics posts about DIY-ing some of his baby’s birthday so sya na ang peg ko! Hehehe. I am so inlove with her DIYs talaga. I will ask her permission to make gaya in some of it. Hehe.

By the way, My shift has changed again that made me go uneasy about my routine. I have been trying to establish a routine pero ang hirap kasi every 3 weeks, my shift changes. Take note, it has changed pa to 10am to 7pm kung kelan nag aasikaso ako ng mga details ng party ni James. Hayyy.. I was hoping kasi to have some time sana in the afternoon so I can go to Divi and check some stuffs that I can use eh. I’ll let you know in the coming days. =)

Eto pa, I was supposed to attend the Baby Sign Language event on October 4^th in the afternoon and Ogalala in the morning however, I am really hesitant to bring James with me with those events. At first, the Ogalala’s event is in the morning which was James’ morning nap time so I guess he won’t enjoy much of it. I am ready to attend na sana the Baby Sign Language workshop however, James woke up at 2pm na from his morning nap. He usually wakes up at 7am then will have his nap at 11am to 2pm na. At the same time, it was raining in the afternoon din. No one will look after him pa because Nanay left to go to my sister’s house. I really want to go alone sana kasi it was a workshop and I know if I’ll have James with me, I can’t participate well. I have nobody to go with us naman since Daryl has a 6 day work week. I was left without a choice. Di bale, I know there’s always a next time. =)

Also, can you help me? I was planning to buy my own domain name na eh. I don’t know how this works. If you are kind enough to help, please send me an email to ryljen.24@gmail.com. Thanks! Thanks and many thanks!! =)