We had an appointment with Dr. E last Monday for Vera’s scheduled vaccine. She was prescribed to drink 1 tsp. vitamin everyday and was advised to give her at least 8 oz. of formula milk a day since Vera just feeds from me at night.

What help do I need? Well, Vera doesn’t like powdered formula milk. She ‘d rather have the liquid no-water-needed formula milk. That was then and the problem now is that, we don’t have liquid base milk for toddlers here in the Philippines (if we do have, please let me know). Dr. B, Vera’s pediatrician in Michigan, actually allowed Vera to drink fresh cow’s milk when she turns 1. If we’re still there, that wouldn’t be a problem since there are lot of cow’s milk to choose from and at a cheaper price. Unlike here, the worth of one bottle or one carton of fresh milk is actually equivalent to about half gallon milk there. But if she’d rather have fresh milk than powdered formula milk, then I think I’ll have to surrender to what she wants. But for now, we really have to try to teach her to drink powdered milk. Or do you have any suggestions? Please, please… I really need some.

The other thing I needed help from is how to administer Vera’s vitamin, she doesn’t like it too. She screams and wiggles a lot! Sigh! What am I suppose to do?

HELP!!!

I need to come up with a healthy diet plan for me, hamey and Vera. The problem is, I love food, but I’m not a good cook. No! I don’t cook! I can’t cook! But I have to! I specially need to learn how to cook healthy food. Hamey’s family has hypertension, mine has diabetes. It’s a bad combination for Vera.

When hamey was assigned in the US for a work assignment, I once or twice tried to cook new dishes. There were also times I cooked simple Filipino dishes but all my efforts seems to be futile. Adobo na lang d ko pa magawa! But mind you, I can proudly say that I am good when it comes to making/baking cake and cooking pasta dishes. I do it from scratch!

Anyway, I need a menu plan for hamey and Vera. I don’t know where to start. I’d like to try cooking for them but I think I really haven’t overcome my fear of it. At least it’s not Mageirocophobia. It’s more like fear of failing, fear of rejection and fear of wasting food. O well, I have to try.

I think what I really need most is a chef, hehe!

Yipee! We are going on a vacation this weekend. For me, it’s been a long time since I was able to set foot on a beach (not counting the one in Batangas). The last time we had our vacation was 2 years ago, year before I got pregnant. This will be our first with Vera. Hope she’ll love it as much as we love going to the beach.

Side kwento (story). We were suppose to go to Pearl Farm Davao Last February 2006. We already bought our tickets but we have to return 2 or 3 days after getting it. Why? We learned that I am pregnant. After almost 2 years of waiting, the oldies young at heart won’t allow me to travel! Well, we understand them, they were just concern since we have been waiting for this to happen! It was all sulit (worth it)!

I’ll post some pictures when we get back. I’m definitely going to get a tan!

Ok, what am I going to write. Let me see…

Let me tell you something about myself as a wife and a mom.

Hubby, who I fondly call hamey, and I got married in May 2004. We’ve been dating since August 1997. I was a career woman then but resigned from work a month before our wedding. One reason I decided to do it is because I was diagnosed to have reproductive problems and so I felt I need time to ‘concentrate’ and relax to be able to conceive.

In early 2005, we started seeing doctors for our problem. Third quarter of the year, I got depressed and stopped my medications (for conceiving) and hand all my problems to the Lord.

February 2006, we discovered that I was pregnant and going to give birth late September or early October.

October 2006, Vera was born and our family is complete.