the singing bee

rated k is on right now (via tfc). they are featuring this lady who is asking for a once in a lifetime chance to have her own concert so that her family and friends can hear her singing.

after the lady said her plea, miggy blurted, “then, why don’t you just go to the singing bee!”

i didn’t even know that miggy was watching. he’s supposed to be doing his homework!

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gabie and the pupununus

“mama, i want pupununus!”

what??? what in the world is pupununus? do you have any idea what this is?

lately, i’ve had a lot of frustrations over this pupununus thingy. gabie would always ask for it. but, i have absolutely no idea what this is! this always leads to a lot of crying on gabie’s side. and as his mom, there’s nothing i can do because i really don’t know what it is. if you’re a parent of a toddler, or if you’ve had a toddler, i’m sure you can understand how frustrating this kind of situations are.

according to miggy, gabie is talking about a tv show from nickelodeon. to solve this dillema, today, i searched the nickelodeon site. but i can’t find any “pupununus” show.

luckily, miggy is right beside me and he pointed at the right show. and of course, the title is not pupununus. did i really expect that my 4year old would know the correct title?

finally! so pupununus is actually “tak and the power of juju”. and now, i also know why gabie calls it pupununus. as described by the nickelodeon website, the show is about tak who is a shaman’s assistant from the pupununu tribe.

whew, now that's such a relief! no more frustrating nights with gabie :0)

so, you parents out there, if ever your toddler asks for pupununus, now you know what it is. it’s tak and the power of juju.

but, if your toddler asks for tikawiraowa, sorry, can’t help you with that. i have no idea, too!

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the sun will come out

when i don’t feel like reading a bedtime story for the kids, i’d just sing songs for them. one of the songs that i always sing for them is “tomorrow”, the song from the broadway musical “annie”.

two weeks ago, i finally found a video of the 1982 annie movie in youtube. the kids watched it and they loved it, especially mikee. she asked me to replay the opening credits so many times that after the fifth time miggy would always say “not again! mama, it’s already annoying. please, not again!”

from the day mikee saw the movie, she would always sing “tomorrow”. even when she’s playing, i’d hear her singing it. i guess she heard the song so many times that she could sing the whole song by herself.

and from the time she saw the movie …

every morning, when she wakes up, she’d start the day with “mama, today the sun will come out.”

and in the evening, she’d end the day with, “mama, the sun is not out now. but, the sun will come out tomorrow! tomorrow! i love ya, tomorrow … you’re only a day away!”

what's your name?

when miggy was only 1 year old, i bought him a vcd copy of the movie shrek ... he loved it so much that he would watch it over and over and over again ...

actually, i thought he loved shrek so much that whenever anybody asks him "what's your name?", he'd always answer "shrek" ... of course, the person who asked him would always laugh after hearing his answer ... some would even fondly call him shrek ...

then one day, while he was watching shrek for the nth time, i watched it with him ... this time, i paid attention to the movie ... then it came to the part where donkey asked shrek, "what's your name?" ... shrek answered, "shrek" ...

aha, that's it!

that was a lightbulb moment for me ... so, that is the reason why miggy always says shrek when he hears "what's your name?" ... i think, in the movie, shrek was asked for his name so many times that the question stuck into miggy's head and he thought that the answer to that question is always "shrek" hahaha

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