a day at the zoo

it was the school holidays last week, so as a treat to the kids, hubby and i took them to the zoo.

a few days before our trip, the kids were so excited, as always.

miggy wanted to visit the new kids station where they can play in the amazing wading pool. and eat kfc hahaha need i say more?

mikee kept saying that she wants to see the monkeys. she doesn't care about all the other animals. only the monkeys. when i asked her why, she said all the other animals will eat her. not bite. eat.

gabie is the most interesting one. when i asked him which animal he wants to see in the zoo, he said the tiger. then, he said, "mama, i want to touch the tiger!" ok, he's definitely not doing that!

on the day of our trip to the zoo, it started out as a very sunny day. it was too hot! lucky i brought an evian water spray to at least relieve us from the heat. but since it was too hot, we had to spray, i think, every 10 minutes ^_^

so, after watching an animal show and the polar bear feeding, we headed to the kids station and had lunch at kfc. all this time, the kids just can't wait to get over with lunch so they can go to the wading pool.

then, by the time we finished eating, it started to rain. and it never stopped. until we just decided to go home T_T poor kids, i guess i'll just have to bring them back next month.

we just arrived at the zoo ...


see mikee with her binoculars? she was so arte all the time, using it whenever we point at an animal ...


notice most of the pictures here are dark? well, we spent most of the time in the boat dock, waiting for the rain to stop ...


and here's mikee singing while we were waiting for the rain to stop in the boat dock ...


notice her song lyrics is mostly "we cannot go ... we cannot go" hahaha


oh! the kids did get to spend some time in the wading pool. that's when the rain let up a bit. a whopping ten minutes in the pool :)

and yes, gabie changed his mind as soon as we arrived at the tigers' den ...


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jonas brothers band - burning up

lately, i noticed the kids are so fond of this new music video in nickelodeon that they would all sing and dance once it's on tv. i found out that the song is by the jonas brothers band titled burning up. i've also read in somebody else's blog that this bond is the "in" song for kids and tweens. hmmm.

so, i searched for a video in youtube and made a video of mikee singing and dancing to it. of course, with gabie on the side as the guitarist.





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black & white

baa baa black sheep
you are very small ...
baa baa black sheep
you are very small!

~~ mikee's version of baa baa black sheep

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tomorrow

finally, here's a video of mikee singing tomorrow ...



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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!”

rock 'n roll!

here's another video of mikee singing what seems to be a rock 'n roll song. i have absolutely no idea where she heard this song. i don't even know if there is such a song.

a month after i took this video, my friends came to my house. while we were talking, mikee suddenly came out of the bedroom, carrying her guitar, and wearing her sunglasses. and she started singing the exact same song!

if you ask me, i think this could be her first composition!



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mikee's very first music video

i think we have a singer in the family. mikee started showing her interest in singing when she was only two years old.

here's a copy of the video i took of her while she was singing. actually, it's more of me singing in the background and her acting out in the video. anyway, just watch this. i think she's really cute here ... well, i'm the mommy, so of course, i'd say she's cute :)



please forgive my singing. as i said, mikee is the singer in the family. not me hehehe

oh yeah ... the song is a tagalog song, so really sorry to those who can't understand it ...

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