It’s been awhile since I made any decent post. I’ve been busy with work and family.

One of the blessings of working from home is you having to witness your child’s development first hand. I’ve heard countless stories on how awesome it felt when a parent saw their child did something for the first time, oftentimes you’d dismiss the parents as easy-to-please types. But when it’s your turn to experience such joy the feeling is overwhelming. So overwhelming in fact that it hurts your chest when you can’t blurt it out openly without sounding cuckoo.

You see I work from home and the only social interaction I get is with my clients (over the phone or via the internet) or when Maan is around. I try to make a conversation with Yana but oftentimes I don’t know if she understands what I’m saying or she’s just being cute and smiles at me at every glance.

So where do I unload? isn’t it obvious, I’m writing this post right now. Cousin Sheryl thinks it’s pathetic, I disagree but she is a party animal so I can’t really blame her hehehe (peace out cuz). Plus, I don’t dig crowds, I’d prefer to stay home rather than goto some wild party. What I do miss, is entertaining folks in our place.

When we were in Curacao we used to have tequila binge-drinking gatherings at our place. Our friends would bring their guitars and we’d take turns playing good old love songs. If our neighbors were around we’d invite them over and everybody was cool about it.

I remember this one time when Maan was so drunk she started asking everyone how many fingers she had, in Spanish!? Man that was so funny. That’s why I love my wife so much, she knows how to have a good time. My liver got screwed up though, that I don’t miss hehehe.

Nowadays I get a different high. Everyday Yana learns something new. She’s adding more words to her vocabulary, she can operate our home theater with ease, she can pick a dvd she likes and clean up the dvd pile when she’s done looking for her pick, she can clean-up her toys when told to; and a whole lot of other small things. It may seem petty to some but to me that is simply astonishing. It is a high knowing that my baby is no longer a baby but person in her own right.

She still does a lot of silly things and when I try to remind her of that she pulls away from me as if telling me “bugger off daddy, I know what I’m doing…” but when something wrong did happen she comes running back to me, ahhh, the joy of being needed, priceless.

By the way, we didn’t enroll her on that tumbling class anymore. We felt it was no longer appropriate for her. We’re waiting when she turns 3 yrs old at least by then there will be more classes that are age appropriate. That’s one of the things we love in Pearland, very family oriented, I can help but feel sorry for our friends stuck in Miami, that place is not family friendly at all and we are happy we have left as soon as we could.

We’re going to this easter egg hunting thing in Sugarland tomorrow, hopefully Yana will enjoy. I’ll bring my camera as usual and take some snapshots. I’ll upload as soon as I can.

Till then take care and thanks for reading my ramblings.