gogol's notes 4

Dear Tatay,

this letter is long overdue. but i have several news.

and many stories to tell. 

nanay says i'm so hyperactive. that's why we did not have much time to write you. nanay has to bring me out all the time to get rid of my excess energy.

 or has to watch my siopao butt all the time so i won't get electrocuted or so i won't destroy our properties accidentally. Nanay said that when she sees me touching any electrical parts she won't ask me to stop; she'll just get physical. she said she'll hit my hands with a stick. 

but see my new trick tatay. i know where the buttons for changing channels are. they hid the remote from me but i am smart now. because i am a big boy. 

tell you, in antique i fell on the bed once, slipped on a wet floor maybe twice and bumped into the bamboo chairs thrice. well, one of it was kiko jetjet's fault. he forced himself to carry me but since i am a big boy already we both fell and my rosy cheeks kissed the edge of the chair painfully.

....SO by the time nanay wants to open her computer she's to tired. or she has just enough energy to sing and recite to me the spanish words before i drift off to sleep. everyone is telling nanay to teach me english but nanay said i can get english in school so she will just teach me something else. 

hey tatay, i know what OJOS is. and i now know how to say pish and cooke and cara and daahyty. i told lola one time "daaahyty" because she picked up the coins from the table. nanay tells me all the time not to pick them up because they are daaahyty.

sometimes when i saw bebes i also tell nanay. and stars. and osong paloy. osong paloy helps me go to sleep. nanay gives him/her to me and i hug osong paloy then i sleep. so when i see osong paloy i make a sign of sleeping. in my diaper there is a drawing of osong paloy.

nanay slept late last night. she had a national geographic marathon. she's into long way down now. i thought she does not like motorcycles. because they said it's very dangerous to be driving motorcycles here. but now she really likes this long way down. or maybe she's just in love with ewan mcgregor.

or maybe she's planning to go on a long long road trip?? are you two going on a long long road trip tatay? because when she was fixing our room i saw this camping bag but the shoulder pads were somewhat damaged. nanay said they were chewed off by the mighty termites. nanay hates termites. she said she'll bring it to the habagat store in the neighborhood to have it fixed. but she never got to. not yet. she's so busy with me.

nanay and i were supposed to go to CPU yesterday so i could unleash all the excess energy but i fell asleep watching jamie oliver on tv. when i woke up it was too late and i just played my energy off before having dinner.

we had chicken and buttered corn, peas and carrots and minute maid last night. i had fun playing with the peas.

2 weekends ago

 we had pancakes. nanay cooked 2 kinds: the caucasian kindand the african kind. now, that african one is on top of the caucasian. maybe it's because it's much tastier. or maybe it's because obama won. 

BUT i had more fun with the pancake syrup.

on lola mommy's birthday, nanay cooked spaghetti, pinoy style.  because her little cousins were

 coming over and they like their spaghetti sweet. 

i ate a lot of spaghetti. 

by the way, that tarragon was from kika tipol's pot. 

BUT i had more fun eating kalamansi. 

on lola mommy's birthday.

nanay said in 10 days we will see you. i'll ride the plane with lola mommy and nanay.

then you will have to kiss me at the airport. just the way they daddies do it on tv.

flying kisses,


Gogol

Peee - Esss.

Nanay took this picture the day before renz left jardeleza compound. 

Renz and his brother and his mother left the apartment for good. his yayay said they are moving to their new house in pavia. 

but i think they were just running away from the termites.

gogol notes 3

17 november 2008

Dear tatay,

Late yesterday afternoon nanay, kika mao and I went to CPU because nanay said I should have some time outdoors. Kika mao wanted to attend the Baptist church service in her university. She decided to accompany us for a while because her friends were still busy with DOTA. I asked nanay to carry me all the way from our house to the acad oval – I don’t know how they call it there, tatay but it’s like the acad oval in diliman, although much much much smaller. Then just before we got to the oval I went down to run run run because I was seeing a really wide space and got so excited. When we got to the oval I ran to the football field. I had to squat to touch the silt from Typhoon Frank to feel that it’s real. I am touching sand and silt and dirt…the kind that we don’t have back in our apartment. Then I ran some more and there were the grasses already. So I squatted again to pluck some grasses to see if they were really real. I ran in circles, I ran all over the place, left and right to the scrawny dog of the other picnickers but nanay stopped me. She said the dog does not know me well and might bite me. But I insisted, so she carried me again and put me somewhere else. Like a chess piece. Nanay is clever. 

I did not run after the dog anymore. It was too far for my small legs. Then I saw the group playing with a ball. Then I wanted to play with them too. I think they were the same group with the dog. There were the 3 children and their mother and their father and some more adults. The small kid cried because he couldn’t have his time with the ball. The bigger kids had them. it was a volleyball but they used it like a football. but it doesn't matter as long as it can bounce and can be kicked!

Kika mao told nanay I should be brought there every Sunday. Nanay said we will bring our small ball next time so I can throw it up up up in the sky to fly with the birdies and the airplane that I saw flying together with the birds and the bats. When you come home for christmas tatay we will play there and you can help me throw the ball. Because I think you are stronger and you can throw the ball higher than the flying birds. But hit no bird!!! Because birds are our friends. :D

I hope in christmas I will be well enough to run. You think so, tatay?

I have colds. I have runny nose. Nanay brought with her my hanky. She wiped the snot from my nose every now and then.

Then in the morning tatay I asked nanay to play in the driveway. I did not wear any shorts. But my shirt was long enough to cover my pisot. Because my cars shoes is lost nanay made me wear the osh kosh. Nanay tried the rubber slippers but I can’t stand the band and if I don’t use the band they can’t stay on my feet for long. Maybe my feet don’t like them? because the cars and the nike shoes and the osh kosh stay. So I wore the osh kosh. Then I ran and ran and ran along the driveway. Sometimes with my head up high like that. Then after a while I had so much sweat so nanay took some cloth diapers to put on my back. kika mao said I should keep my back dry all the time or I’ll get pneumonia. What is pneumonia tatay? Is it like a cake? Or ice cream?

Nanay and I went ahead. Kika mao stayed for the service. It was already dark when we went home. It was only 5:45 but already dark. Nanay told me I am getting heavier each day. Maybe I am becoming big boy very fast. Maybe when we visit you in December, tatay, I will be bigger than you and you have to look up when you talk to me. That will be very funny. But I still want to be small boy so you can carry me all the time and put me on your lap while we listen to lala and locomotion and see pictures of myself on picasa.

Nanay said maybe I will visit the doctor today. Manang nening will bring me because nanay can’t take time off from her work. I will write you again tonight so you will know what the doctor said.

You take you vitamins every day tatay so your nose will not go runny like mine. And won’t have cough like mine.

Flying kisses,

Gogol