5 & growing

Yes I just turned 5 last April 25 though this is a way too late to blog about my celebration but who cares . Like my Kuya, I have also celebrated it with SMUC with a sports themed birthday party. Have invited my close friends from school to celebrate it with me and Mom prepared an afternoon snack for everyone. It was a 3 hours non-stop sports activities. I am glad that my friends enjoyed it as much as I did. I am happy to have this option to celebrate my birthday as this is something original.

I am 5 and growing.....that means I need to stop doing naughty things. Well, not exactly stop but lessen my being makulit (mischievous) according to Mom. Anyway, we will update this blog again soon. We did a lot of great stuffs this summer so stay tuned .

2+1= 3

It was April 12 when our little sister said hello to the world. Her name is Chiara Dalisay and she weighs 4.640 kls and 51 cm. Big baby she is, record breaker as we call her. We are really happy to have her. We were so excited of her coming. We help Maman to take care of Chiara by simply playing with her while Maman does the chores at home. Now, there you go...the three of us . She's 5 months old in this photo and she starts eating solid food. More on us next time.

7 candles

It's been a long time that we haven't updated this site. A lot has happened since our last post. First, I just turned 7 years old and we have celebrated my birthday simply at home. My Maman cooked spaghetti and cake to celebrate the day. It's not only that, my parents have also prepared something for me to celebrate it with my close friends from school. It was a birthday party themed sports at SMUC where we usually do sports. Thank you very much to my parents who made an effort to surprise me and did everything during the birthday party. And to our 2 monitors who prepared sports activities and offered entertaining and exciting parcours for everybody.

This is the birthday cake my Mom prepared for me.

Our 2 monitors and my invited friends

My team multicolours

The bluegreen team

Everyone !

We really had a blast ! It was fun & sporty celebration ! Can't wait for next year. Would like to thank again my parents, my friends who came and for their wonderful gifts.

techniques to discover

It's Sébastien speaking, since I passed the ski test and obtained the 3rd star, I decided to take snowboard lesson. I asked my parents that I am very interested to try snowboarding. Papa called the L'ESF (Ecole du Ski Français) and inquire. According to them snowboarding lesson starts at the age of 10. They have asked my father if I am an independent child and could follow instructions easily. He answered yes and that I am very sports-minded child. We have spent 1 week in the Alps and on the first day I started to take group lessons with other kids . The thing is, I was with kids of 10 yrs. old and up. I am independent but not as independent as of a 10 yrs. old child. I've found myself catching up with big kids and always on my knees honestly it was tough and quite tiring. The next day, my parents decided to take private lesson and so I have my own snowboard monitor all by myself from 5PM to 6PM for 4 days. I don't care if it's cold because I am very interested to learn snowboarding. After 4 days of hardwork I had my 1st level in snowboarding and got my medal. My Monitor named Kevin is proud of me as I have easily learned the techniques. He even talks about me with his colleagues, and I am happy because it's a compliment ! Here's the video of me just to share that I made it even if it was tough !

we did it !

Hello there, we've been so busy with all the things happening around us. And because Maman is a bit tired....guess what the coming of our third sibling demands a lot of time. She's working out on everything before the baby arrive. We thank her for still updating our site despite of busy schedule.

Last Christmas we have spent a wonderful white celebration between us in the Alps. We have enjoyed skiing with Papa while Maman gets some rest. We got the best gift ever this Christmas, I got my 3rd medal (3éme étoile) for ski while my sister got his snowflake medal (flocon). And just spending quality time with family will always be the best gift to celebrate the season. We'll share some of our photos to end this post ! Have a prosperous 2010 to all.

The proof that we have passed the ski test !

Visit of Londoners

It's been 4 months since our last post. A lot has happened since then. Summer was great and we did enjoy those 4 months hiatus without blogging.

As usual we have spent 3 weeks vacation in Corsica and did a lot of activities. Though, while on vacation we were worried as there was a big fire during the day we left Marseille going to Corsica. The fire started far from where we live but it has reached our district. According to the news, there was 1,3000 hectares damaged by the fire caused by the military people. A Legionary from Aubagne who is responsible for carrying out shooting tracer bullets which is the origin of the drama. He has been suspended and placed in custody. We will not go into details but we are really released that our house is safe. We think of the victims and we pray and hope they will recover soon and get the help they need.

image from google.com

That was the sad part of our vacation. But as we always say, life must go on. Mama's friend finally visited us last summer since last Spring we came to London to visit them. Since they have lost contact with each other after 12 years they are reunited. Now it's their turn to visit us. We have toured them and here's the pictures.

The train going to Notre Dame de la Garde

At the park

Playing at "Plage de la Gracieuse"

It was a nice visit and we enjoyed their company a lot. Thanks for visiting us and we will see next time. See you on our next post with a big bang !

C' est que du bonheur

Nous sommes en vacances depuis début Juillet. Et puis nous avons eu la chance d'avoir un long weekend grâce au 14 Juillet donc nous étions allés à Lyon. Nous avons visité des amis qu'on ne n'avons pas vu pendant 2 ans passés. C'était génial car il y avait beaucoup du monde donc beaucoup d'nfants également. Ils ont une grande piscine et les enfant ont pas mal de jouets qu'ils ont pu partager avec gentillesse à tout le monde.

Nous avons partagé ce bonheur dans le pré!

At puis la suite, en rentrant à Marseille nous étions allés voir d'autres amis qui sont venus depuis Paris. C'était l'occasion de revoir d'autres amis franco-philippines que nous avons rencontré l'année dernière. Là-bas

Voila, les vacances chez nous ! Le soleil, les amis, la piscine, le bons repas etc. Le bonheur quoi ! Bonne vacances à tous !

Superheros

This was a one fine day with our friend Jasmine (Papa's goddaughter) . And since we've always been out during the weekends we thought of playing at home with all Kuya Basti's costumes ! Do not mind the messy room ......Maman will arranged them later...hhhrrrmmm we have arranged them after playing of course otherwise Maman will get crazy lol !

Jampacked!!

A month of not blogging well sorry we have a valid reasons for that! To recapitulate our last month escapade here are they !

1. We went to London and visited 2 good friends there for one week.

2. Hiking with 4 groups of families 13 kids present so it was really a blast.

3. Organized cleaning and maintaining of beach property owned by the office of our Papa. Free t-shirts, hats, gloves, appetizer, paella lunch and dessert ! With a lots of activities like poney riding, kite making, etc.



4. Wine tasting for our parents with friends in the morning. Later that afternoon picnicking at the owner of the vineyard who's been Papa's friend since his university days.




5. Visited Tati Makis and Tonton Alex in the Region of Alpes Maritime. Went at Chateau de Gourdon did pedalo and swimming.





Activities we did were amazing. We get to discovered many things, visit new places, meet new people and vice-versa. It's pretty tiring but we liked it anyway !

1,2,3,4 Blow !

Today is a gift of life, today it's your birthday. Happy birthday, Mimi! We love you... from: Lolo & Lola Tita Early & Russel, and Tito Puroy !

This is the first birthday greeting I have received today from my loving family back home. Maman opened her Facebook and voila, she found this card tucked in her inbox! I would like to thank them for remembering me on my special day. Today is my 4th birthday and I am really happy to be a grown up child and will behave like one :D !

Spring break !

We have 2 weeks spring break every year. This time Papa took a one week leave to be with us in the Alps. This year we're taking the chance to really go skiing as the Alps in not far from Marseilles. Since there are less skiers the ski lesson offered is only every morning from 9AM to 12 Noon. My Kuya had his première etoile (first star) already last month and so Papa took this chance to enrol him to pass the deuxième etoile (second star). Therefore, we have one week skiing to take the challenge. As for me Mayumi speaking, I already got my first medal (poussin) piou-piou so this time I'll try my best to pass the second step and get that second medal. We will tell you more about our ski adventure and the result as soon as we have them. We still have 2 days left before passing the big challenge. For the moment, we will enjoy the sunny side part from the Alps. Work hard for that medal. That's our goal and to enjoy our family spring break to the max !