I realized that my last album dedicated for my son's growth was when he was still 17 months old. Making a promise to myself that will be keeping progress of him every now and then because... he just grows up so fast!!! I need to keep track.

Our first entry.

My mom is a Managing Director (MD) of Personal Collection Direct Selling, Inc..  They have a branch in Toledo City, Cebu and most of the time, Zaien, my son, tags along with her whenever she goes to the office. The PC staff have become fond of Zaien, praising him for his witty and smart responses. A blabbermouth, they would say. He would interview people who would sit down at my mom's table.

White Dove is one of the products of Personal Collection for babies. It has a everything a baby needs from bath soap, shampoo, lotion, baby oil, and cologne. My baby (we still call him baby even though he's already six) uses all the products, not because my mom is an MD, but because his skin doesn't get allergies from it. Before, we used other brands and because his skin is super sensitive, there are times that he develops rashes. Anyways, this is not a review article so let's proceed with the photo session.

As I was saying, the PC staff adored Zaien. When they held a contest for a White Dove Baby, they urged my mom to have Zaien enter the contest and my mom, as a proud grandma, willingly obliged. We were asked to submit two (2) entry photos. But we took many photos anyway.

Missing his front tooth.

Our second entry.

We don't have much behind the scenes photos... but how did we do it? 

Behind the scenes.

We put Zaien on a long table and surrounded him with different White Dove products. A white board was placed behind him and hung the white colored series light carefully on it. This is how it looks like in a normal view.

See the wires?

It was really hard capturing "perfect" photos mostly because the subject (Zaien) was antsy and very impatient. We really have to be very creative to make him stay put and smile for the camera.

And now for the Before and After photos.

The wings were missing some feathers so I asked the help of my dear friend, Adobe Photoshop.

So that's all it!

If you like what you saw and want to have a collaboration with me, you may contact me through my Facebook, Instagram, or my email account [edjel_anime (at) yahoo.com].

One week old baby Varg

My cousin had just given birth to a beautiful baby boy. His papa named him Varg which means wolf in Swedish and Old Norwegian language.

Nursery Culminating Activity 2014

My 4 year old baby has just graduated from Nursery last April 8, 2014. I'm so proud of him! He's the youngest of this batch. We enrolled him when he was still 3 and a half years old in De La Salle ASMC. He was always telling us that he wants to go to school but the school only accepts 4 turning 5 year olds in kindergarten. We said we could let him try to take the entrance test and if he passes it's up for the school to decide... and yes, he was able to pass the entrance test. 

Zaien's grades in English were not that grade but he got excellent marks in both Science and Math. I'm guessing he took it from both his grandpas. I was afraid that he might not be able to pass nursery because he failed one English exam. But his teacher told us that he is performing well despite his age and that he can compete with his classmates who are a year or 2 older than him. She said in his age it's quite amazing that he can have perfect scores in Science and Math. Actually, every time I tutor him he tells me that he hates letters and that we should just move to numbers instead. And enough with this let's move on to the graduation. :D

Zaien in a toga. Upper left is his pilot costume.

After claiming his certificate.

The eyebrows lol

The nursery cuties have prepared a presentation per class. They wore the uniforms of the Priests & Nuns, Sailormen & Sailorwomen, Nurses & Doctors, New Yorkers, and Pilots & Stewardesses. If you want to see my son's presentation, click here.

Presentation per class

Zaien in his pilot suit running towards mama after their presentation.

After the presentation number was the singing of the graduation and the De La Salle Alma Mater song.

Hail to thee our Alma Mater, Hail Hail Hail!

Class picture

Forced smile

The graduation ceremony has ended, it's time for the pictorials with the graduate.

Zaien with papa Dar on the left side and with mama Edj on the right side

With my mom and siblings

With the proud parents

With his aunt Kristine and grandma Josephine

So busy playing with the phone

Forced smile

He said he's already tired smiling hihi

He was forcing his papa to show his teeth

A photo with his teacher, Madam Caliguid

He was already tired and wanted to go home so excuse his about-to-cry face. :D

Booth pictorial

Joecel Photostudio held an affordable photo booth at their classroom. We took the chance. They were also the ones whom I let my graduation photo be taken with. Very affordable and excellent services. They don't make a lot of edits on your face unlike other cheap photo studios which would make your face so unlike you. You might want to get their services. They are just near USC Main.

Planned to but jump shots with them are never successful

And of course, my outfit for the rainy day.

My outfit of the day

Sheer blouse & footwear: Natasha
Skater skirt: Pre-order @ Mary
Neon pink umbrella: Avon

Zaien whilst eating apple in the middle of the garden

Spring time, where most of the flowers comes to its full bloom. Hubby's grandma is in love with gardening. She just turned 95 years old last Wednesday (April 16, 2014) but she still manages to take care of her garden hands-on without any assistant! I've never been in a house with such wide garden. She's a bit eccentric in a good way (I think their whole bloodline are).

When I first came to their house, I saw a label outside with his father's name with a doctor psychiatrist below. I then saw the Nature Sanctuary below it and I asked hubby why's that. He said that's his grandma's garden. I laughed at first but as I entered the gate, her huge garden welcomed me. My first thought was their house is like inside a mini forest.

Yellow flower

Pink Hibiscus

I am not fond of flowers, plants and fruits so I can't really name them at all. The flowers above are just two among her collection of flowers. Those were just along the pathway so it made it easy for me to take a photo of them.

Zaien watching at the cute yellow flower

Ariane holding a yellow balloon

Her grandma despite her age, have memorized how many flowers have bloomed or how many fruits have her plants blossomed so if you plan to pick a flower or a fruits, be sure to ask permission first. Well, that was what I was told when I asked my hubby if I could pick that one Atis fruit hanging above me.

Inside our secret garden

Not everyone could maintain a huge garden in their homes such as this one. Even our (my parent's) house don't have a garden, we only have a couple of plants in front of the house. This is an amazing hobby to maintain. It is astonishing indeed. Only a few people could get to be in their garden making it Our Secret Garden.