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Tifa’s first star!

March 4, 2010 in Kids and Parenting, Tifa's Adventures in Wonderland | No comments

Tifa got this star yesterday after perfecting her entrance exams at the Pater Noster Montessori School in Tagaytay. She just turned 3 last January 20 and from the look of it, she already have the IQ of a College Professor. Hahaha, joke time! She was just asked to name shapes, colors, objects and traced and colored some images.

I thought I could resist but the potential stage dad in me forced me to capture a few minutes of her entrance exams on video. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the video file size is more than 800Mb so there’s no way I could upload it on vimeo or youtube without doing any video editing so I can’t share it here (yet).

That’s Tifa accompanied by Teacher Eden, the head teacher, in the classroom of this year’s nursery students.

The school only accept 15 students for each level so we already reserved a slot for her. Now Tifa only have a few more months before she could finally explore the “outside world” only by herself and only a few months for us to become full-blown stage parents. HAHAHA!

Tifa’s Adventures in Grouchland

February 27, 2010 in Entertainment, Tifa's Adventures in Wonderland | No comments

Before anything else, did you know that, aside from Oscar the Grouch, there are other grouches in Sesame Street? And according to this source, other grouches are named Grizzly the Grouch, Grundgetta Grunge and Osvaldo the Grouch. But, so far, in the entirety of my childish existence, I have only seen Oscar the Grouch – the most celebrated grouch of all time – and his grouch girlfriend, Grundgetta Grunge. Yes, knowing those two grouches are highly essential for your human existence lest you’ve been deprived of your childhood or simply getting a kick from aging – memory loss.

Here’s a YouTube video for a refresher. It features Oscar, Grundgetta and Spill O’Reilly. Although I must admit that I’ve also never heard of Spill O’Reilly until this.

Now back to the main story…

Once, I went to Divisoria to buy shirts for a print project when I came upon a store selling moderately-cute school supplies and other kiddie stuff. I saw a case of Winnie the Pooh crayons and colored pens being sold for P50.00 so I bought one for my kid (see photo above). One day, I saw her drawing shapes and other not-so-recognizable-images such as this…

I asked her what she was drawing because one of her sketches looked liked a potato (see the one next to the cat. Yeah, I drew that cat and good luck finding it. HAHAHA!). She told me that was a man.

The next day, she came up with another masterpiece and when asked what she drew that time, she came up with the following explanation…

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Tifa and her imaginary flute

February 15, 2010 in Tifa's Adventures in Wonderland | 1 comment

I think I’ve been spamming this blog for the longest time so let me post something more personal today. Like how this blog is supposed to be – a personal blog. Let me start by exploiting Tifa’s wild imagination.

Yes, just like every normal child, Tifa possesses a very wild imagination. Or should I say, beyond normal imagination. Just like the fact that she possesses beyond normal intelligence.

One night, Tifa was playing and pretending she’s playing a flute. She placed this imaginary flute in her lips and her fingers in its imaginary holes and started blowing. While doing it, she danced along with the imaginary music created by her imaginary flute.

Haha! This post is being filled with too much “imaginary” words so let me share you how I tried to interrupt her imagination.

Being the nasty father, I pretended that I didn’t like the imaginary music she was playing so I snatched her imaginary flute and pretend to break (or broke?) it into pieces. Tifa started struggling to retrieve her imaginary flute from me. She was so angry, she was on the brink of crying.

So I returned the imaginary flute to her and my wife and I started laughing. Just like what was expected from her beyond normal imagination, she got too engrossed with her imaginary flute that she forgot it was just imaginary.

Photo source: Wapiano.com.au

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