Why Does My Baby Cry So Much?

This is the entry who won the Momsquawk Facebook Contest.  The winner chosen was based on the total number of likes and comments on the note.  Congratulations Samantha Bangayan!  You can click the title to go to the Momsquawk Facebook Page of her entry or click her name to go to her site.


Why Does My Baby Cry So Much?


by Samantha Bangayan


If there was only one thing I could tell all new mothers, I would tell them about the “Period of PURPLE Crying.” Dr. Ronald Barr, the Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research, discovered that infants between 2 and 16 weeks of age go through a normal stage of development when they cry more often. Despite being healthy, babies at these ages may cry for no reason at all and nothing the mother does will be able to soothe the baby. Mothers need to know that they are not bad mothers and that their babies are not bad babies when this happens.

Dr. Barr identified six characteristics of this period of crying that you can easily remember with the acronym, “Purple”:

P = The peak of crying happens when the baby hits 8 weeks.

U = Crying can happen unexpectedly.

R = Your baby may resist soothing.

P = Even though your baby may show a pain-like face, he or she may be just fine.

L = Periods of crying can be long lasting.

E = Babies often cry more during the late afternoon and evenings in this period.

When you feel like you’ve tried everything and you’re at your wits’ end, here are some tips to deal with the frustration:

1. Accept help from others. You need to take care of yourself too, so take your parents or friends up on their offers to babysit. As much as it’s valuable to model self-sacrifice for your baby, it’s also important to be a model of self-care. Parents need breaks too!

2. Connect with other parents. There’s nothing more relieving than being able to relate with others who are in the same boat. Share stories, tips and ideas on how to soothe your baby, regain your composure and cope as new parents.

3. Put the baby down. If there’s no one around to lend a hand, know that it’s okay to place your baby in a safe place for 5 to 10 minutes. Leaving your baby for a short amount of time will not lead to abandonment issues; on the contrary, babies will eventually learn and have confidence that when a parent leaves, they will always be back.




This entry of Ms. Bangayan was an eye-opener for me for many reasons.  Though I do not totally agree with this but I could say that to some extent I have experienced such stage with my babies.  I have a long story to tell of my experience so I'll just give you a link to my own journey in what is called 'Period of Purple Crying'.

Kids Are Mirrors

This is my official entry to the Momsquawk Facebook Contest.  You can read this entry here or at the Momsquawk page and read also other entries as they are pretty helpful to all parents.





I always wanted to have an affectionate family of my own.  I envisioned myself to be able to raise a family where hugging is abundant, appreciation is addressed well and humility is practiced.

I realized that in order to achieve that I have to make a decision, a decision wherein as a parent I will be modeling such affection in the family.  So I resolved to find someone who had the same views as I have.
And thankfully I did marry a very affectionate guy.  We both wanted to show and tell our affection to our kids.  We now have two young boys (a 2 & 9 mos. and an 8 mos. old) who are full of hugs and kisses and receive loving words from us.  

Hammie, the older son loves hugs, kisses and the endearment that we shower him.  When he was still a baby my husband and I would hug and kiss him at the same time.  After hugging him, we would ask him if he wanted more, he would nod smiling and he received another round of bear hugs and long kisses on the cheek until he had enough.  

Louie also is receiving the same warmth that we gave Hammie.  And it’s a pleasant feeling that Hammie does not get jealous instead he just smile looking at us, his parents hugging and kissing Louie.  We then call on to Hammie to join us for a big family hug, to which he laughs off and tries to run away smiling as his father would go get him.  In the end, he would be the one asking for more affection.

Today, Hammie also practices greeting everyone in the family when he wakes up in the morning and before he sleeps at night.  And he makes sure that he does his series of goodbyes with his father before going to work.  That’s a kiss on both cheeks, a kiss on the nose and a light bang of foreheads.  He looks for it even if he is still half asleep when his papa leaves for work.

There are moments in a day that he would just go to me or his papa and give a hug, kiss or tell us ‘I love yous’ spontaneously.  Being the elder brother, he hugs and kisses his little brother without us telling him to.  He passes on the affection that we showed him.  It’s so heartwarming to see him display his love for his brother, his papa and me, his mama like that.

It made me realized that whatever you do in being a parent is reflected in how your kids interact and grow.  Children are mirrors of their parents’ value system.  And though it’s a new world for me to be expressive, it sure is something that I look forward to everyday of being a mother to two such adorable kids.

My Gleek Mania 3

Here is another of the original songs that Glee composed.  They also sang this at the regionals, that's episode 16 of the Glee Season 2.  They made this song to get back to the Glee Club haters especially to Sue Sylvester.  Enjoy singing!

Loser Like Me

Yeah, you may think that I'm a zero

But hey, everyone you wanna be probably started off like me

You may say that I'm a freak show (I don't care)

But hey, give it just a little time, I betcha gonna change your mind

All of the dirt you've been throwin' my way

It ain't so hard to take (That's right)

'Cause I know one day you'll be screamin' my name

And I'll just look away (That's right)

Just go ahead and hate on me and run your mouth (So everyone can hear)

Hit me with the worst you got and knock me down (Baby, I don't care)

Keep it up and soon enough you'll figure out

You wanna be, you wanna be

A loser like me! A loser like me!

Push me up against the locker

And hey, all I'll do is shake it off, and getcha back when I'm your boss

I'm not thinkin' 'bout you haters

'Cause hey, I could be a superstar, I'll see you when you wash my car

All of the dirt you've been throwin' my way

It ain't so hard to take (That's right)

'Cause I know one day you'll be screamin' my name

And I'll just look away (That's right)

Just go ahead and hate on me and run your mouth (So everyone can hear)

Hit me with the worst you got and knock me down (Baby i don't care)

Keep it up and soon enough you'll figure out

You wanna be, you wanna be

A loser like me!

A loser like me!

A loser like me!

Hey you over there, keep that 'L' up, up in the air

Hey you over there, keep that 'L' up, 'cause I don't care

You can throw your sticks, and you can throw your stones

Like a rocket, just watch me go yeah

L-O-S-E-R, I can only be who I are!

Just go ahead and hate on me and run your mouth (So everyone can hear)

Hit me with the worst you got and knock me down (Baby, I don't care)

Keep it up and soon enough you'll figure out

You wanna be, you wanna be

A loser like me!

Just go ahead and hate on me and run your mouth (So everyone can hear)

Hit me with the worst you got and knock me down (Baby, I don't care)

Keep it up and soon enough you'll figure out

You wanna be, you wanna be

A loser like me! (A loser like me!)

A loser like me! (A loser like me!)

A loser like me!

Bohol Trip Part 4

This blog is the fifth part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!


If you have missed the other blogs just click the title of the previous stories:
Bohol Trip Part 1
Bohol Trip Part 2
Bohol Trip Part 3.1
Bohol Trip Part 3.2

The last day of our trip to Bohol was spent on the beach.  Good thing the sun finally came out that day and the beach trip was enjoyed under the sun and surf.  We went to Dumaluan Beach Resort located at the Panglao Island, a semi public resort as you can opt for their cottages or hotel like accommodations for longer beach enjoyment.  But we just rented a cottage for the day which was priced at P350 and had our fresh fish grilled by their staff for a charge of P75 per kilo.  Later we saw that there was a public grilling area outside the parking lot.  We could have saved that P75 charge but that was alright I guess. 

Since Louie was not yet a year old, I decided not to let him in the salt water.  Hammie loved swimming in the beach.  He wanted to stand on his own to face the waves but since the tide was getting high, his papa just held him so they can play with the waves without him choking on sea water.  He played by the shore wanting to build his own sand castle.  His papa and I helped him with his castle. 

We decided to eat lunch already but Hammie wanted to stay and continue building his castle which was patting up a pile of sand but he was so serious doing it that we just left him by the shore and went to our rented cottage a few feet away and looked at where he was once in a while.  Then I saw a kid a year or so older than Hammie went over to where Hammie was and just kicked the sand castle we help him built and poor Hammie he just stared at the kid and went on with patting his castle or what was left of it. 

I immediately went over and asked Hammie if he was fine and he said he was okay but a kid kicked the sand castle.  Poor Hammie he was the one not to fight back.  I figured the kicking kid wanted to have attention as he showed he lacks some.  I helped Hammie build another bunch of castle towers with the assistance of a plastic tumbler and asked his papa to come over and build castles too and told him what happened.  The kid came back and watched us and suddenly Hammie told the kid with a finger waving at him ‘No!’  I guess he needed some support before he can muster up some courage to fight back. 

The kid did not do any more damage to Hammie’s sand castles but was annoying the other kids with us who were making a mermaid tale for Angel who was covered with sand waist down.  He wanted to join in the fun by throwing sand on the tail part.  But Undoy and Dong-dong did not want to and told the kid off.  Poor kid, he just wanted to play and nobody wanted to play with him.  One of the realizations I have as a parent, kids need and love attention.  I hope parents understand that and give their children their much needed attention, affection and appreciation.  It gives children the confidence in themselves and do not need to bully others to get the attention they need.

After some time of convincing Hammie finally went to the cottage to eat some biko Tita Excel made.  It was delicious and Hammie ate a lot.  I decided to changed already so I can breastfeed Louie to find out there was a fee of P15 to use their shower rooms.  The rest of the kids and Ryan went back to the beach and enjoyed the cool waters for a little while more.  Finally, they also changed clothes without going to the showers anymore.  We left the beach a little after noon and went to ICM to buy some pasalubong.  And of course bought some ice cream at the Buzz Café and Louie loved the cold dessert.  We arrived at the Aliguay house past 2pm. 

I already started packing up the previous night so it only took a while to finish the bags to be packed up and prepared everyone to be ready for the boat trip at 7pm later that night.  We had an early dinner by 5pm and left the house by 6pm.  We arrived at the port terminal about 630pm and to our surprise, there were a lot of people riding the boat for Cagayan de Oro.  I guess they were finish joining fiestas and reunions of their own.  The boat left by 830pm already but we arrived early still at 5am.  So I guess we are now back to the real world.  Till next time Bohol, we will surely be back! ;)

Bohol Trip Part 3.2

This blog is the fourth part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!


If you have not read the other entries Bohol Trip Part 1, Bohol Trip Part 2 and Bohol Trip Part 3.1 just click the titles.

After the adventure, Dad decided to have our lunch at the Loboc River Cruise.  There are four operators who offer lunch buffet at the River Cruise with the same price of P300 per head, P250 for kids and free for small children the only difference is the food they serve and how they decorated their floating restaurants.  For the ones paying P300, there is an additional entrance fee of P100 and free for kids 11 below.  In my opinion the price was too high for local tourists.  Bohol tourism should also take into consideration local travelers of the country to think the food was just ordinary and simple.  But anyway we still enjoyed the river cruise.  There were two ports of choice where the floating restaurant can dock to watch the boholanons dance their local dances. 

When we reached the point where we need to turn around, we all noticed the cable car and the zipline ride above.  When our cruise was about to end we saw the Loboc Old Church and the Museo de Loboc.  I remembered the first time I was able to visit the church way back July 2007 during our honeymoon, we saw the Loboc Children’s Choir members starting to gather to practice but we did not wait for them to perform.

We got off the floating restaurant and wanted to go to our next adventure even if it was just going to look at some tarsiers nearby.  But before we could leave, we saw a buzz café at the area and we couldn’t resist buying ice cream! I ate a scoop of avocado ice cream but wanted to buy another scoop.  I bought a scoop each of malunggay and pandan all to myself, he he.  Oh Hammie did ask for some but I ate a lot of it.

We went to a little tarsier sanctuary a few kilometers from the river cruise area.  That day was the fight between Pacquiao and Mosley, when we arrived at the tarsier sanctuary, the boys immediately went to the tv and watched the bout.  Louie was asleep with his papa holding him so I brought Hammie to the tarsiers but did not want to go near them.  We only stayed there for a few minutes and went back to Aliguay after there. 

Before we went to the house, Kuya Cyrus brought us to a mini zoo where a Burmese python was displayed for everyone to see, of course with an entrance fee that costs P20 each.  There were other animals there like wild cats, monkeys, a Persian cat, iguana, two agilas, snakes, etc.  I cringed at the sight of the python.  Its body was as big as Ryan’s torso, so you can imagine how big it is but not as long as the usual python. 

It got me thinking if that mini zoo had permit to operate as the condition of the place is quite dismal.  One of the monkeys had a wound on its tail and was bleeding; one of the snakes had a wound around its neck; the cages of the wild cats were too small among other things I observed there.  The mini zoo was just situated at the backyard of a house so it made me wonder if such animal zoo is allowed and if the animals were properly documented.  Well anyway I can’t dwell on that for now as we went to the port near the Maribojoc old church and watched the view from there. 

The port had a great view of the bay by that place.  Bohol is not yet urbanized, though I hope it will be kept that way and the sight manifests that.  Thick greenery can be seen and dots of house here and there are the only signs that the area is inhabited.  Kids by the port swam into the sea and catch some sea horses, according to them, to play with.  They even caught some other thing that I have no name for, like a sea anemone or something.  What a nice way to spend their summer afternoon.  

After the long day we then went back to Aliguay to enjoy the rest of the day.  There is a 40 inch lcd television so the rest of the night was spent on watching some cartoons and coloring some pictures on Hammie’s book.  Tomorrow will be the last day of adventure to be spent on the beach!

Bohol Trip Part 3.1

This blog is the third part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!


You can go to Bohol Trip Part 1 to read the beginning of our trip and Bohol Trip Part 2 to read our second day in Bohol!

I forgot to mention that waking up in Aliguay was the exact opposite of waking up back in CDO City.  The only similar feature is that both houses are located by the road.  And the rest is the exact opposite.  You see, the house in CDO is by the national highway so that means what you hear is the traffic on the road.  Annoying horns, speedy cars and motorcycles, rumbles of big trucks, too loud sound system of Emcor and Yamaha and all those traffic noise are just a regular daily dose of sounds.  In Aliguay, what you hear are birds chirping away not just in the morning but the whole day.  Cicadas singing and roosters crowing are also abounding.  The only traffic you hear from the road are occasional motorcycles and buses.  Most of the time if you do not have a television or radio turned on, then there’s just silence.  And it’s a welcoming silence to me.

By Sunday, most of us woke up early for the 630am mass at San Roque chapel a few kilometers from Aliguay.  Ryan and I decided to leave Hammie and Louie with the nanny at the house since Louie just woke up by 630am and Hammie was still dreaming away by the time we left.  What amazed me at the chapel were the surrounding trees.  At the Aliguay house, you can hear birds chirping better than the cicadas singing but at the chapel, the singing cicadas were deafening.  It just goes to show how rural the place is and it made me realize that such places do still exist in the fast urbanization of the country.

After the mass we went back to the house, ate breakfast and got ready to go to Loboc.  Good thing that Louie’s rashes were diminishing.  Kuya Cyrus drove almost an hour to get to Loboc from Bool as we stopped by there first to leave some stuff for Fr. Jun.  We passed by Corella on our way to Loboc where the natural habitat of the tarsiers are located and a camping area is also available but we did not visit.  My husband and I planned to go there next time and go camping with the kids when they get older.  With the Beauty and the Beast musical as our background music through the drive to Loboc, we were excited for the adventure ahead. 

We arrived at the Loboc Ecotourism Adventure Park by 1130am and we went ahead riding the cable car.  Daddy, Ryan, Hammie, Lyn and I were the ones to ride it.  Louie was left with Tita Rose, Angel, Dong2, Inday, Undoy and Kuya Cyrus to watch our cable car ride.  And was I relieved that Louie did not ride the cable car with us!  The second the cable car started to move forward, I almost wanted to go back.  The cable car was dangerous!  Even for the extremely adventurous it was still dangerous as I did not expect it to be that high above the cliff with the Loboc River below.  The only security we all had was the strap placed on our laps from one end of the seat to the other and the vertical steel bar in front us.  The cable car was open and you can fall off it if you want to.  I wished the ride would end fast but I have to wait for a little over than three minutes for it to end and ride another three minutes going back.  Whew!  Thank God I survived that ride but I’m thinking of not doing that again if my life depended on it.

Unfortunately for me I did not get to ride the zipline as I was wearing a dress.  Tsk tsk.  I could easily have given up the cable car for the zipline anytime but that day was not for me to ride it.  Better luck next time.  So it was just Ryan, Dad and Undoy – it was his birthday – who got to ride the zipline.  While they were enjoying their zipline ride, we noticed that a Loboc floating restaurant was cruising at the river below, realizing that the cruise ended somewhere below the adventure park.

By the way rates are as follows: P250 per person for the cable car, Hammie rode it for free; P350 for the zipline ride but if you pay for both rides you can save P50.  You can also ride the zipline with a kid at your side if you want to and the price I did not know.  Combo price for one way ride of cable car and zipline ride going back is also available for P350.  The adventure park have their own cameramen to take pictures of the cable car and zipline ride that costs P250 for all pictures burned in a CD with one printed picture of your choice.

My Gleek Mania 2

I really am a great fan of glee songs.  Here is another song I like from the glee season 2.  This is one of their original songs they sang during regionals.  And of course they won.  Rachel made this song out of the heartaches she experienced.  

You can click the song title to go the website where I got the lyrics.  Though I edited the lyrics a little.  Enjoy singing!

Get It Right

What have I done? I wish I could run

Away from this ship goin' under

Just tryin' to help, hurt everyone else

Now I feel the weight of the world is

On my shoulders

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?

When all that you touch tumbles down?

'Cause my best intentions keep makin’ a mess of things

I just wanna fix it somehow

But how many times will it take?

Oh, how many times will it take for me?

To get it right

To get it right

Can I start again with my faith shaken?

'Cause I can't go back and undo this

I just have to stay and face my mistakes

But if I get stronger and wiser

I'll get through this

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?

When all that you touch tumbles down?

'Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things

I just wanna fix it somehow

But how many times will it take?

Oh, how many times will it take for me?

To get it right

So I throw up my fist

Throw a punch in the air

And accept the truth that sometimes life isn't fair

Yeah, I'll send down a wish

Yeah, I'll send up a prayer

Then finally, someone will see

How much I care!

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?

When all that you touch tumbles down?

Oh my best intentions keep making a mess of things

I just wanna fix it somehow

But how many it times will it take?

Oh, how many times will it?

To get it right

To get it right

Bohol Trip Part 2

This blog is the second part of a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!  If you have not read the first part, here's the link : Bohol Trip Part 1


The second day of our Bohol trip was dedicated to the reunion of the Nalzaro Clan.  The day was still cloudy with little rain every now and then.  It was the kind of rain that the old ones would say could cause fever.  But anyway we went to Agahay to join the 4^th Reunion of the Nalzaro Clan.  Before the program began, mass was celebrated by the Nalzaro’s very own priest, Msgr. Feliciano E. Nalzaro Jr.  After which the clan went to the community center to start the reunion proper. It was a simple program where welcome remarks were given, speeches were said, intermission numbers were performed, representatives of each branch were asked to give a short sharing of their take as a Nalzaro, snacks and lunch were served and of course the photo sessions.  

The program was shortened because of the weather but nevertheless everyone enjoyed the gathering.  By 3pm, the reunion ended after Fr. Jun’s closing remarks.  It was the first time for a lot of the attendees to join such event including Bobby Nalzaro’s.  He is a GMA reporter from Cebu and the Nalzaros are so proud of him.

When the reunion was finished, we went back to the Aliguay home and everyone wanted to rest but Ryan and I wanted to go to the city as we need to buy Louie’s medicine for his measles rashes.  Though Louie’s pedia told us that the baby measles is a natural occurrence for babies and we will just support the fever he may have, I did not like the little red dots that created red patches on Louie’s skin.  His fever already subsided even before we arrived at Bohol and as a mom, I asked my hubby that we have to buy a cream to ease the measles.  Louie was not complaining as it was not itchy or bothering him but I did not like it, so my hubby and I went to the mall once again and we went there just the two of us as Kuya Cyrus wanted to rest.  Ryan wanted to try driving the Mits. Adventure and that was his chance. 

Unfortunately, the pharmacy at the mall did not have the cream we were looking for so I bought a little grocery as I need to eat once in a while as Louie is still breastfeeding and he really can drain my energy.  And yeah we stopped by the Buzz Café to get my daily dose of ice cream.  This time I tried the malunggay flavor, and it’s a great flavor!  I can really recommend their ice cream stand when you get to visit Bohol one of these days.  We decided to explore the city for a Mercury Drug or Rose pharmacy as they are the ones that usually have the cream for rashes.  Good thing when we left the mall, we saw a Mercury Drug just about 200 meters from the mall and the cream was available though it costs a whooping P450 but I did not mind as Louie needs it.  We did not stop at Bohol Quality, the other mall anymore as we were press for time to get back to Aliguay as they will use the car in going to a last day vigil of a relative who will be buried the next day.

So when we arrived at Aliguay, we ate dinner and after Louie’s night shower I generously applied the cream all over Louie’s body and prayed that it would helped lessen the redness and the rashes.  We asked not to go to the vigil as there are kids with us and they may be disturbing the wake.  So we slept early as we planned to have an early mass and go somewhere for a great adventure the next day!

Bohol Trip Part 1

This blog is a five part series of out recent Bohol Adventure.  I hope you enjoy reading ad much as we enjoyed out trip.  Happy reading!

I just had a great weekend at Bohol.  My husband Ryan, two sons Hammie and Louie, Dad my father -in-law and the kids’ nanny Lyn went to Bohol last Thursday night May 5 aboard Trans Asia 1.  This trip would be my third time in Bohol.  The last time we went there was on March 2009 and Hammie was the only son back then.  This is Louie’s first trip to Bohol and first boat ride.  This would also be the first trip as a family of four.

I was excited to go there again as I see Bohol as a breath of fresh air from the busy life here in Cagayan de Oro.  Bohol may have a city but it is a far cry from the urbanized city here in CDO which make it attractive to local travelers like me and to foreigners who are looking for a little break.  I can compare Tagbilaran City to Valencia City minus the proximity of Tagbilaran City to beaches.

Well anyway one of the reasons of going to Bohol was to attend the 4th Grand Reunion of the Nalzaro clan which is the family of my husband.  It was the first time that my husband and my father in law to attend such event.  The family reunion was only held for a day on May 7 a Saturday and we were there for four days to also have some time to tour Bohol.

Our boat trip to Bohol was a short one, we left Cagayan de Oro by 7pm and arrived at 330am.  We waited for awhile for Ryan’s cousin Kuya Cyrus and Tiyo Jun who is also a priest to fetch us from the port.  I was a little bit anxious for Louie as his baby measles was starting to come out but good thing about it was that he was not feverish anymore.  His pedia told us to support the fever and just let the measles pass as most babies have it and there’s no cure for it.  But he had a great sleep on the boat as he liked the cold air-condition.  I could tell Hammie was excited as he enjoyed running around the deck we were in, he even woke up by 4am with no problem which is too early for him on a normal day.

We were fetched by almost 5am and first went to Bool where Tiyo Fr. Jun was assigned as a parish priest before going to Aliguay, Maribojoc where the ancestral house of Ryan’s family is located.  It is about 20 kms from Tagbilaran City.  

Ryan and I wanted to go some places that day either site seeing some tourist spots or have a day at the beach but the weather was not so good, it was cloudy and drizzling every now and then.  So we just went to one of the two malls in the city, Island City Mall to buy some necessities, had a little stroll, ate lunch at their food court and had a delicious locally made ice cream.  

I could say that this is the start of our short adventure in Bohol.  We ate lunch at the food court and I was very surprised at the very affordable meals they offer.  We decided to buy a sizzling hot plate of rice toppings where a cup of rice is topped with the viand of your choice.  This comes with a plastic glass of ice tea.  I only bought two meals as Hammie was not eating much and our meal only cost P90!  That is really cheap compared to eating lunch here in CDO at the mall food court as the price for two will not be lower than P100.  

Ryan told me that they have a locally made ice cream from Bohol Bee Farm Buzz Café at the mall so he bought one cone of two scoops (only P50).  It has exotic flavors of durian, ube, buko, pandan, mango, avocado and malunggay (moringa).  He bought avocado as the malunggay flavor was a bit runny.  And it was delicious!  I’m a sucker for ice cream and I could eat that ice cream all day!  What made it tastier was its cone made from cassava (I think) formed into a cone.  Yummy!  If you are wondering what the cone was like, it’s like the local delicacy of a flat, crunchy, cream colored, paper thin made from cassava with caramel syrup on top.  My mom calls it ‘kiping’.  So imagine that turned into a cone (minus the caramel syrup of course) and topped with your favorite ice cream.  Double yummy!

After our dessert we decided to go back to the house and take some nap and relax for the rest of the day as we realized we were tired from the boat trip and wanted to recover our energy for the next three days of fun!

To read on the 2nd part of our trip, click this : Bohol Trip Part 2

My Gleek Mania

My Gleek Mania

I have become a gleek and watched the glee season 2 through the internet and loved their version of the songs.  One song that keeps running through my mind and loved to hear this week is this song: Need You Now which was originally sung by Lady Antebellum.  In glee season 2 episode 11, this song was sung by Finn and Rachel.  I hope you also enjoy this song.

You can click the song title to go the site where I got the lyrics.

Need You Now

Picture perfect memories, scattered all around the floor.

Reaching for the phone cause, I can't fight it any more.

And I wonder if I ever cross your mind.

For me it happens all the time.

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.

I said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now.

And I don't know how I can do without, I just need you now.

Another shot of whiskey, can't stop looking at the door.

Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before.

And I wonder if I ever cross your mind.

For me it happens all the time.

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now.

I said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now.

And I don't know how I can do without, I just need you now.

I guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all.

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now.

And I said I wouldn't call, but I'm a little drunk and I need you now.

And I don't know how I can do without, I just need you now.