Movie Watching Indulgence

Well, it has been days since I've treated myself to watching numerous movies and setting aside my goal to finish my blog not later than our baby's big day. Hmmm.... let me think..... I have, just more than a month to finish it.... and here I am again, blogging about other things..... well, I think I just can't let this pass.

If I remember it right, I think I had started my movie-watching indulgence last Friday night. I had started with Burlesque starring Cristina Aguillera. The movie was just like Moulin Rouge except that the former has a better story. I find Cristina's acting O.A. but I love his love-interest partner there. While the movie was on-going, the back of mind was saying, "crap! I'm wasting my time!". And as if somebody has heard me, the movie stopped in the middle part. I realized that I was watching a CD copy only and that the downloaded movie wasn't complete. The time was already 11PM and I could just turn off my laptop to sleep but I somehow felt compelled to finish it even though the ending of the movie was too predictable but I don't know, I just finished it. How? well.... the beauty of internet and the Google search engine. I foundnd sites that allowed the movie to be played through internet streaming. So that was it, I finished it! However, still I regretted wasting my time watching it. Crazy me, huh?

I wasn't able to continue my indulgence momentum the following night as my baby didn't allow me to do so. So I had it on the afternoon of the following day. I watched.... hhmmm...... I forgot....wait for a sec...oh yeah! I remember it now. Just like the movie is unforgettable, no wonder I find it hard to remember now. I watched The Last Song movie of Miley Cyrus. Yikes! I don't like her! I don't like watching her crooked teeth (oooppsss!!! heheheh sorry!!!). I don't like watching her trying to act as a tough teen. She came out trying too hard to act.  However, the movie made me feel as a teen again.. hahahahha!!!! I miss those times!!!

That same night, since my baby slept earlier than usual, I was able to watch Eat Pray and Love by Julia Roberts. The movie run approximately 2hours which just made me sleep late, again! It was just okay. I think the movie fits for those established single women who are at a loss of their track. Maybe this movie will enlighten them. It's a simple, complicated thinking movie. It opens you to a world of a person who has it's unique complex problem when on the other side of the world there are just people who simply are having problems of transversing their everyday lives and of having difficulty making their ends meet. It just made you realize that everyone has it's own purpose on this world, that nobody's perfect and that every person has its own puzzle to solve.

Last night and I hope that was the end of my indulgence, I watched Remember Me of Robert Pattinson. I guess, I have made a good choice of choosing that movie as a closing of  my movie-watching spree because I was moved by it. I was kind of expecting a light-romantic-drama movie considering Rob is there but I was wrong. The story's conflicts are deep and I have to say that Rob did a good job in acting his role. I conclude that the movie is nice. Oh, by the way! the way Robert acted his drinking of the beer and carrying his cigarette smoking, I kinda have a feeling that he's a smoker in real life? because he seems to act it naturally. Anyways, that was it my movie-watching spree.

Diet Guilt

What could be guiltier than  forgetting your diet! Yes, I grossly forgot my diet-watch tonight. It started  with eating Julie's Spanish bread just a few minutes before taking my supper. I just so miss the taste of Spanish bread and was hoping it would be like that of Charito's (back then in Labogon) though it was still delicious but it wasn't what I had expected.

Then I ate creamy mongoes soup with pork and I think I ate more than a cup of rice with it.

Jaiden and I went to the basketball court in our subdivision for his wobbly-walking enjoyment. there were many children playing because their guardians were waiting to attend the Novena Mass for our upcoming patron saint's fiesta. Mama followed suit and brought our Abaniko fan since it was very humid. Then I remember mama said that she likes to eat Cornetto so I asked her to get some money to buy as my treat. However, it was me who bought it and I was tempted to eat but they only had Magnolia drumstick - a P33 compared to Cornetto's only P20. So I only bought one and bought Josh and myself their fruit-salad-iced-candy instead . Jaiden obviously has no diet regimen so he gobbled almost half of mama's drumstick ice cream. Mama was just okay with it because she likes vanilla but I bought a chocolate flavor. Jaiden wasn't able to consume it all, so I ended up finishing it. Gosh!!! I had too much sweets for the night!!!

When I weighed myself, disappointingly I am 112 lbs. AGAIN!!!!   HHHaaayyyysssttt.........

The Journey - to A Breakthrough?

Other than my hubby and I are the most concerned persons when it comes to our baby, my mother is also. Perhaps among us in the house, she is the most concerned after all. I know that she takes care of our baby like her own, that she wants our baby to be beautiful and as much as possible be flawless when he grows up. Like, it was she who initiated the wearing of socks of all time so that our baby's feet wouldn't be calloused and most of all to have his feet be good-as-newborn-like. These are one of those of my mother's care gestures. With this I'm very lucky and forever grateful to her.

What she's most concerned of is our baby's constipation. It's undeniable that she's the forefront witness of our baby's agony whenever he disposes his wastes. It's my mother who's now the direct caretaker of our baby almost all the time. She spends eight to nine hours a day six days a week with our baby. So somehow her suggestions does matter regarding our baby's welfare most and if not some of the time. We already had our baby regularly take Lactulose lilac as laxative to help ease his constipation. Though our baby can dispose but he still passes a clay-like mixture - still not a soft stool. Out of desperation, my mother suggested that we try rice porridge since it alleviated (per our neighbor but I doubt it)our neighbor's baby's constipation. Since we always want the best for our baby, per my research, brown rice porridge is better than white rice porridge. So I asked my hubby to buy the brown.

I believe that department store groceries won't sell for just a one-fourth kilo, so my hubby bought two kilos for a price almost two times higher than the ordinary rice. I was excited for the outcome of our baby's waste and I believe my mother is much more excited. However, we were just disappointed because our baby didn't eat the porridge. Even though my mother mixed it with Gerber exotic fruit mixtures (our baby's favorite) but still our baby didn't eat it. Actually, after cooking it to make it into a creamy, yummy porridge, we crushed it further in the blender to make a better smoothie. Yet, our baby didn't like it. I can just imagine how disappointed my mother was. But you really can't force an already-hungry-whining baby. Hence, my mother ended up letting him eat his favorite Cerelac. Personally, I didn't think that the rice porridge would ease our baby's constipation but it is what my mother suggested so I gave in after all there's no harm in trying and I think that it's high time also for our baby to be exposed to different kinds of food.

With the failure rice porridge, my mother later suggested to change our baby's milk which my hubby and I had been considering also. So we sort of made a decision in unison last week to buy another brand of milk. However, we were in for a much disappointment (it has been featured here).  I feel it's a much disappointment because the costly-brand new milk (though Similac is costlier) is just put to waste. However, my cost-conscious mother thought of  finding ways to let our baby consume it though it'll be a very slow consumption. Well, I guess it's really part of the cost of having a baby. Anyways, the papa/my hubby was just no-comment and didn't have any disturbing reaction of what had just unfolded. It's that  how he loves so much our baby - anything for our baby!!

My hubby also bought ripe papayas when he bought the brown rice. He was hoping to have it mixed with the brown rice porridge but my mother wasn't able to do it because the papayas weren't that over ripe to mix. Somehow, it was a good thing it wasn't included in the waste brown rice porridge. When the papayas were that in good ripeness, my mother little by little introduced the fruit to our baby. Still my baby doesn't like it. I noticed that whenever any of us eat something like a bread, chicos or tambis our baby would grab the food for a bite. He would try to swallow it with delight and with a happy-feeling-part-of-the-group face. He isn't choosy then. So I came into realization that maybe somebody has to eat the papaya so that our baby would also be delighted to eat it. So that was what we did and our baby did eat. However, he won't eat it when it's being spoon-feed to him. I think it's all in his mind. He has this notion that when it's a spoon-feed he expects a food to be that tasty like his favorite Cerelac but is just disappointed to learn that it's a papaya. So he won't eat the papaya then. But lately, my mother forced him to take the papaya and my mother was able to let him eat five teaspoonful of pure ripe papaya.

A probable breakthrough because our baby disposed a just-enough-softness waste. My mother was sure it's because of the papaya because she said she can smell the papaya in our baby's waste. Take note my mother has a sinusitis so she can't smell that easily. So the smell of the papaya in our baby's waste must've been that significant for her to recognize it.

We already know that papaya should have been the cure from the start but our baby won't really eat it. I guess it was the confidence of having him take the laxative drug and the hope that maybe his constipation would ease up when he'll come of age. However, now that he's already ten months old and the situation hasn't lighten up, we believe that we need to do more. And this  is when my mother said she has to forced our baby to eat at least five teaspoonfuls of ripe papayas.  Our baby is also battling his taste buds to swallow the fruit. There'll be lots of coercion but this will be my mama's formula in battling our baby's constipation- could this now be our breakthrough? Let's see!!!! fingers crossed!!! 

Changing His Milk

 We bought a new formula milk for the reason that it might be the culprit of his unceasing constipation (it was mentioned here).  I didn't expect he wouldn't like the taste because Enfapro A+  has a better taste than that of Similac HW or Nan2 HW. The former tastes creamy while the two latter brands are just bland and has a bitter after-taste. However, our baby really knows what he's used to. He really wouldn't take the milk  despite his sleepiness no matter how hard we tried coaxing him. He ended up whining and fell asleep with an empty tummy because his papa is still driving on his way to Robinson's Talisay to buy his usual milk (Similac HW). About thirty minutes after, he half-awake due to his probably growling tummy just in time to fed for his (just prepared) much-awaited milk.

I don't know how do we go about with his constipation, much more with the Enfapro A+ we've bought.