Kristo the songwriter

Last night during study time, I tried to teach my five year old Kristo the Skidamarink song. (Skidamarink a dinky dink, Skidamarink a doo, I – love – you!) After I sang it he said “Wait mom, let’s make music” and then he ran to get his pencil case and took out two of his pencils. Then he lined up our pillows, and it seemed like he was trying to make a make shift drum kit. He then looked at me and said “sing mom! sing the skidamarink” so I did. A few lines into the song he started drumming away on our pillows!

After Skidamarink, we thought of singing “billy jean” (one his fave MJ songs, I don’t know why). Right after Billy Jean, he said “Mom, we should practice for the concert” and I’m like, “what concert?!” and he said “my concert!” hhhmmm…ok. Then he said, “we should sing MY SONG!” and I asked which song of course. He sang a part of the song to me and I’m like…wow! It was the same song he sang months and months ago while we were stuck in traffic. He said he made that song. He sang it again a couple of months ago and said the same thing, that he composed the song. So i said, cool, let’s do it, except I don’t know all the lyrics. So he said let’s write it down! When I was ready with my pen and paper I asked him to sing it so I could write down the lyrics and he said “no. write this.” In the air he drew a G-clef! So I wrote a G-clef on the paper and he said “there! that’s it!” and then he asked me to write lines…ok, so if you have no idea about what I’m talking about it looked something like this:

Part of a music sheet

Then he started drawing notes in the air and I just lost track of what he was drawing in the air coz there were notes everywhere! Haha! At that point I told him that I’d just take his video so I have a copy of his song and I can study it. Here’s the song I’ve been talking about on video!

(I know it’s dark, but you can hear him and see him a bit. I totally forgot to switch on the lights in the room! Enjoy!)

ahhh yes, first day of school!

Kristo’s first day at school, again.

Kristo and Nanay

Kristo isn’t the only one excited! This was taken BEFORE 7am!

I love how their uniform at Light of the World Christian Academy of Makati is Blue and White — Kristo’s favorite colors!!! That’s one of the reasons why he was excited to shower and get dressed!

Starting the day with a prayer…

I was thrilled to see that I know the principal of Light of the World! Mrs. Joy Muleta is the wife of Pastor Manny Muleta of Victory Fort. Pastor Manny was one of my teachers when I went to Every Nation Leadership Institute! It was also a joy to see the kids starting their day with a prayer!

teacher asking about the kids’ breakfast!

Can you find our little man Kristo?

prayer time!

Can you see Kristo now?

There he is!

That’s Kristo introducing himself to the class Thing is, his classmates found it a bit difficult to pronounce his name, so they kinda ended up calling him several names like Kristi AND Kristina! He didn’t look pleased at all BUT……

When I went to pick Kristo up from school, his teacher’s exact words were:

Kristo is very good. He is wise and knows how to follow instructions!

wooohoooo! My heart skipped a beat when she said that! yeeepeeee! What a great first day!

with mama

As soon as we got home, Kristo’s grandma’s FIRST QUESTION  was NOT “How was school?” rather it was “MAY MAGANDA KA BANG CLASSMATE?” (Do you have a pretty classmate?) Thanks mom!

with my not so little boy

As we were walking home (Light of the World is just 2 streets away from our place), I asked Kristo how his first day was. His answer: “IT WAS GREAT!!!” (and yes, he said it with soooo much enthusiasm! I’m glad!)

Good.  It looks like he really did have a GREAT first day!

I’m excited for him…I’m excited for us… and I’m excited to get rid of that ghastly belly I’ve got! Find out what this mommy is doing to FINALLY, REALLY, SERIOUSLY get in shape — to prepare for the wedding and yes, by God’s grace next year (after the wedding of course!), ANOTHER BABY!!! woohooo!