Here are some macro photos I took last June. I haven’t uploaded the whole batch but I soon will. I am just using these four images to test on a Widget I downloaded from Wordpress. It seems that it is working fine… Now, this is less work compared to ma making my flash gallery from scratch… but of course, nothing beats a personalized one.

I was soaking wet on the rain when I came home from Pangasinan. I had to take care of business so I left early and the weather was actually nice and sunny. But I should have known better that in the afternoon there is always a chance for rain to pour down. I had to take a taxi to Center Mall where I take a jeepney home to Trinidad. It was already 5 when I got home contrary to what I promised. Mama was unable to take care of Alyssa because of her hyperacidity so Ate Cita had to come and baby sit for me. I was actually glad to see her still home. Since she left after graduating from Nursing, we rarely see each other.

Alyssa on there other hand was very happy to see me. She knows I always have something for her everytime I go out. Tonight, I brought her a Barbie play phone which she really adores. She even went to bed with it. I also bought Cindy’s cake for the whole family.

Except for the weather, everything went smoothly as I expected. ‘tIll my next blog!

I am now a very happy Mom. After three hours at the Dentist’s Clinic (we had to wait for her for at least an hour because she will be coming from another city), we are finally home with Alyssa’s fully fixed tooth. But it was not an easy journey at all… I had to take my Mom with me because I know I needed an assistance in case she does not cooperate. And truly, she didn’t. As soon as she woke up and realized she I am holding her while the dentist was fixing up her tooth, she began crying and kicking. Boy, I didn’t realize how strong she is… I always thought just because she is smaller, she will just be easy to handle. She proved me wrong.

At one point during that 30-minute procedure, I was about to give up. Alyssa was crying and almost gagging. I felt so sorry for her… but then again I was thinking, it should be over in a little bit when I saw her drying up the filling.

It was already raining when we are about to go home. But I still took them to have spaghetti and donuts. My mom was probably hungry, and with her hyperacidity I know she had to have something… and Alyssa was hungry too. Now, I really feel so good. And so as Rolly. I am just glad I pushed through with the decision rather than waiting until I take her back hoe to California…

I am feeling sad and sorry about my daughter’s incident today. I bought her plastic toys to play with and because I took off her pacifier a week ago, she still puts stuff on her mouth just for relief. And she has been doing that and nothing ever happened. Today however is one bad day, as she was biting on one of her toys, she chipped one of her front teeth. She got startled because I heard her cry out a muffle. When I turned around I saw her holding the inside of her mouth. It didn’t take me long to realize that about one-fourth of her tooth is hanging.

I panicked. I am not used to handling anything that I know might hurt her. I started calling out for my Mom, and while we were looking at it I started to cry. I know I had to take her to the Dentist so I changed her diapers, changed my clothes and hurried to my dentist-friend’s clinic two kms away from my parent’s house. She assessed the situation of the tooth and she said that she has to do filling. We tried to do it a while ago but Alyssa was fuzzy. So I made a decision not to let her take a nap tomorrow morning so on her appointment time of 2:00 pm, she should be taking a longer nap.

Knowing though that it can be fixed didn’t relieve me from frustration. I felt like the more I take precaution on everything she does, and the more I follow her on her every moves something always happen. I know she is not bothered by it, probably because the crack didn’t reach the pulp of her tooth. The dentist even told me just to leave it as is because it is a milk tooth. But I just couldn’t. If I will place myself on Alyssa’s situation, I wouldn’t feel comfortable neither.

I can’t wait to have it fixed. Just like that time she fell and hit her cheek on the chair… I thought she will be having an ugly scar. I had to drag Rolly to the Dr’s clinic and even with Dr Gracia’s reassurance that it will fade away, I was still being pessimistic until one day I couldn’t even pinpoint where she got a cut. I told my Mom, “wake me up when it is over.”

I was unable to blog last night because I slept well trying to shot three birds with one stone. I was reading on scripts and programming, updating my www.GraphiTea.com site after I forgot the password, and upgrading this site. I chose to do it at close to midnight because me internet connection is faster and adding to that, Alyssa is fast asleep she doesn’t mind me doing something else. I convinced myself I will finish everything in an hour, and so I thought! Problems began to pop out, my FTP connection is breaking every ten minutes and my upgrade was not going well they way it should be. And I was of course being a smart so I did not back up my files. After I uploaded the new version of wordpress, my website is coming up with an error. I was getting impatient… and I said, I will sit here and fix things up without sleeping if that’s the last thing I have to do. That exactly what happened!

At about 4:40 in the morning, I was already in bed. My toes are really cold… but I am happy I was able to troubleshoot the problem. I also finished updating my GraphiTea site and I would say, it rather look refreshing on it’s green interface. If not because of the problems that happened, I would have personalized the template… but I think it just perfect as it is right now. So if you get the chance, feel free to take a glimpse of how it looks like by clicking here!