This is Efren, the most beautiful queen in the world. Everytime I go to see a beautician, I always ask him to do the job for me. Way back in 1989, Chana, the fairy godmother, would always cut my hair. Then one day he cut my hair really short, and I was very disappointed. He told me he didn’t hear me good, when I told him how I wanted my hair to be styled; so I got disappointed, and I never asked for his services again. He-he…chika…. Maria and Bianca had their first haircut in a beauty parlor, while we were in the Philippines. I didn’t think to consider their first professional haircut ...

My husband and I had a busy day today. He is off from work, so he helped me with my errands. Today is my daughter’s 4th birthday. First thing in the morning, we dropped off Maria and Bianca at their schools. Then we went to pick up the cake, and we bought a present for Bianca. She had a simple birthday celebration at her school. I brought a sort-of-cake made of cup cakes and juices only for her classmates. Bianca’s birthday cake theme was the Yo Gabba Gabba. She is a huge fan of this hilarious television show. She watches it all, over and over, on netflix. She was with me when I ordered he...

I love to watch my girls playing dress up in costumes, building and playing in a playhouse made out of blankets or playing with dolls. I have always pushed both of them to play with the girly things, but Maria has very little interest. I am not sure if pushing them toward the girly things has a negative effect on them, but I have not noticed anything negative that I know of. Anyway, for the past two weeks, this is what Bianca did. She loves to play with dolls and create a playhouse made out of blankets. Of course, I had to help her to build these playhouses, otherwise she would not stop buggin...

All children advance through the stages of their development and accomplish things at different ages. I introduced my eldest daughter Maria to the alphabet when she turned two, then she started reading about four months later. I don’t know how she did it, but she really began to read sentences. With my second child, Bianca, I did the same thing, but she wasn’t as enthusiastic as her big sister. Everytime, when we would start our reading session, she showed very little interests. She had a low tolerance for doing things other than what she wanted to do, and she still does. She would o...

It has happened about two times that Bianca has chopped off her own hair. The last time she cut it real short. There was a lot of hair that she cut off. Her style of cutting made it look funky and funny. I wasn’t mad, because she was being creative and curious. After she cut her hair, she gave me a big smile. There are so many moments that she just cracks me up! Today, she surprised me with a hair cut for her doll’s hair. She told me there was nothing to be worried about, because she cut it just a little. She also painted her doll’s chick bone with a colored pen. She said she wa...