At the later part of the day we’ve had a simple dinner with few invited friends and relatives. Special guests of course are the kids whom she personally requested so she can give away balloons and loot bag for each as well as share her birthday cake and ice cream with.

There’s her blowing her candle…

The colorful loot bags…

Now here comes the funny part… kids had to make a line and find their place according to their height otherwise she won’t start giving the bags. Mean? Ha-ha-ha! But she ended up helping them out anyway.

And then there’s us when I finally got a solo chance with her and with Ina, Jam’s little sister as our photographer.

Linking to Colorful Weekend and Mellow Yellow Monday

From left — my niece Ina, my sister Joyce, mom, Thea (my younger sister), Jim (my brother), Jam (Ina’s older sister) and their baby brother RJ.

After having a rain shower- filled Friday brought by the storm WASHI, locally known as typhoon Sendong, the sun surprisingly shone for the kids at Assumption Academy of Compostela (my Alma Mater) who were all so excited to witness the popular Jolibee and Hetty tandem to perfom live at the AAC gymnasium in line with the school’s 50th Founding Anniversary yesterday.

The two were invited by the school to entertain the kids while the Jollibee store staffs at their post are selling Pinoy kids’ favorite meals – yum burger and spaghetti!

Here are some photos from yesterday’s event…

Jollibee (red) and Hetty (pink) danced to the tune of medley for their giddy spectators.

The two shaking hands with the kids.

Jollibee and Hetty blowing everyone’s kisses just before they stepped down the stage after their dance number.

There’s us watching the show.

And here’s another pose before having our Jollibee meals (from left) mom, my nieces Jam, Inah, Bernadette, MJ and my big sister Joyce. This was after the show. Shh!! We invaded the school’s elementary library yesterday instead of using the school canteen and other allotted areas for dining. Kidding aside, it’s my mom’s temporary office after hers was given to the new set of Alumni officers. She shall be having a new one anytime next week.

Anyway, we then headed home after taking our meals. I checked the Internet and it’s still out. (The reason why was posted here.) I played games a bit – just to have something to do before boredom set in. It didn’t help. I texted the sister…  I volunteered to babysit for the rest of the day. It worked, LOL!

On the picture is my niece Inah (left), Elijah (right), the baby nephew, RJ and moi.

That wrapped up our Saturday! I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend as well.

Linking to Colorful Weekend.

Well at moms is where they get to play indoor and outdoor games and to mine for the online ones. Thank God I already had my old desktop computer fixed. I have weeks left to download new games for them. This time I might also include bingo games for kids if not print some printable bingo cards… colorful ones.  Or maybe take them to online bingo game site for kids sometimes to let them see and experience the difference.

This game had taken a long way so far being a new addition to their recreation activities during their free time. Mom will take home some bingo cards from school they can play with together on weekends.

By the way, my mom is retired high school teacher. But at 56 she is still very much capable to teach so she took the part-time job from the same school and this time teaching elementary pupils. Every once in a while they organize a Bingo day as fun way of educating their students. They also have started making it part of their activities on some important school occasions too like Teacher’s Day, Parent’s Day, School Foundation Days and Fiestas.

Bingo games are fun way of reinforcing the basics of any subjects and not to mention how it teaches the kids the virtue of patience. Perhaps there are only few people around especially parents realizes it. But it’s about time we stop looking at Bingo the conventional way – a game played by spectacled old women in large halls filled with smoke. Whether we like it or not, time is changing and along with that change comes also the advent of online bingo sites which are liked by millions of kids all over the world.