Christmas

I never get to document the grand Christmas get together because I'm usually too busy eating. This year was no different, except this time it wasn't because I was busy being a glutton. I was busy changing diapers :/

I was able to get a few random photos of the days before and after the 25th, though.

I helped my mother with her decorations this year. She wanted everything to be red, because that's the color that D responds to the most. I suggested paper pompoms and got a DIY tutorial off Martha Stewart's website. My mother being my mother, went overboard. I was thinking "simple pompoms in muted colors suspended on top of the dining table". She envisioned "horn of plenty" type tableaus; a mess of pompoms paired with red stars, ornaments, lights and glittery branches. So I thought since we were already going in the direction of crazy why not add glittery insects to the mix. Mother loved the idea. So we bought plastic insects from a toy store and rendered them gay. We were toying with the idea of adding glitter cobwebs but the father put his foot down.

It looks pretty, I admit. My mother's always been a maximalist. Minimalist daughter, Norma Desmond mother. Story of my life.

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I couldn't let the season pass without bibingka and puto bumbong. 

Traditional cakes made of rice, topped with grated coconut and muscovado sugar. This plate was disappointingly bland.

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On Christmas day we took D shopping. I got him some much needed clothes and tried out a bumbo seat at Mothercare. He can't really sit up well yet so we didn't buy it.

We also got him a book. The coolest book ever:

Yeah, watch us force our nerdness onto the poor kid.