Happy Birthday Rupert!
see the similarity?
My son just turned nine this week. This post is a tribute to him because he has specifically asked me to feature him in my website. Why not? Though he fills my days with stressful battles over meals, homeworks, intellectual and religious discussions, sibling relationship, computer use, and many other things, I really am very proud of this little boy.
What makes him special? I asked him that question months ago. He answered without thinking, “I am special because I can cook rice.” Knowing that my son appreciates the skill that I taught him drove my happiness level to the roof. He must have been listening to my conversation with another mother at a children’s party. You know how moms are. They like to brag about their children. This particular mom was going on and on about how her son and her two daughters are so smart. They get high grades and play the violin. “Infact”, she added, “they have played at the Walt Disney Music Hall”. I was genuinely impressed. My son’s accomplishments were more modest by comparison. I told her how he was “Student of the Month” at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School and how ecstatic I was because I never expected it. Then I told her that he already knows how to “tig-ang” or cook rice at eight years old. Her mouth dropped open in shock. She was visibly impressed. “Sobra ka man imo. Ang bata ko gani nga mas magulang indi pa kabalo.“, she slapped my shoulder in disbelief. “Well, I plan to teach him how to clean fish when he turns nine. I have psychologically prepared him for that developmental task”, I continued. Now that he is nine, I have a fishscaler ready for him. I will give it to him today. He can look at it and touch it for a week. Enough time for him to absorb the idea that his mom is serious about teaching him how to clean fish.
LIST OF RUPERT’S ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR
1. Yellow belt in Taekwondo
2.Student of the Month
3. He will take a test to qualify for the gifted program in his school
4.He joined the choir
5. He joined the Adventurers Club
6. He knows how to float and hold his breath in the pool
7. He knows how to cook rice
8. He makes his own sandwhich when he is hungry
9. Graduated from shoes with velcro straps to shoes with laces
10. He has his own blog
11. He read the scriptures in front of the whole church congregation without mumbling the words
12. Tried soccer and basketball
13. Overcame fear of Basti, Tita Lisa’s tiny dog
paguntingi bi sang daw gwapo gwapo nga haircut. kalaw-ay sang paya. mas nami kung cleancut or something to make him more gwapito.
wala ka bala kabalo nga amo ina ang haircut ya sang gin approach kami sang talent agent kag gin invite sia nga mag audition sa isa ka commercial?
Wow! Your mommy-pride is making his hair stand in static electricity. Congratulations, you. And happy birthday, Rupert!
Good job about the tinig-ang. At least he’ll never go hungry wherever he finds himself. Woog’s chores are to set the table and sweep the dining room floor. We’re working up toward washing dishes as soon as he can stop breaking the plates.
Love the fish-scaler integration theory. I just hope you don’t catch him scratching his butt with it.
observation stage pa lang kami sa fish cleaning. Indi pa hands on.
Yehey!nalipat gd ko na May bday boy gali c rupert ah.
Happy birthday,pert!remember mo pa ang 1st movie experience mo with me?happy feet gd to,and u were screaming with glee gd when mambu was chased by d sea lion.
Baw,chic.init2 gd ko na sanguna sg gna patinlo nyo ko ni bambi isda mo,feeling ko slavedrivers kamu.
ping, rite of passage ta ina ya nga mga seaside dwellers. You can never truly be a dumangasanon unless you know how to clean labadors of fish from d punong.when rupert makes digwa sounds I tell him that his mother was raised on fish and i will raise him the same way.