Davao Part III

The faces.

There was Tita Lani, who was staying at Aunt Mila's house, Mon, Aunt Mila's son, and Celine, or Tekla, whom she first met. She enjoyed Celine's company so much that when we went to meet my friends, she wanted to go back to Aunt M's house to play with Celine. She told me later on that they went to a party, it wasn't really a party, it was a prayer meeting.

Vanessa and Patricia were her constant playmates in Davao. She can't pronounce Patricia correctly, it comes out sounding like "Patisya". Hehehehe. And when we call Patricia Patisya, she gets mad and says, "it's Patisya, not Patisya."

At J's wedding, my friend D's younger sister, she played with Paolo, D's son. D was surprised that Paolo played with her, saying that Paolo doesn't usually play with kids and considering Paolo is about 9 or 10 years old. Or maybe she thought Paolo was her cousin Paolo, her only boy cousin or so she thought. She loves hanging out with cousin Paolo, too.

Other cousins that she met were Liana, Andrea and Alyssa. Of the 3 sisters, I think she favored Alyssa. Christmas party, we rented a Videoke Machine. Vanessa sang Ocho ocho pasko na. And they taught Meg the dance steps for that song. I won't try and describe how it goes, but it was really funny! She later on wanted to sing, too. I told her she has to sing loud so she can't get a high score!

We went to Lupon and met more cousins. She liked playing Chloe and was mad when other cousins called Chloe "Kweng kweng". What is it with us Pinoys, we racked our brains for that perfect name for our babies and then call them these names? I'm guilty of that, when Megan was still a baby we called her Gantut and sometimes we still do.

More cousins from Lupon, there's AC, Pauline and Gian. Gian teased her. I don't know how it started but they started calling Megan "meegan" and this made her really mad. So mad, that she came crying to me. I have to explain that they were just teasing her and that is what cousins are for. To play with, to tease with, and sometimes to fight with. Right? Right!

At Pearl Farm, she was with cousins, Cheska and Koojee. The first time Cheska saw Meg was when they went swimming at Apo View. Cheska made this comment, "Yung bata, gikuha ang float ko." Or something like that. We tried to explain to Cheska that the "bata" is her cousin Megan, but she remembered Meg as the "bata" who took her float. Hehehehe!