Before I lay my back to sleep, after checking, replying, composing all the emails, adding highschool schoolmates in friendster, checking out the Entrepreneur forum, I have to write this blog entry.. Hehehe…
Well, early this afternoon, I went downstairs to go to the bathroom. While I was emptying my bladder, I heard little CJ cry. I was kinda alarmed with her wailing as I remembered she was just there in the living room busy, accompanied by her Yaya Jenelyn and the neighbor’s househelp Leah, watching Wowowee and playing with her toys. When I got out of the bathroom, I asked Jenelyn why the baby was crying. She told me that CJ cried because she saw Willie crying while hugging a 3 year old boy in Las Vegas. Willie first sang "Unang Pasko" with all the lights dimmed in the Las Vegas venue. Then a 3 year old boy came in front and approached Willie handing him green money. Willie reached out for the boy’s hand and hugged him to tears. I guess, Willie felt for the song because he might not be spending their first Christmas together with his wife. It is being rumored that Willie and wife Liza are separated.
Maybe, my baby CJ probably got carried away by the crying scene. Her sobbing turned to crying then to weeping and wailing. While CJ was there crying, Jenelyn, Leah and I couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing. My daughter… Oh my baby… I was having mixed emotions then. I pity my child coz her face turned red and red spots apprear in her forehead. It’s a sign that she’s really upset. She’s first had these spots when her Lolo Popoy joked her, saying, "Gusto mo Palo!". She was just 5 months old then but very sensitive at that very young age. I was also laughing because I couldn’t believe that my baby would make a big deal out of Willie. Maybe she understands what’s happening. She’s been watching Wowowee almost everyday since she’s learned to watch TV. She sees Willie making people happy everyday but now, she’s bothered with Willie’s unlikely sad and gloomy expression. She kept on crying althroughout the program’s ad spiel. Her cry got louder when she saw Willie again on TV, now on the regular program, as they prepare for the Bayong game. The Unang Pasko video clip actually came in late. The Las Vegas show was featured last Saturday, Sept. 9 here in Manila.
CJ’s probably got her sensitivity to her daddy. Jonjon recalls that when he was 3 years old, he suddenly cries whenever he hears the Rock-A-Bye Baby Song especially in the part, "when the bough breaks the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all". I don’t remember me crying over a song when I was a kid. But yes, i realized, the Rock-A-Bye Baby song is violent. Jonjon would disagree about CJ’s attributing her sensitivity from him. Jonjon jokes me, mas sensitive daw ako kaysa sa kanya. 
CJ, however irky she may be, is very easy to pacify. When she gets her shots from the pediatrician, she just cries a big bit but then we can easily distract her with a toy or an action song, If You’re Happy and You Know It. I could remember, she was just one day old when her sole was punctured
by the nurse to get blood samples for the congenital screening test.
There was just a big wail, then none. Wallah! Now, we offered her milk as she might be somehow sleepy. She said yes but cried again. Sang her some lively songs but it didn’t work. Finally, I thought of Barney. That did it.
CJ is a certified Barney’s fan. The first DVD she saw was More Songs from Barney. She was 13 months old then. Jonjon and I were actually opposed to her watching TV at first especially on a early age but the household was excited to see CJ strut her stuff while watching Barney. She’s memorized the sequence of the whole 50-minute show. She knows what comes next after each sequence and now at 1 yr. 8 months, she’s humming and saying the last word of every phrase in the song. She has developed a lot because of the Barney stimulation but up to now, Jonjon frowns on seeing Barney on TV. He likes Elmo and the Sesame Street better.
Speaking of Barney, CJ today spoke of the words: "I love you!" She came to me while I was sitting on the dining table early this evening after wrapping up my stuff. Sitting on my lap, she said, "Ay lab yu", smiled and hugged me. And around 8pm when her daddy came home, she approached him with the same words with her sweet smile. She told these words to Lolo Popoy and Lola Ching as well. She spoke of it as if knowing its meaning. Spoke of it not merely as the start of the popular Barney song which she really loves but saying it from her heart.
Sob.
