Pinay Mom on Motherhood, Etc.

At three and a half years old, Angel has a sense already of what taking pictures is all about.  He knows that after I click the camera, he can look at the LCD screen of the camera and see his picture.  He also knows mom loves to take pictures of him, so he loves to make funny faces trying to frustrate me as I click away.  Just a sample…

I don’t know how it is to grow up an only child because I grew up as the eldest of a brood of 3 which eventually became 4 as I turned 18. But I am raising an only child.

I’m writing this blogpost while trying to keep an eye on Angel in a mall play area. He has been trailing a months-old baby girl twaddling about with her Dad tailing her. He seems so enamored by the little girl that not even a warning from me that her Dad might not like him hovering over the little girl would make him leave the girl alone. I can’t help but wonder how he would be with a sibling. Then again I have to remind myself I am now 41 and the economic reality of it is that I don’t think we would be able to raise a household with two children as comfortably as we have with just one.

I am only too well aware that my boy is obviously starved for playmates, a craving which I am hoping his being in pre-school has helped stave off. I am trying very hard to provide him with the social skills to help him get past the lack of siblings to interact with. He’s doing alright so far. He’s left the little girl alone and is back to climbing and sliding — that’s my little boy..