Christmas, at least in our family, officially ends only when all our balikbayans have gone home (and what a blast we had when they were here! See my sis Tina’s related post, January 11). So here I am again, back to my semi-normal kind of life with husband, little munster and the dogs.

Speaking of the little munster. For some reason, he finds it amusing to climb on my lap and press the space bar every time he sees me happily tapping away at the keyboard. He is doing it again as I type.

Since I just lost my trail of thought, allow me to write about this instead:

PABLO'S 10 MOST ANNOYING HABITS:

1. Makes sure that his dad and I wake up as soon as he does -- by poking our eyes and nostrils. (Never mind that he woke us up for his dawn feeding).
2. Tries to catch your attention from afar and puckers up for a kiss, only to turn his head away when you are all puckered up too, and only inches away from his face.
3. PRETENDS to write on the wall, eat off the floor, pull electric cords and bang on the plates – just to get a kick out of seeing your horrified reaction. Then laughs.
4. Covers his face with both hands when not in the mood for a photo shoot.


5. Sucks the saltiness out of butong pakwan, and puts them back in the container along with the untouched ones.
6. Refuses to wear his shoes when you need him to, and insists on wearing the same ones when he is all clean and ready for bed.
7. Not only hogs our bed before bedtime, but claims all our 4 pillows too.
8. His default answer to any question is "no".
9. If the question happens to be “do you want to taste this”, he remembers how fond he is of food and changes his mind after you’ve eaten the piece you offered.
10. If the question happens to be “do you want to watch barney”, he waits until after you’ve settled on a nice tv program before he makes a fuss and decides to watch barney after all…

You get the drift.

Reviewing the list I made above just reminded me how totally adorable he is. Guess it’s time for another battle of power with that little imp.