Ah yes, nothing like kids to make the holidays full of ruckus and laughter. One of the reasons why Christmas 2007 was noisier and rowdier for the Morales household is the fact that all our nephews and nieces were in Manila. Yup, including these two kids who we usually see once every two years.
Noah was just a baby when he left Manila. Now he's growing up to be a very precocious little boy. (He doesn't want to be called "Baby" - that's so typical of American youngsters.) Since he's been raised in the U.S., he doesn't speak Tagalog but he can understand the vernacular quite well. To his credit, though, he has all his respectful suffixes intact. Like most Pinoy kids, he says "po" with every sentence. Sometimes, he adds them too much, though.
When I treated them to dinner at McDonald's, Noah told me: "Tito po, thank you po for buying us dinner po."
Kai-kai, on the other hand, is definitely in the tween stage. She's still a kid in many respects: she asks Biboy to carry her when she's tired, she likes snuggling up to her parents, and she enjoys collecting Hello Kitty stuff. But her fashion sense is now crossing the teen stage. In fact, when she'd go shopping with my Ates (who are in their 30s), she'd look for the exact clothes my Ates would be wearing. Ergo, no more pink and frou-frou dresses for her. In fact, the dress she's wearing in this photo is one I bought at YRYS!
Like any Tito, I can't help but be amazed at how fast these kids are growing. Heck, our first batch nephews and nieces (Jul, Carl, Kevin and Princess) are practically adults! The boys and I now wear the same size of clothes, which explains why some of my shirts and jackets have found themselves in Georgia!
Speaking of cute-ness, I found another cute sibling shot while cleaning up my files. There's a certain symmetry to this shot and it looks like a pyramid and a circle at the same time. Gosh, in a few years time, Noah and Kai will probably be as big as us and they'll have a sibling picture like this as well.
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