Erika's World

I was away for about two weeks from my country so after came back home I hurriedly access the internet and I was disgusted to know this blog was down because the very first page I see was I need to install the wordpress platform that I’m using. I contacted the hosting provider of this blog and they fixed the problem. After checking everything I learned that this site was down for many days.

Another trouble I experience with this blog is when I updated the wordpress to its latest version. After upgrading  the blog is showing but I can’t enter the admin panel for the reasons that it only shows a white page so I need to restore the back up files thru backup restore of my control panel but it seems like backup file is inappropriate so I tried to contact the hosting but they want the backup file to be converted to another format which I cannot do. After many trials and errors I felt a little contentmen after I retrieved the old post and comment thru phpmyadmin but not the uploaded pictures. Now I’m posting the photos for all the post manually.

My Mother and my Father with me on my wedding day.

I don’t know how to begin with this. It was three years ago when me and my elder sister went back to my country because my mother died of stroke.  I  always remember her last words until now when we last speak over the phone “when will you come back?”. It was the most painful moment of my life to saw my mother (Erika’s grandmother) lifeless in the coffin for the last time.

Now its happening again.

Yesterday I received a message from my elder brother in the Philippines that my father (Erika’s grandfather) were brought again to the hospital. I called my elder sister whom with my father and I tried to spoke with him but I got no response, this time he was unconscious unlike before he can talk to us even hes not feeling well.  Yesterday June 7, 2009 Sunday at noon he left us forever.

My father had suffered from a fourth stage prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with that desease to late to be cure, the doctor told us that he will not get well even he undergoes operation. We want him to have an operation but his heartbeat was too weak. He doesn’t know the truth that he will not get well. I always telling him you can still walk and ride your bicycle soon. I always telling him when we talk over the phone to get well soon and he always answer me “yes”.

Now I am on the saddest point of my life. Tomorrow we will going back to  the Philippines to  be with him for the last time and to say  “Papa, thank you for giving us our lives and taking care of us. Thank you for everything. Otsukaresama deshita. Oyasuminasai.”

Please  wake me up in this nightmare!

Erika putting stones inside her pool

Actually there is nothing extra ordinary, we bought a baby pool for my daughter in preparation for the coming summer and to be place in the yard. At present … daytime is  not  that hot but we tried to put air and water on it to see Erika’s reaction and as expected she was very delighted to see the penguins (drawing) inside the pool.

She was so happy looking for the pool full of stones.

She did not want to go with us anymore so

we give her a chance to play more with the water .

Another thing Erika enjoy is when we go shopping  she loves to ride on a cart like the one on picture below.  You can hear her voice laughing and sometimes she is making unusual sounds while moving the handle.

Meanwhile I think Erika learns to talk very fas. She talks not that perfect but you will easily understand what she wanted to tell.

Some words and thing she can say and do:

• na na pa for inai inai pa (Japanese peek a boo)
• mu for moon
• naa for nai or inai (means nothing)
• atta (she can say this word perfectly and knows when to use it which means she found something )
• apu for apple
• nennen means sleeping time
• she can points me her diaper while saying “u u” for poop but sometimes theres no poop inside it