Moms gathering with Nancy Barnes

We organized a mother's gathering with Mrs. Nancy Barnes on baby massage last week, here's a photo of the group with the newest babies in town.
















(from L-R: Barbara & baby Ethan, Liudmila with Ilya & baby Alexei, Theresa & baby Delcran, Nancy, Menchie, Melissa & baby Nevyn)

Happy Birthday Lola Ping!

Today is my Lola Ping's 69th birthday...Happy Birthday Lola Ping! We were able to talk and greet her today for this special day, I even sung "happy birthday to you" and said "I love you" to my dear Lola (lola means grandmother in Tagalog). Here are two photos of her younger days and a picture with my mommy taken six years ago...

beautiful shot at a friend's wedding in the Philippines

taken at the International Baha'i Convention in 1983 in Haifa, Israel where Lola Ping was one of the delegates. She was wearing a traditional Filipino dress/costume.

Lola Ping with my mommy and Lolo Max taken in Cebu, one of the islands in the Philippines (my daddy took this photo, two months before he married mommy in Haifa)

Visiting Emily

My mommy & I visited my friend Emily, her baby sister Kayley & their mom auntie Carmel recently. I am trying to spend more time with her these days as she & her family are moving to Holland soon. Yep this means she will learn Dutch & the next time we see each other we will probably be speaking in Dutch and/or...Hebrew. I love playing her bags she has variety of them. We watched a short Cinderella & Arielle movie as well. At the end we did some paintings together...It was really fun playing with her.

EM's latest photos...

dressing up as a little mommy

eating her first lolly pop

what a cute little helper

mama...brushing my teeth is easy

singing & playing guitar

play dough is fun!

Bubble bath

Our little girl loves bath and likes a lot of bubbles in the water. Here you can see how she enjoys herself at bath time.

Dutch visitors

We invited some Dutch friends at our place last night who are visiting Haifa, the Kouchekzadehs (Monib, his parents and grandmother) and the Lie-Tahzib family (San, Bahia, Nadia & Amy). We had dinner together and we got to know a bit more about these two families.

Welcome Baby Nayriz Keanan!

Here are few photos of the newest member in the Balundo family, baby boy Nayriz Keanan!

one week old


with open big eyes


baby Nayriz has a lot of hair like Ate Enna-Marie when she was a baby