Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

The Summer Ride

Once in our trip in San Juan, La Union, I saw a few locals riding an ATV in the sand. I am guessing it’s the best best atv in the area, it looks new too! Now, that makes me wish, I have one or we can rent one to complete our beach adventure.

All-terrain vehicle (ATV for short) is also known as quad bike. Usually this kind of vehicle is single seater but atv side by side are designed to hold not just the rider but one passenger as well. As the name says it, this vehicle is made to handle any kind of terrain which other vehicles cannot. I am not sure if it is legal to drive an ATV on the road but I have seen a hisun atv here in our subdivision. Maybe on national road, it is not permitted, more on super highways.

I maybe generalizing, but I would like to call ATV as the summer ride. We know how summers are; swimming, outing, trekking and almost any adventure one can imagine. And with the ATV being able to navigate in almost any kind of terrain, this is your perfect ride. Use it in the beach, on dirt roads or even when visiting towns (just make sure that it is legal).

Here in the country, ATV rentals are popular near beach resorts. In Boracay, if you want to trek Mt Luho, you will need an ATV. ATV rentals in Boracay ranges from 300 PhP and up. In La Union, ATV rentals is 350 and up and depends on the number of kilometers you will use it. In Tagaytay, ATV rentals is at 400 for 30 minutes and 700 for an hour.

If you are thinking of buying an ATV, the prices goes from 400K and up. And yes, like any vehicle, you need a driver’s license to drive one.

Party With The Photo Booth

We love having small parties, specially when the whole gang is here. The whole gang, meaning, me and my sisters and their kids. And this summer, we are looking forward to more swimming parties here in my house.

Four kids in the house and we have at least 4 parties every year. You can say I am already an expert in party planning, but no, most of our parties are small parties, few guests, a nice cake and lots of games and loot bags. I can tell you so much about planning for a small party, like where to buy your prizes for the games (and what games to play) or how to make DIY bags for your goodies. I can do small parties even when I am asleep (LOL). The thing is, I have never tried planning for a big party, maybe once, when the princess turned one year old. Having 50+ guests, that’s the biggest party I organized.

I always dream of organizing a really big party, like an event or a big celebration. I love organizing and I love stressing myself. Maybe when the kids are bigger, I’ll make that dream of mine come true.

What I have noticed in most big parties I have attended is the presence of photo booth. Like when I attended a friend’s wedding, guests were greeted by photo booth for weddings. It’s a nice souvenir for guests, right? And a very nice way to share your happiness with your guests. If you are in Dallas and looking for photo booth rental dallas, you might want to check out www.thephotobank.com. For sure, they can cater to all your photo booth needs.

our photo booth picture from F&M wedding

The presence of photo booth adds up to the fun of every event or occasion. There are photo booths that comes with props like big wigs, clown wigs, any hat you can imagine, big sunglasses and any funky props you can imagine. Photo booth brings out the child in every guests.

Teaching Kids To Write Using Dotted (and lined ) Font

And the little boy will be in pre school this coming school year… he knows how to count from 1-100 (which he learned in a day! the math genes baby, his genes! haha) he knows some of the alphabet.. but he doesn’t know how to read and write yet.. and he’ll be in prep (kinder 2) in June. Teaching him is easy but i’s the preparing the lesson plan that’s taking most of my time.

So we’re taking it letter by letter, incorporating phonics and writing on it. We’re starting with letters L, T, I and V. Yes, not from A, B, C.. why? well, I learned from my first born’s tutor that it is better to teach it from letters that have straight lines, starting from the easiest which is letter L. Phonics are included as pictures/ images starting with each letters are introduced. Looking for images we can use was time consuming. You see, I can’t just use any images/ pictures that starts with the letter we are working.. it has to be phonics friendly.. like we can’t use ice cream for letter I.. since we are introducing the short i sound at first, it can be confusing seeing an ice cream that starts with a long i sound. Same goes with most of the letters, like A for Apple..the ending sound will confuse the kid.. so as much as possible, I only images/pictures that have a standard (or normal) starting, ending and middle sound. More on how to teach your kids to read when Chico starts reading.

Here’s a sample of our work sheet:

Disclaimer: Images used in the worksheets are not mine.

The dotted and lined fonts, which is the highlight of this post is from Kimberly Geswein. You can download the font HERE.

The KG Primary Dots comes in 3:

This is a very helpful font in teaching your kids how to write. It is dotted and lined, just how I want it to be. Before I discovered this font, I was using a paper pad image then writing a letter on it using GIMP.. and it was time consuming! Thank goodness there’s Google and thank goodness there’s Kimberly (which I would like to call the Goddess of Fonts). I hope in time she would develop a dotted font for cursive hand writing.

Upon discovering KG’s works, I found out that she is also the artist behind some of my favorite fonts.. Love yah like a sister and a lot more.. You can find her works on her website and you can even download all her fonts from hthe site. And you can see a few of her works on her FB page.