“Mommy, deyti!!”

Tifa’s starting to talk well now. The word “deyti” is one out of the many words that she’s using. In her own vocabulary words that only she can understand. And deyti means dirty.

She doesn’t want to see dirty things. Say for example, whenever someone’s calling her to come over and hug her she’s making sure first that the hands of those people are clean. And if she saw that your hands aren’t clean, you will hear her say “eeewww!” My father can attest to that. Even if she’s eating something and as soon as she found out that her face or her hands are dirty, she will immediately stop eating and will call you to clean her face or hands. Worst is, she will try to tell you that she’ll take a bath even if she already did.

Here’s a video after she found out that the chocolate chip that she has been eating messed her hands.

I hope when she gets older she would change her being “maselan”.

Usog

Tifa’s not feeling well for the past few days, but I’m just wondering why her temperature usually goes up at night. But she doesn’t seem like she got a fever, she would always play like she’s really well. And she’s waking up at 3am to play with the curtain. Strange, isn’t? Not the usual thing that she do.

Then I decided to take her to the doctor the following day, but my mother told me to bring her first to “albularyo”. Maybe she have this “usog/bati”, I don’t know how to explain this in English. There’s nothing wrong in believing with the albularyo sometimes, so I surrender to my mother’s suggestion.

Then I brought Tifa in an albularyo, Mang Agring. According to him Tifa really have this “usog” by a woman. He put a white paper on Tifa’s forehead, and gave me another paper and told me to burn it and put a little ash on Tifa’s forehead. When we got home, I did what Mang Agring’s instruction. I hope this one will work.