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A blog for my son

January 14, 2010 Write a Comment Fatherhood, Promote

I started a new public blog to record the growth of my son, Bjorn Carlos. Point your browser to bjorncarlos.blogspot.com. Excited to fill its pages with photos, videos and everything that I and my wife could come up with in celebrating the life with our first born.

If you are as excited as we are then become a follower of the blog through Google Friend Connect that’s on the sidebar of the blog.

Bjorn Carlos in photos #1

December 25, 2009 8 comments Fatherhood, Photography

Here’s the batch that I took while my son, Bjorn Carlos Cabuhay-Dael, was still in Silliman University Medical Center’s nursery.

It’s true that words are short in explaining the level of happiness when I first saw my son.

Welcome to the world, Bjorn Carlos!

December 24, 2009 Write a Comment Fatherhood

I received the best Christmas gift two days earlier.

A son.

Thanks to my wife’s enduring the challenges of childbirth without me on her side. I was a minute short upon arrival as she’s already moved to the delivery room – and having a friend inside did not even hinted a chance of getting in – so I have to wait. I’m waiting with my two aunts and mother-in-law. I don’t know if it was instinct or a powerful invisible language between a father and a son told me to walk over to the nursery to see my son being transported from the delivery to the nursery room. The feeling was nothing that I could ever explain before it happened. It is happiness at its best!

I was given full authority by my wife for the name and I loved her more for that!

The name is Bjorn Carlos. Bjorn has been the name that I wanted to be my own. It stands for bear. A strong and lovable symbol. Carlos is a tribute to my grandfather.

Welcome to the world, Bjorn Carlos!

Fatherhood: Visual art for baby

December 8, 2009 4 comments Fatherhood

Here’s me holding another paintbrush after eight years or more. The last piece I made was a watercolor art of Santa Claus on a bond paper that many years ago, and that cheap, but it was done on pure passion of creating something beautiful and giving. I did offer help for my then girlfriend, now wife, when she tried on a scenery piece that if I’m right was a mix of watercolor and color pastel sometime three years ago but that wasn’t mine entirely so let’s agree on counting that off.

This one I’m doing it with much consciousness of introducing my son, as early as now(8-month old in her mama’s nurturing womb), in appreciating the wonders of colors and emotions. The gallery below shows the order of how I created the character in our room. How it evolved. Notice how the knife on his gizmo belt evolved into something sweet.