Parenting in Tagaytay

Trey Novales. Miguel Pareja. What do they have in common? They are my “inaanaks” with my best friends, Bob and Monch Novales and Cesar and Marivic Pareja. And last weekend, Chief and I had witnessed and experienced how our good friends have raised their kids as we shared a weekend at Crosswinds Tagaytay. This photo above was taken by Trey. And below, he also took a picture of his mom and dad.




Photo shows Rad and Trey and their PSP. Photo was taken by Iya Pareja. Trey took fancy with my Canon “Rebel” DSLR and snapped more pictures than I actually did. Maybe, around 100 pictures. At least, I didn’t have to worry about the cost of a roll of film. I told Trey that his dad used to be a photo hobbyist himself, back in UST and the boy seemed to have picked up the hobby.



Photo taken by Trey from the second floor attic of the vacation house of Bob's brother at Crosswinds, Tagaytay.

Monch always cautioned Trey while he was holding the camera, fearing that the boy might drop or damage the camera. I didn’t worry a bit and was more glad to see Trey taking an interest in photography. I gave him so tips and directions in taking landscape pictures while Matess shared some minutes on close-up photography.

Miguel was off to Boracay for his own holiday vacation, so it was only Iya who shared the weekend of Red Dog. We were teasing Cesar as he couldn’t say the “magic words” to Miguel as he was boarding his flight to Boracay. But we were sure that Cesar shows and expresses his love in more ways and words! Photo of Cesar and Marivic Pareja with their daughter Iya taken by Trey Novales just a few minutes before we were all scheduled to go back to Manila. We decided to leave mid-afternoon as we were anticipating many other urbanites returning from a long weekend.

For Chief and myself, this weekend in Tagaytay was another eye-opener as we continue to dream about being parents one day. If CG was alive today, CG would surely have added extra smiles for this weekend!