Allen's First Costume Parade in DLSZ

Allen went on his first costume parade at DLSZ today.

Shades of Kapatiran...

The pupils paraded around school in storybook character costumes. They were supposed to avoid buying costumes, and were even encouraged to make their costumes from recycled stuff. We got his costume from a box of hand-me-downs from his Canadian cousins. It was a Peter Pan costume that we thought of passing off as Robin Hood, were it not for the zigzag-cut hem of the tunic (and our inability to buy a bow and arrow set). We really thought he had a unique costume. As it turned out, lots of other parents thought so too. Oh, and there were a lot of Transformers and superheroes (storybook characters?). As expected, most of the girls came as princesses.

According to Allen, he enjoyed his day -- especially when dismissal time came.

During our recent office outing, one of my single teammates asked if we worried that marriage would decrease the passion and bring boredom and monotony to the relationship.

I answered that it didn't, for us. It merely changed the pace -- instead of rushing to maximize every minute spent, we could now enjoy quiet moments just doing nothing, holding hands, looking at each other (then bursting out laughing for no reason).

When I mentioned that conversation to Amity her immediate response was, "how can it ever get boring with children?" For all my rhetoric, she is again able to get to the point. She's right. Our kids make every day so much richer, and bring unexpected opportunities for us to discover new things about each other as persons, partners and parents. And then there's the experience of discovering the world all over again through my sons' eyes. Yup, how can it ever get boring?