i love you, you're welcome!

my parents, meann and nate finally arrived here last wednesday!! i can't even begin to tell you how happy i am that they're here. kahit na it's been barely three months since i last saw my mom, meann and nate excited pa din ako. lalo na my dad kasi over six months na kami hindi nagkikita. when they got here first thing i noticed was how big nate already is. when i left last february, hindi pa siya ganon kalaki and now, he's a big boy na! he's gotten taller and- just generally bigger than the last time i saw him. since he got here he's been really sweet to me. he always wants to do everything with me. pupunta na lang ako ng bathroom gusto pa sumama! i missed my brother!! and i'm gonna miss him even more when they leave on sunday! man, now i'm getting sad.

anyways, nate was very proud when he saw me and shared that he knew how to say "you're welcome" already. he proved it by saying it all night long. in fact, he kept on ending all his sentences with "you're welcome". let me give you an example of our conversations:

me: i love you, nathan!
nate: i love you, ate! you're welcome!

me: nate, later na yan. kain muna tayo.
nate: o sige. you're welcome.

me: eto na toy mo o.
nate: thank you. you're welcome.

lahat na lang may "you're welcome"! i don't know who thought him that but i think he did his job a little too well.

ang kulit ni nate! but i'm not complaining. i missed my little brother the whole time i've been back. before i went here, we were always together- doing errands, going to the bank, grocery-shopping, mall-hopping. we even looked for per-schools together. seriously, parang anak ko na siya. maybe that's why of all my siblings, pinaka-attached ako kay nate. i was really touched that he wanted to sleep beside me the whole time he was here on vacation. kahit na kulang na lang mahulog ako sa bed kasi hindi kami kasiya (if i bent my knees a little, my butt would be off the bed already) and my back hurt every time i woke up, it was great. sigh. i'm gonna miss him when he goes home. hopefully it doesn't take years before i see him again.