Bayanihan

Last month, our neighbor who helped us in putting up our fence hurt his back.  My husband offered to help him in painting his house free of charge. These photos were taken on the day of my husband and I's wedding anniversary hehehe.  We all came there and helped hubby a little bit.  The kids and I love painting so we had fun.

That's our neighbor, they love kids and EJ and Rylie are their new  eye candies.

EJ tried to  climbed up the ladder to help daddy.

Here's my darling princess diligently working.

After  some painting job, of course it's time to play hehehe.

We were playing peekabo.

I never want to miss their smiles so click click click!

Rylie took shots of me too.

This kind of activity is called Bayanihan in the Philippines.

According to Wikepedia ..

Bayanihan is taken from the root word bayani meaning "hero". Thus, bayanihan means being a hero to one another. As in the classic tradition of carrying a house, each man carries a portion of the weight of the house and in effect, becomes a hero for all the others because he lightens the load for the others. Each man thus becomes a Hero to everyone as all the others become a Hero to him..

The origin of the term bayanihan can be traced from a common tradition in Philippine towns where community members volunteer to help a family move to a new place. The process involves literally carrying the house to its new location. This is done by putting bamboo poles forming a strong frame to lift the stilts from the ground and carrying the whole house with the men positioned at the ends of each pole. A mural by Filipino National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco illustrates the process. The tradition also features a small fiesta hosted by the family to express gratitude to the volunteers.

Painting the Fence.. a family thing.

I was touched when our lady neighbor told me that it's so precious and cute that we let the kids paint with us. She said "Painting, as a family thing is so cute and precious." As much as possible, we let the kids participate to whatever we do so that a family value of togetherness and bonding would instill in their young hearts and mind.

But anyhow, this is the second to the last part episodes of our fence project. I was wearing that hat because it was getting hot outside but my son wanted it so I gave it to him. We kept teasing him about it lol.

Do you see Champ's nose? He wanted to help us too.

That's the solid stain we used for the outside part. It looks like a paint but it's not, it's a stain.

Here's the paint team. I love our children's enthusiasm in helping us for everything that we do. Although it makes the job longer but its fun having them as our helper.

It was hot that day so we brought some bottled water outside. Our young man has to have a drink every so often.

All of us has each a hat but EJ did not want to wear his. He is wearing his Dad's hat now lol.
So guys, if you have some painting job, you may hire us hahaha.

"It's a family thing".

EJ can work hard as long as he can have some cookies during break time lol.

so after the painting job was done, we gave the kids some treats for their hard work. A milkshake and a happy meal from Donald (that's how EJ call Mcdo lol).

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