Kids' Style #5 - Happy Birthday Andrea

I want to greet a sweet little girl in Alabama who celebrated her 4th birthday today.

Happy Birthday Andrea Lorene Post.

Do you know that all these lovely clothing that my sweet Justine wearing in this photos were hand-me-downs from Andrea? Well, my lil Kikay looks good on it and thankful for sharing these coat and clothing to us.

We were on our way to Giant Eagle when an old lady said that she liked Justine's pink coat. The pink color that is so vibrant and she haven't find one for her grand daughter. This is another hand-me-down from Andrea. Feel free to click the link to visit Andrea's blog.

Kids' Style #5 - Happy Birthday Andrea

Baby Mommy

I compared the result of Sony digicam and my new toy the Nikon D3100 DSLR camera and obviously the latter have amazing result. My sweetie pie's picture came out really nice. You can still see all the dirt and mess that sticks to her dress.


Anyway, she is the youngest mommy of today generation hehe. She love playing stuff animals and babies but she doesn't like dolls. I was changing her diaper when she said, "baby poop". So I pretended and said the baby needs new diaper too and here it is. Her baby with pick diaper.

She was watching TV with her baby when I uttered the word nap. So she thought baby needs a nap so off to the room to put the baby to nap.

She then put blanket to cover the baby and left the room saying, "na nyt baby". How sweet this baby mommy.

Baby Mommy

Kids In Doodles #8 - Fave Snacks

Dum-dum pop is one of their favorite snacks/candy to munch on. They don't lick the pop but they chew it. I have to hide it so they won't keep asking for it and everyday they can finish 5-to 10 pop . We always have a stock of lollipop that we give to them when we travel and reward as well. One day we went to Target, and Jake a saw a stick pop. They couldn't bite on it because it was too hard. It was that kind of pop that made this girl's mouth blue.

Pringles is one of my favorite chips to snack on. But look how she possessively hold the pringles. As soon as she spotted me with this pringles in my hand she took it and did not bother to give it back to me.

My vampire boy. He is into fruits lately and one afternoon I fell asleep in the couch and forgot that i have a buckaroo who is a spider man and knows how to open the fridge. I woke up and saw Jake eating half of the water melon in the floor. He was like vampire eating this big piece of red watermelon. He also love peach. He climbed up into our kitchen counter and grabbed this not ripe peach.

Kids In Doodles #8 - Fave Snacks

She Did It In the Potty

I said to myself before that as soon as we move in to our new house, i'm gonna start potty train these two monkeys. So, last week, i asked Justine if she wants to sit on the potty and she said yes so I let her sat on the potty.
After few minutes she said she pooped. I was deligheted that she did it with out forcing her. She just spent 15 minutes sitting on top of the toilet bowl and poof!!! There's the poop. The next day I let both of them sit on the top of the potty whether they want to poop or not. Jake sat for a while and got off the potty, while upstairs was the little girl sitting on top of the toilet bowl and she did it again. I was pleased with what she did, it's amazing.

I did it again the next day but to my dismay they both did not go. As soon as I put the pull ups in they went Doo-doo. I was disappointed. Now I'm still working on it and it's very tiring. Jake doesn't want to go in the potty, he pretends to sit for a few minutes and get off as soon as I turn my back. Justine also have been doing the same, getting off the potty as soon as i turn my back away from the bathroom. I have to watch them, and the problem is if I'm around they never do it. The buckaroo haven't done it yet to this toilet and I don't know when he is going to be ready.


I wonder when this potty train will leave the station! choo choo chugga chugga

She Did It In the Potty

Kids In Doodles#2: Talent and Antics

It's KID time. Thanks to the host Smart Boys for creating this baby/kids oriented meme.

Obviously, my Lil Miss Spider here have more talent and antics than Mr.Michelangelo wannabe hehe. She has big brother to look up to and copy all his talent and antics. Miss spider is not scared to climb on anything. She is dangerous LOL, where as the buckaroo was more careful when it comes to climbing. He is not scared of heights but he just doesn't want to try on things that he thinks he can't do it.

However, Jake likes to draw. He was the one who draw some of the faces in this white board. I draw the big one and he thought Thomas would be a good looking little tank engine if it has a beard ha ha. I took a bunch of his drawing in the camera that I accidentally deleted.


My doodle entry of my Kiddos. Join us!

Kids In Doodles#2: Talent and Antics

Find the Real and Fake Baby

Can you spot the real and fake baby in the picture?

Let's have a closer look, can you point the real baby now?

Zooooooommm Innnn. Can you see her now?

All these stuff animals are named "Baby" by Justine. She calls every stuffy Baby, on TV, store and every where. Lately, she called Baby dog or puppy dog to the stuff dog. She love dog, in fact crazy with dog that even if the dog is a 15 steps away from her, she would chase it and attempt to pet the dog. My MIL's neighbor has a huge dog. Jake was scared to pet the dog but Justine without hesitation she pet the dog. She was not even scared that the god was bigger than her.

Anyway, these are some of her stuff animals. Sometimes, she would go to Jake's room and grabbed all Jake's stuff animal which mostly the cause of their fight. When Jake saw that Justine has his doggie, he would grabbed it off her hand and of course the little Miss ended up crying.

That Blue dog in there was Jake's doggie that the lil Miss took from his room.

Find the Real and Fake Baby

Pay Back Time and Get Even

This past days, i have seen Justine fighting back against Jake terrorism hehehe. This afternoon, Jake threw this train track on Justine for fun and it hit on kikay's head. She cried because it hurt her. But instead of crying out loud, she got up and picked this thing up and hit Jake on the head in purpose. The lil guy cried because it was hard when the kikay hit that thing on his head. His reaction was, "Justine why did you do that?" holding his head. The kikay just grin. Then Jake said, " You kiss my boo-boo" hehehe. This is what i call getting even and it's pay back time Mister!


I just want to spread this word to every body especially to all the mommies out there. In honor of Skin Cancer Awareness Month, Avvo is donating $5 to the Melanoma Research Foundation for every doctor review posted in May. This is part of the program supported by Avvo that is running in May to raise money for cancer research. Take a moment to review your doctor and, in every review you made a $5 will be donated Melanoma Research Foundation.

To review your doctor on Avvo, simply visit: http://www.avvo.com/support/skincancer and look up your doctor's name.

Pay Back Time and Get Even

Blocks, Tracks and Choo-choo

Before Jake took interest with Thomas and Friends, he was into the blocks. Dada and him constructed the blocks and his favorite character was always Robot. This was their latest creation.

Then, it was December when he spotted a DVD of mixed cartoons shows which includes Barney, Thomas and Friends and more. I pulled the box of tracks and Thomas little engine out and he took interest on it right away because he saw it on TV.

Tracks #1

This was his first tracks that he and his Dada did.

Here he is, making his own choo choo train using boxes and his creativity.

Blocks, Tracks and Choo-choo

Play like there's no tomorrow

The daredevil is always on the go. She went straight to the slides as soon as we got to the playground yesterday. The buckaroo was acting shy at first because of the crowd, He was not used on seeing too many kids that day. But the kikay just never care. There she is sliding like a pro.

She was sliding the small slides until she got tired of it. So, she look around the playground and saw the rope ladder. She already tried this one before and i think she finds this one challenging. So she started climbing up. I took a quick snap of my camera because this daredevil doesn't care how dangerous the ladder with no one holding her.
The Joe came and kind of assist her but she was the one did all the climbing. Jake is scared to try this one but she doesn't.

Now that she was on top, she sat right away down the slides and weeeeee, then went back to the ladder.

Jake wanted to try so Joe had to hold Jake up but the girl can't wait for her turn and she started climbing up. So, Joe lifted Jake down to the ground because he was scared and he went the other way to get up there.

So, the girl was already up there and just sliding down with big giggles.

She kept doing it again and again like there is no tomorrow until one girl took over the ladder and she was lost. She saw the smaller ladder but it was not as challenging as this big one. I offered her juice instead and take some break hehe.
She dares danger and doesn't care. Lots of mom in the playground asked us how old she is and amazed of her. She just turned 20 months old last week and she acts like two years old.

Play like there's no tomorrow

Warning: Poop Overload

I spent most of my time this last couple of weeks potty training Jake. I even skipped the weekly caravan meme so I can closely watch him and bring him upstairs to the bathroom to potty. I had to take him upstairs every two hours hoping to get lucky. I know he is ready but he just don't know yet how to potty. There were days that i yelled at him for pooping in his diaper and not telling me. I totally forgot that my son is still 35 month and will be 3 years next month. Potty training needs a lot of patience.

So, first couple of days he only peed in the potty which is very good to me. I was happy with it. At least he peed and that would be a good start. I still bring him every two hours so he knows how to poop. I can't leave the lamb chop downstairs which means i also have to take the lab chop with us in the bathroom. I already had candies and stickers ready, and also pen, books and other stuff he needed to tinker while sitting in the potty. The lamb chop on the other hand likes going potty with him because she gets to eat candy. She won't stop until you give her candy. In fact she even peed in the potty while eating the candy. Good job sweety.

It was Wednesday of last week when Jake pooped in the potty for the first time. call it cheating but he really did poop in the potty. WI saw him trying to poop when were having lunch, so i hurriedly carried him upstairs and left him sitting in the potty. And he did it! He called me after he pooped. I had to run back downstairs because Justine was there. I gave him his favorite stickers Woody and asked him to flush the toilet to say good bye to the poopy. He was happy doing it.

The next day, he did not say anything but he came closer to me and had this look that he was about to go. Again I carried him upstairs and letting him sit in the potty by himself. I came downstairs and went back in front of the computer. Jake yelled that he was done. He said bye bye to his poop again.

I really thought we're getting there because it looks like we are half way getting over the potty thing. Came Friday and I totally forgot to take him upstairs every two hours. He pooped in his diaper. Since Joe is off on weekend which i usually get up late as well i missed putting Jake on the potty. Now this week i have to start all over again.

Warning: Poop Overload

Busy Boxes for Toddlers

Toddlers love boxes, especially boxes with things inside them. These boxes are fondly called "busy boxes" and are usually a medium size box with a lid, like a child's shoe box or even a plastic container with a snug fitting lid. The idea behind a busy box is to keep toddlers entertained while Mom or Dad is busy doing something else.

Busy boxes are meant to be explored by the child. Fill the box with a different activity each time to keep things fresh and interesting. Some great choices for busy box activities are:

Large beads on a string (large enough so they're not a choking hazard)
Crayons and paper
Stickers and toilet paper tubes for decorating
Age appropriate puzzles
Building blocks
Short pieces of textured ribbon

The key to a successful busy box encounter is to have a specific place for busy box play. For some this might be a blanket spread in a corner of the room, and then the child can play on the blanket with the box. For others it might be some time in the playpen with the activity, or even at a chair at the kitchen table.

Keep busy box time short. Some toddlers have a longer attention span than others, but anything in excess of 30 minutes is likely to end in boredom and frustration. Keep an eye on the time with your michele watch and then move the child on to another activity before they become restless.


Encourage the child to pick which box they want to have and encourage them to only have one box at a time per session so that they do not constantly want a different box.

Busy box time can be fun and exciting for toddlers, and it allows Mom or Dad to get some work done without being pulled on by bored children.

Busy Boxes for Toddlers

Potty Training #2 - 8/27

I was so determined to potty train Jake since he showed interest already in sitting on the potty. So, yesterday we spent most of our time going back and forth to the bathroom. I let him sit in the potty for half and hour hoping he will poop. But to no avail he wasn't pooping at all as he control himself not to poop. He didn't poop the whole day yesterday even if i let him sit in the potty for four times. This morning I take him right away to the bathroom as I know he would poop because he didn't poop yesterday. He sat in the potty for another 30 minutes until he got tired and asked for diaper. I wasn't succeeded again with my potty training mission hehehehe. It disappoints me because after lunch today I forgot to take him to the bathroom and he pooped in his diaper. He told me after he already did it. Oh boy! why is it so hard to potty train a toddler. I will still try my hardest to keep him in schedule and learn the proper way.

Potty Training #2 - 8/27

Potty Training #1 8/26

I decided to force the buckaroo to sit in a potty after that incident when he pooped in the bathtub while taking a bath. He doesn't like sitting in a small potty but I got him sit in a toilet bowl last night. I held him for like half an hour because he said he wants to go potty. That half hour he was playing around until he got tired and asked me to come down. First potty training not successful but at least he sit on the potty.

Potty Training #1 8/26

No More Thumbsucking

One study of thumb-sucking suggests that as many as 94 percent of infants drop the habit by their first birthday.

Before my little lamb chop turned 1 year old i noticed that she seldom put her thumb in her mouth. The statement stated above is indeed true to Justine's case. She's not thumbsucking now not even a single chance. I guess she out grown that habit already. However, she is been busy walking around. She actually learn how to walk when she was 11 month old but prefers to crawl than walking. But now, you can't stop her anymore as she wants to walk around and run. So, Bye bye thumbsucking, hello walking and running.

She is no longer my adoring infant and ready to enter a whole new phase in which she gains some independence. Jake and Justine will always be my adoring baby even if they reach 18 years old hehe.

Updates from Babycenter for Your 12-month-old: Week 2, if happen you have a baby that age.
If your child gets upset when you leave her now, she's right on schedule. Twelve to 18 months is prime time for separation anxiety — a psychological term that means your toddler can't bear to be without you. The best way to handle painful farewells is to keep them short and sweet: Say goodbye with a quick kiss and head out the door. Your toddler's tears will subside soon after you're out of sight. It's hard not to feel guilty, but in the long run you'll help your child become more independent.

No More Thumbsucking

No Nap!

This video was taken the first day of the week when Joe went back to school after a week of break early week of this Month. That was the third day Jake been sleeping in a bed. We moved him to a bed before his birthday because he hate his crib already. Anyway, that first day (Monday) this two little rugrats woke me up so early like 6:00 AM. Jake got up first and went to our room and started messing up with Justine. No matter how sleepy I was i had to get up. So, when we were downstairs I tried to put Justine back to sleep in her swing. And look what this mischievous girl did.

The little guy was watching his fave cartoon while the little girl having fun swinging like a pro. She can't crawl yet when I took this video. Soon, this girl would probably yell No Nap! when she learn to speak.

No Nap!