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Twinkle’s 4th Birthday Pineapple Party

June 5, 2019 / Filed Under: birthdays, family, Pangasinan, party, travels, Twinkle

Pineapple Party!!! Woohoo!!!

As promised, here’s Twinkle’s “advance” 4th Birthday Pineapple Party… Supposedly, this pineapple party was for her 3rd birthday but due to an unfortunate circumstances, it was postponed and re-scheduled this year so advance 4th birthday na lang. (If you can remember, Twinkle’s 2nd birthday was mermaid themed..)

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We celebrated it on our second day at Sundowners Vacation Villas… of course, we were prepared and had everything pineapple. We even wore pineapple printed dresses and tops!

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Twinkle’s cake was just a cupcake.. we were reserving her big cake for later.

Sis, even prepared her tropical photo booth props…

Pineapple Party Food

Here are our party food … also our brunch for the day….

Pineapple Fried Rice (recipe here)

Spicy Soy Pineapple Glazed Wings (recipe here)

Hawaiian Barbecue Meatballs (recipe here)

Pineapple Ferrero, Mochi, and cupcakes

Sodas on mini Pineapple floaters, pineapple fruit cups, and cheese popcorn for snacking while swimming…

Pineapple Juice on pineapple cups and sausage bites on stick

The lootbags are even pineapple! (Akala mo naman may kids.. LOL!)

Swimming Time

This is why we chose a villa with our own mini-plunge pool. So we can celebrate our mini-pool party without going out…

Of course, Twinkle’s swimsuits and floaters are also pineapple…

LEFT: My IL’s: Papa Sony and Mama Lucy | RIGHT: Chellie and Ykaie

Twinkle's 4th Birthday Pineapple Party — Ykaie, Shy, and Chellie

And here we are … (Hala si Twinkle, ayaw mag-smile..)

Advance Happy Birthday Twinkle!

Check out our super crazy video too!

Save 2 Diapers Per Day with #LessPalitMoreSulit Pampers!

February 20, 2019 / Filed Under: Baby Products, Mommy Moments, mommy thoughts, parenting, Twinkle

Twinkle is one super active and super kulit kid!

She loves playing and running around. She plays with her doll house, she jumps around the living room from sofa to sofa imagining the floor as lava (she learned this from ate Ykaie). Nagbubukas na ng fridge to look for her favorite yogurt drinks, chocolates, or ice drops. And I think she runs for the sake of running. She still drinks milk from the bottle but she also eats lots of cookies, “pagetti” and fried chicken. Oh, and she calls me “mommy, mommy, mooooommmy” 4,678,897 a day.

Because I work at home, I get to to be her playmate 24/7 and when I’m with Twinkle, I don’t worry about anything — especially not about her diapers.

I used to think pare-pareho lang lahat ng diapers. So I used to buy the cheapest brand I could find but now I know better! Hindi laging sulit ang mura. I now believe it’s much sulit to buy better quality diapers. We use Pampers! Pampers is less lawlaw because it absorbs weewee from front to back and because of that there’s less palit of diapers. Syempre dahil less palit more savings!

Pampers “Less Palit More Sulit” Challenge

To find out if it’s really true, I did the “Less Palit More Sulit Challenge” from Pampers. Sa Day 1, we used only ordinary diapers and on Day 2, Pampers.

Tapos, bibilangin natin kung ilang diapers ang nagagamit per day, at kung makakasulit ka ba talaga dahil sa less lawlaw na Pampers…

After Day 1, we were able to use 6 diapers. We changed diapers as soon as the diaper gets lawlaw. Alam nyo naman na hindi comfortable ang diaper kapag lawlaw na. Twinkle finds it uncomfortable to walk or play. Minsan nga she thinks she has poop because it’s lawlaw and wet and she tells me. I tell her wala naman.

On Day 2, we were able to use 4 Pampers.. because it’s less lawlaw and it’s drier, there’s less palit of diapers. That means we saved 2 diapers! Think of how much you can save in a year if you’re able to save 2 diapers per day. Ang laking tipid no?

But what I love about it is that Twinkle can move, play, and run hangga’t gusto nya because she’s at her most comfortable. Hindi kasi lawlaw and diaper nya. Kids learn as they play and I love na walang sagabal sa learning at development nya.

Mommies, do the Pampers “Less Palit, More Sulit” Challenge! To see is to believe, right?

And shop for Pampers in Waltermart!

For every purchase of Pampers, worth PHP500 in Waltermart, customer will get one raffle ticket. 15 winners will get 1 year supply of Pampers and 30 winners will get a Jollibee Kid’s Party Package. Period is Feb 1 to Feb 28.

Twinkle’s Schooling Update (and OOTDs)

January 28, 2019 / Filed Under: school, Twinkle

You might be wondering how Twinkle’s schooling is doing. Well, let me share with you an update, pati na rin ng OOTDs (courtesy of nanay Pinky, of course).

Well, It’s been, what, five months now since Twinkle started school last September. Let me share with you how it’s been. September was such a great month for Twinkle because she loved going to school. She loves learning new things and she loves playing with her classmates. She would be proud whenever she comes home with a star on her hand.

Come October, she started having separation anxiety. Whenever she knows it’s school time she would ask “Mommy, Angel Beats??” and when I reply with a yes. She’d start crying and refuse to take a bath. She would also start tantrums and tell us that she doesn’t want to go to school. Going to school became a constant battle for us. With a little coaxing here and there, sometimes she’d be eager to go but most of the time there are lots of crying.

We know it’s just separation anxiety because once, she gets there and she gets to play with her classmates, she would stop crying.

After the school Halloween Party, the school started renovations for the sem break. We figured it was a good time to let Twinkle rest and make her forget her sepanx in going to school. Since Angel Beats’ system is very lenient that classes are enrolled on a monthly basis, we decided not to enroll her for November and December. December being a very busy month for us because peanutbutter♥‘s sister and her family goes home for a vacay and we have vacation and lakwatsa here and there.

One of her sepanx day – she doesn’t want to go to school

So January for Twinkle is a fresh start. She still has memories of her sepanx days last year but she’s a bit more mature now. What I do is I talk to her and tell her that I’ll just be outside waiting for her and I’ll be there when she comes out later. I also tell her to show me her stars after school. I think that kinds of reassure her that I’m not leaving her at school. Now, she really goes to school happy.

Her new schedule is M-W-F but she’s still under Teacher Jove. What’s in the photo above are some of the activities they did since school started last January 7, 2019. We are having a great start of the year so far.

How’s your January doing, mommies?