Mama craved for seafood. LittleMan V asked for noodles and LittleMiss C wants tsooop (soup).
LittleMan V: “Mama please put jelly seaweed in my soup”
LittleMiss: “Mama. Tsoooop. hahahaha”
We all got what we asked for.
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Boodle Fight at Blackbeard’s Seafood Island Grill
Few days before we left for Davao, Mama treated us to a boodle fight style of dining at Blackbeards Seafood Island located at Abreeza Mall.
Boodle Fight is a military style of eating where long tables are prepared and food are on top of the banana leaves. Viands and rice ready to eat using your bare hands, jugs of water are prepared on the side to wash hands before the “eating combat”. With the signal to start the boodle fight, everyone aims for his/her position. – Urban Dictionary
Toddler Activity: Painting
Toddler Painting with LittleMiss Chloe
We made use of expired food coloring and empty Quail egg container.
Linking post to Magic Moments.
Happy 77th Araw ng Davao
Family back home are enjoying a feast of seafood and Durian to celebrate Araw ng Davao.
Sweet stinky Durian, how I miss you!
HK Trip: Avenue of the Stars
Avenue of the stars, our last stop for our 1st day.
I didn’t particularly enjoy that night since it was raining, crowded street, and hungry grumpy babies with us. I took a deep breathe, paused for a while and started appreciating the beautiful Victoria Harbour.
V didn’t understand the hullabaloo in taking photos with the street stars but he obliged as per our request.
V with Tita Ninang Crist.
We didn’t appreciate the light because it was raining. If we get the chance to go back, I would rather visit the place before sunset.
Shakshouka – Baker & Spice
We found ourselves enjoying the view of Burj Khalifa early Saturday morning after hearing mass, while waiting for Baker & Spice to serve breakfast at 8 am.
Kids amused themselves by taking photos, going up and down the stairs and waving to Dubai fountain cleaner.
I’ll have Shakshouka please as soon as the waiter handed us the menu, he cheerful replied “which one, madam?” I look down on the menu,  I indeed had 3 choices on how I want my shakshouka – red, green and matbukha.
I ordered Capuccino and the boys shared a cup of thick Mexican Hot Chocolate – the best hot chocolate we’ve had here in Dubai.
Shakshouka Matbukha – 4 eggs poached on a homemade tomato and red peppers sauce with garlic, chili and olive oil.
Four sunshiny egg goodness served with freshly baked farmhouse bread = a good morning indeed!
We all enjoyed every bit of sauce. V who swears he doesn’t like tomatoes and peppers (I didn’t tell him dish consists of the mentioned ingredients) exclaimed that it’s one of the yummiest breakfast he had.
Baker and Spice make use of organic and local produce all year round in their menu.
Baker & Spice – Souk Al Bahar
P.O. BOX 116593, Dubai, UAE
P: +971 4 4252240
F: +971 4 4252241
Vs First Play – Peter Pan the Never Ending Story
photo credit: http://platinumlist.net/peterpan
V saw above poster while we were driving towards Dubai Marina and asked us if he can watch Peter Pan.
After 3 months of waiting, he finally watched his first live play with Daddy.
He called me after and simply said “It was awesome Mom! I’m sorry you & Chloe didn’t watch it with me”
The morning after, I showed him a tweet from Wendy. Made him smile all day and kept repeating “Mama, she sent me a message. I can’t believe it!”
My V, don’t grow up too fast.
Chore Chart
“Mom/Dad, you know what Vat19 has a new toy. I did really good in school today, can we buy the toy from Vat19?”
As a rule, we don’t buy toys if it’s not there birthday and we should always stay within budget – sadly we don’t stick by this rule, sometimes V manage to persuade us (especially his Dad). We currently have 3 box full of Vs toys plus his growing Skylanders collection.
When he wants the latest toy presented online – we reply with, you have to work hard and save money to buy it. He still doesn’t get school money, he get’s to save by collecting coins he finds around the house.
hmmm, should we give him school money? At what age did you start giving your kid school money?
V reminded me to put on his good list chart (suppose to be his advent activity that we didn’t get to do), for him to earn tokens. The idea led to creating the kids their first chore chart.
For each competed task they get one triangle, collect 5 triangles and they get a star. At the end of the week if they manage to get 5 stars they earn 1 token. Each token equals to 0.25 dhs (Daddy thinks I should make it to .50), they can cash out tokens if they’ve save a total of 5.00 dhs or 20 tokens. I will then deduct 10% for savings.
whew! I hope that by doing the chore chart V learns the value of hard work and savings.
Do you use chore chart system in your house? How do you do it?
You can download  MyNappytales Chore Chart and change list as you need them.
Cuddles and Crumbs 