Latest Posts

Car seat outbursts

Published by

This is not the usual cutie patootie posts about our LittleMiss.

I don’t drive so I always sit at the back with the kids, C and I find the seating arrangement convenient so I can attend to whatever request V and LittleMiss needs (water, food, tissue, breastfeed – yes I’ve found a way to feed LittleMiss while both of us are buckled in the back).

We bought V his car seat when he was around 3 years old and he never had a meltdown while seated. LittleMiss however started fighting getting strapped on to her car seat, carrier and stroller at 11 months. Most of the time I give in and end up letting her sit in my lap. Why? She starts crying, screaming and vomiting that we end up not having a fun family day. Once she ended having a mild fever from her car seat outburst from Al Qusais to Dubai Mall.

Photos below taken while we were waiting for Dad C to come back.

CarSeat Outburst

As soon as I put her down this happens.

CarSeat Outburst2

And when I still refuse to get her she vomits.

Her outbursts has cause me stress whenever we go out. I’ve tried offering her toys, singing favorite songs, and breastfeeding (this usually works) but as soon as she unlatch we’re back to crying.

Any advise? Should we change her car seat? Ignore her completely? (ignoring her is really hard for me)

Food we ate along Nathan Road

Published by

One will never go hungry along Nathan Road, Hong Kong. Sharing with you some snaps of food we enjoyed during our 5 days stay.

Gong Cha – We ordered Taro and Black Tea. C and I thinks that it needs a little more flavor and sweetness, but it might be just us asking the wrong mix? They speak very little English we had to give our order fast (long queue behind us).

GongCha Tea Hong Kong

 Almost everyone walking with us had this particular bubble tea in hand.

Food Corner – Located just a block away from our hotel this food stall was a busy one, they had siomai, fish balls, beef tripe, pork innards, octopus meat and a whole lot more.
Food Corner Stall Nathan Road

  Busy Food Corner Hong Kong

V’s favorite food place along Nathan Road.

 We had a long walk to reach Nathan Congee & Noddle place for breakfast.

20130820-080514.jpg

 

I ordered Congee with Pork Liver

20130820-080555.jpg

 a complimentary sweet bread in every table

20130820-080635.jpg

 Hubby C ordered Beef Noodles

Food on Stick – We passed by this place and it had a long queue which tempted us to join the crowd as well. Sold here are Squid/Octopus and Pork innards on stick served cold with mustard and what I think is hoisin sauce. Taking photo was not allowed, good thing I was able to snap a photo of the stall name before they opened.

20130820-080730.jpg

20130820-080800.jpg

 

Cafe de Coral – We discovered the restaurant on our last day located in the 2nd floor of a building across the Food Corner.

20130820-080857.jpg

20130820-080919.jpg

20130820-080944.jpg

20130820-081023.jpg

 

As much as I want to explore the food scene along Nathan Road it was quite challenging with a baby who refuse to sit on the stroller or carrier and who was not happy on a crowded place. When the kids are older we will go back and try to eat at each food stall along Nathan Road.

 

*photo taken using my iPhone 5

World Breastfeeding Week 2013

Published by

Happy Breastfeeding Week! All milking mama’s

20130801-164035.jpg

Breastfeeding week starts today till August 7. Here in Dubai though we celebrate it in November because the country observes Ramadan this month.

20130801-164122.jpg

LittleMiss turned 13 months and still breastfeeding. I weaned V from the breast weeks before he turned 2 years old, this time though I have no plans of weaning her by that age.

20130801-164855.jpg

I would like to thank my MIL for staying with us when I gave birth and for my husband C for the support and always cheering that we can do it.

20130801-165003.jpg

Thank you also to Breastfeeding Q&A UAE Group for the listening, advise and stories that accompanied me on the wee hours while I feed my baby.

Read more abouth this years theme at World Breastfeeding Week

Reach out and share your breastfeeding journey Mama’s!

Giveaway: Smurfs 2 movie tickets

Published by

*Giveaway close. Winner has been notified.

It has been a week since we got back from vacation and I’m slowly getting back to our usual routine.

We missed a lot of events here in Dubai while having a grand time back home, so happy though that we are back just in time for Smurfs 2 movie!

I’m giving away two movie tickets to watch Smurfs 2 from “Build-a-Bear Workshop”

Who is your favorite Smurf?
Leave a comment below to win the tickets!

Winner will be announced Saturday, August 2, 2013.

20130730-113546.jpg

Skylanders Limited Edition for E3

Published by

LittleMan V requested that we put his collection on the blog, so here it is.

TheCaidoy's Skylanders Collection

We give V rewards whenever he does good in school (he was perfect in all his dictation sheets in class and passed school entrance exam), and he would always ask for toys and on that particular toy store trip he was looking for the Trash Pack toys but it was not available.  Good thing it was not available!

Daddy came home one night with the Skylanders PS3 Starter Pack and from then on Vs collection has reached to 30 characters.  He’s watching videos and reading about them. He made a video about them which I recorded using my iPhone.

We followed Skylander gamers on youtube and he learned about the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and asked us to go the expo. He felt really bad when he learned that those who went to the expo got limited edition Skylander characters. I told him that one of Mama’s friend was in the E3 expo, both V and Dad exclaimed that Mama has cool friends. I even became the coolest Mom when I told him that our twitter Dahlink Nick got a Limited E3 Skylander character. V asked if he can visit Uncle Nick and get to see his Skylanders Bronze Hot Dog E3 Release.

Before I got a chance to ask Nick if we can see his Skylanders E3 release I got a message inviting us to drop by his office for some E3 goodies. So we did right after Vs graduation, and we were in for a big surprise.

Limited E3 Skylanders Collection with Uncle Nick

Uncle Nick handed him goodies from the expo and also gave V two Limited Skylanders E3 release – Silver Spyro (E3 2012) and Bronze Hot Dog (E3 2013). He was beaming with happiness and declared to his Dad that Uncle Nick gave him the best gift of his life.  THANK YOU Uncle Nick!

 

V with friends

V’s friends declared him the coolest!

2013 School Year Ends

Published by

Kindergarten Graduation Photo

My LittleMan V graduates from Kindergarten.

Yesterday, he bid farewell to his school friends and teachers. It was our first graduation ceremony and along with other parents we have each witnessed how our children grew from the teary eyed KG1 babies to confident KG2 students.

This September he will move up to big school as a Year 1 student in a new school.

A big THANK YOU to all his teachers, classmates, nanny, and school bus driver for making his kindergarten life a fun one.

V leads the boys as they sing “Glowing Inside” to say Thank You to Mom & Dad

 

Breastfeeding in Public

Published by

You are sitting in a cafe enjoying a cup of coffee when suddenly you overheard someone asking a mother to breastfeed her child somewhere else because that person thinks its inappropriate and disgusting.

What would you do?

Sian from our UAE breastfeeding group posted the following videos conducted by abcnews.com on how customers in a cafe reacted to the situation.

Breastfeeding an infant in public.

Breastfeeding a toddler in public.

I am very happy that UAE is a breastfeeding friendly country. I have breastfed Vierte when he was a toddler and now Chloe who is 11 months, in public with and without a cover and I haven’t had a bad experience.

Some malls and establishments here have dedicated baby rooms where a mom can breastfeed her baby.

On the Breastfeeding Q&A UAE Facebook group, the most common question asked for new expat families is whether they can breastfeed in public.

Here’s an excerpt from Sian’s article on breastfeeding in public.

The great news is that both Islam and UAE society are in favor of breastfeeding (the Qur’an in fact teaches that babies have the right to breastfeed for two years), and it is common for mums and babies to breastfeed in public places wherever you are in the country. The Ministry of Health has publicly affirmed the right of a mother to feed her child wherever she is without being hassled, and the Department of Islamic Affairs confirms that this is perfectly acceptable, as long as the mother remains appropriately covered and follows normal dress etiquette if men are present –

See more at: http://brightbabyhood.com/breastfeeding-public/?wpmp_switcher=desktop#sthash.XIVqozNi.dpuf

Link to the complete article here

Just like any hungry adult, when a baby is hungry that baby needs to feed.

To be able to breastfeed a baby is a blessing. God blessed each mom that gift and power to nurture her child.

Next time you see a mother breastfeeding her child be thankful that you get to witness such blessing.

Don’t ask her to move to the toilet to feed her child unless you’re willing to enjoy your meal in the stall next to them!