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First Time at the Spa

I’ve been waiting for the day that I could take my niece to the day spa to get our nails done. That day has arrived! Mei-Lin has been talking about this day for the whole week, so we made a lunch date out of it. My sister and I try to make sure we spend time together with our kids, and we had such a great time. We kept it close by going to Happy Nails at our local mall. Click on any picture to enlarge. I hope you enjoy our day in pictures as much as we did!

Precious Moments

It’s times like this that I love being a mom. I get to reflect on how wonderful it is to be a parent and what it means to have brought life into the world. To watch him marvel at his surroundings and see him develop everyday is more than words can describe. Deon and I always just look at each other and say “Can you believe it?” Even asleep, my wonderful little boy is amazing.

How precious is this moment? So precious I had to capture it and share it.

Upside Down is So Right Up

Dominic is mesmerized right now. Puppet. Shmuzzies. Fido. Action Fingers. Shane. David. I don’t know what magic they hold, but they’ve got a hold of my son.

The Upside Down Show - Nick Jr

Have you seen “The Upside Down Show” on Nick Jr? It’s a live action show featuring Shane Dundas and David Collins as brothers who live in a house with crazy rooms and lively characters. They perform a lot of physical comedy involving a “remote that does heaps of cool things.” This imaginary remote allows the viewers to take control of the brother’s actions, including pause, fast forward, slow motion, instant replay (my favorite) and rewind.

If you ask Dominic to show you “Action Fingers”, he will imitate the little digital heroes Knuckles and Pointy. Basically, it’s the fingers of Shane and David as super heroes that they call upon to assist them throughout the show (imagine the Yellow Pages fingers running around the show performing heroic stunts).

I looked Shane and David up, and they are physical comedians from Australia called The Umbilical Brothers. They created 13 episodes of “The Upside Down Show” back in 2006 for Nick Jr. From what I’ve read, the reviews were not great so they were not renewed for the next season.

I think Dominic would beg to differ because he loves this show (he just laughed out loud at the Shmuzzies, little fuzzy creatures that thrive on rhyming). I will be buying the DVD’s of their only season because it will come in handy for when we take that long drive to Las Vegas. We already have 3 DVD’s of “Wow Wow Wubbzy!” and “The Upside Down Show” will be the next set to add to Dominic’s growing library. Again, I don’t know what his fascination is with this show. But if it will hold his attention enough for me to write this blog entry, then they’ve got my vote for best show on Nick Jr.

Razzle Zazzle

Mei-Lin and her mama

I’m definitely one for making gifts rather than buying them, but sometimes the time and energy is just a bit much. Still, I enjoy the satisfaction of giving something of my own design and creativity.

For Mother’s day this year, I designed a t-shirt for my sister on Zazzle.com. I didn’t want to make the typical picture on a shirt design, so I “rocked” it up a bit by choosing a baseball style shirt, used a black & white version of a picture I took of my niece and added “Mum says I ROCK!” for more of that Brit flair.

I was very happy with the result! I have one that I made of my son as well (I’ll post it later). I took a picture and submitted it to Zazzle’s blog to get a coupon on my next purchase (my mom wants one, too), and I received an email that they would post it to their site at some point. Click on the picture on the left to be taken to their blog and you’ll see my sister and her daughter on Zazzle’s website (you have to scroll down a bit to the July 2 entry, under “Foto Friday”).

(Isn’t my niece cute? She definitely knows how to pose for the camera. Believe it or not, I didn’t teach her that.)

Photo by Cyrillynn Chen

Channeling Angus Young

H&M shirt with tie, Circo shorts (Target), Baby Gap hat, Converse sneakers

While we were in Las Vegas (where my husband grew up), grandma got Dominic a little shirt with a tie from H&M, so I took it a step further. He was going to audition for AC/DC, but decided to have a snack first. Priorities, man.

If you haven’t visited H&M’s kids section, you should. For the price, you can get your kid miles of style.