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Saturday Family Bonding At The Mall

August 3, 2013 No Comments

weekends, family time, movie date, spending quality time with your children, movies, family time — the little man with his new Smurfs toys

We rarely plan a family activity on Saturdays since Jared has playschool on those days but this Saturday was an exception. We were supposed to go out yesterday to watch the movie, Turbo, but we were not able to do so, so we moved it for today. The little man wanted to see this film about snails who race so we trooped to SM Baliwag to finally watch it.

The mall was packed with shoppers because of the 3-day sale, but it was a good thing fast foods, as well as parking spaces, are not too cramped that we were able to park promptly and find an available table at McDonald’s in no time. We’d almost always choose Chowking since they have healthier food options and Jared just love their Pancit Canton, but after ordering his usual for takeaway, we headed to McDonald’s so that we can grab him a few Smurfs toys.

After having our stomachs filled, we headed to buy our movie tickets. It was still an hour or so before the movie started so I whisked my two boys to my favorite shop in the world, the bookstore, to look around. I was planning to buy some craft supply like colored papers and glue, which I shall be using for the little man’s birthday celebration. Of course, I also made sure to get a stash of postcards, while we were there.

After paying at the bookstore’s till we proceed to the second-floor cinema. We are just in time as the last screening’s credits are just traversing on the big screen. The little man was all eyes as the movie played on.

All about Turbo

Turbo is all about a small garden snail, Theo, who dreams of becoming a great racer just like his favorite Indianapolis 500 champ, Guy Gagne. His passion for anything that involves speed makes him the odd one out in the usually cautious and slow snail community, and a constant source of disappointment to his brother, Chet.

In his constant need for speed, he found himself on the road one night, taking a road trip courtesy aboard the zooming cars! One thing led to another and he landed on a drag racer’s car engine and had his DNA infused with nitrous oxide. The once-dreaming-of-speed snail became a speedster, zooming past everything in his wake. He went back to his snail community to share the good news with them but it all led to a catastrophe with a bike careening into the garden and destroying a big portion of their lazy little community. He was fired from his garden crew duties and was ordered to leave the group because of his never-ending misdemeanors. His brother, Theo, whom he saved from pesky crows, was also fired from the garden.

Tito of Dos Bros Tacos found the unsuspecting garden snails and brought them to their lack luster strip mall and got them to race with a gang of other snails, led by Whiplash and his crew Burn, White Shadow, Smoove Move, and Skidmark. Human and snails alike were dazzled by Theo’s unbelievable speed and he instantly gain the respect of his new community. The ever-cautious Chet, meanwhile, was only reeking with disapproval for Theo’s new venture.

Meanwhile, Tito thought of one ambitious yet seemingly outrageous idea ~ he will enter his precious snail to the Indianapolis 500 race! Theo, who’ve christened himself, Turbo, was so excited about the idea and cannot wait to give the famed Indiana race track a go! They overcame a number of hurdles before Turbo was finally allowed to run the race.

And what do you know, the little snail won, beating 25 seasoned race care drivers, among them his ultimate favorite Guy Gangne and became quite a sensation! But did I say it was not his ultra-speed that won him the race? Oh well, that’s what you have to find out when you go see this film with your little ones.

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Go To Mom + Me This Weekend

May 22, 2013 No Comments

Weekends are the perfect time for mums and kiddos to bond and if you do not have plans for this weekend yet, you might as well check out the Mom & Me event happening at the Rockwell Tent on 25-26 May, from 10am-8pm. The event offers chock-full of exciting and interesting activities both mum and kids will like.

The activities that I cannot wait to try are the Mom and kids Yoga, Taekwondo demonstration, as well as the cooking demo from McCormick and the Filipino story telling by the learning basket. I am also excited to check out the shops that are lined up for the occasion. Not to mention the exciting prizes that are up for grabs for lucky participants. Among the raffle prizes are tickets to Enchanted Kingdom, a FREE diamond peel courtesy of Slimmers World, a HALO sleepsack, an ELBA microwave oven, 1 week of unlimited Yoga at I Go Beyond Yoga, to name a few.

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Here’s the detailed schedule for the 2-day event:

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Our Simple Mother’s Day Celebration

May 13, 2013 2 Comments

spending quality time with your children, Mother's Day, simple pleasures, mum's thoughts — Mother’s Day morning

It was a fine day, Mother’s Day. I had no special presents or fancy dinner, just a couple of greetings from friends and family. I had a very simple yet special celebration with my son. I devoted the day entirely to his needs and wants. And come to think of it, Jared is the reason why I am celebrating this day of mums and it is only fitting that I did it spending my time with and for him. Just the way I like it!

My first gift of the day came in forms of wet kisses when the little man woke up. I was teaching him how to say “Mummy, Happy Mother’s Day!” but he has his own version. Instead of what I taught he will always tell me, “Mummy, Happy Mummy’s Day!” I thought that was rather sweet! :heart:

Initially we planned to spend the day out by visiting my parents at the memorial and going to the mall to dine out, but the little man had other plans in mind. He said he wanted to watch cartoons on the telly and I agreed. By the time I was ready to go, he said he’d like to see Toy Story again and reasoned that it is still hot outside for us to go out. I have discovered not too long ago that you cannot win any argument with a toddler, so after giving quite a good fight, I finally gave in. Besides, it was really quite hot outside and we are both having a bit of cough and colds. Put Toy Story on and prepared some afternoon snacks for me and the little man. He was content with the rice crackers and pineapple juice I gave him and did not even give the carrot sticks with butter cookie a second look!

By 6pm, we found this cute film showing in one of the local channels and decided to watch it. I had no idea Chicken Run is a clay animation thing, nevertheless, we liked it, at least the part that we were able to catch. By this time, too, the little man requested dinner and asked for his current favorite ~ corned beef. I was not planning to cook dinner anymore since he’s not normally up to the task and would rather have his bottle, but since the little man requested for it, I quickly prepared the ingredients and sauteed one can of corned beef from our stash. We had a lovely simple dinner and I was delighted the little man ate a lot!

By bedtime, even without his afternoon nap, Jared still had enough energy in him to ask me to write the alphabet on his Iron Man 3 notebook. I told him we’d do this in the bedroom. After a couple of letters, I told him it was time for us to sleep and that we’d continue with our alphabet the next day. Tired and sleepy, he readily agreed and its light out!

How was your Mother’s Day Celebration?

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