I am amazed at how just hearing certain songs, a whole flood of memories of old comes gushing to ones mind. The weird thing is, with my past romantic relationships, I don't have any songs that can reconnect me to those memories. Kahit pa those happy memories nila.

A Mommy & Baby Fair this August

I'm inviting everyone to visit EMBODYMENT ORGANICS' booth on August 2-8, 2010 at Eastwood Mall.

 Taken from Ms. Adeline Ravana's Embodyment Organic website:

Sharing an extensive line of 
home spa luxury and everyday personal care 
EMBODYMENT Organic Essentials products
made with all-natural ingredients 
sourced from the world’s
diverse flora.

Try Embodyment's lip butter and their really moisturizing nicely scented soaps.

Fighting eczema

My son has eczema.

It first appeared when he was 3 1/2 years old. It appeared as small raised dry itchy lesions with some redness Lactacyd Baby Bath on this left thigh. I thought it was fungal, good thing it was not. Eczema as per the books says, is hereditary. Makes sense in Albert's case since this seems to run in my family (two sisters and my grandmother). Asthma as well, which in my son's case likewise appeared almost the same time his eczema manifested. But his asthma was mild, and appears only whenever he got too rowdy at playing.

Some people mistakenly considers eczema as infectious. It is NOT.

image source here

His eczema seemed to worsened when I switched his toiletries from Oilatum & Lactacyd for kids to organic shampoo & body wash of Human Heart Nature. Maybe he's just not hiyang. HHN can be a bit drying to the skin, which if you have eczema will make it worse. So I switched him to Cetaphil for his body wash, while retaining HHN as his shampoo.

I also bought  Elica (mometasone) ointment for the topical treatment of  his eczema (as prescribed by his pediatrician, so please consult first your pediatric dermatology on this one and do not self treat especially with kids).

I'm also adding Clusivol multivitamins for kids for him. His appetite has not improved much with Appebon appetite vitamins for kids.

Namaste!

Toy Woes

The hard thing of bringing someone as young as my kid to the malls is they seem to have a great talent in finding the toy stores. I so dread  seeing the toy section of any department stores or  mall when the kiddo is with us. Why oh why do they have to place the toys the same floor as the home & kitchen sections? Why do they have to bring those blinking, reeling, remote-controlled toy cars out for moms & their kids to see? I almost lost my cool to one male salesclerk in this famous department store for really hard selling a toy car worth almost 3 thousand pesos to my son! I bought instead a Thomas train track set even though it cost almost the same. At least no batteries needed to play with it.

Toys are ok to buy, but I have one exception --those battery operated remote toy cars. You have to purchase 3-4 pieces of AA batteries for the car itself, and one rectangular shaped battery for the remote. But you have to get 2 sets each, one set is for back-up later when the first ones dies out. Andali pa masira pati.

I really prefer educational toys, and some wooden toys. And for toy cars, I buy the sturdier metal ones that adults collect.

Today these are what we bought ( I secretly replaced the remote toy car my kid initially picked and insisted while he was not looking hehe):

  train classics made of wood

PRICE:  40php  (marked down from 80php)

 And this...

Its made of natural wood with good finish and unpainted.
You have to assemble it. It came with a small screw driver, and screws.
NOTE: Adult supervision isof course needed.

Albert and his tita Gel had fun assembling it to this:

It isn't finished though when I took a photo of it.  Albert would not give the last two pieces.

PRICE:  100 php   (marked down from 300 php)
Bought it at a ground floor SM department  store outlet in Sm San Lazaro Manila.

Both toys are not for children under 3 years old.


 Namaste!

New book finds

New books for me..

I got intrigued with Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey. 

Well, Agnes happens to be my name so there.

I can't wait to read  Emilie Zola's  L'Assommoir.
But please don't ask me to pronounce the book's title. Spelling it here is hard enough.
For a brief synopsis of both books, just click the highlited words.

A book for Buboy too!

He picked it himself.
I can not wait for the day when I have him  as a reading buddy, swapping books, and browsing through.
 books after books inside a bookshop.

Mickey mouse is his current obsession.

  And so is  the school-going sheep, Timmy  of Timmy Time.

Source click here.

I'm a bit worried though with having Timmy as his favorite.

All Albert says now is "meheheheee".

Namaste!

Among My Fave Books

Whenever I feel depressed or lost with life, I go back to reading this:

I'm a huge huge  fan of  Dr. Scott Peck, and I have almost all of his Road Less Traveled book series.

My first Road Less Traveled was introduced to me by Abbie, my lovely roomate in college. 

If there are books that you ought to read in your lifetime, Dr. Scott Peck's books should be one of  them.

 Namaste!

Books for learning.

Its no secret that I love books. All kinds of bookshops would really pull me in. Nowadays, I do not browse and shop for books for myself alone. Being a mom to a 4 yo. I'm constantly in search for good books that can help in my Buboy's education.

Coloring books

My son's favorite color must be yellow.

He likes identifying things that are yellow.

He even colors them yellow.

 

Bought all these at a store in SM San Lazaro, the one near the kid's playroom, at the basement floor.

Currently Reading: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Suite Francaise