Our Little Nicholas

Yes I’m a toddler, and yes I’m 15 months old and is now quickly climbing up to my 16th… oh boy! I’m not an infant anymore? But I’m still my Mommy’s baby… right Mommy?

Mommy’s been reading her book, What To Expect the Toddler Years, a gift she received from whattoexpect.com for being such a great Mommy According to her book, I should be able to walk well, pick up an object and use at least one word by now. Hmmm.. let me see…

• I am running and jumping a lot
• I pick and throw my toys (I love you Mommy)
• I call Mommy “Mama”, and Daddy “Dadda”, I say “baba” all the time (since I wanna go down and run), I say “no-no” when I don’t want what you want, I say “buhhh” when I want Mommy to read me my books, I say “woof” when Mommy asks me what the dog said, I say “mel” when I want my milk, hey! I say all I want to say! Hihihi!
• I drink from a cup (but I prefer the bottle, Mommy… please…)
• I scribble with my crayons (under Mommy’s hawk eyes because I might scribble on my tongue too, hihihi)
• I point to what I want Mommy to get me (especially food :))
• I point to my nose and ear when Mommy asks me where they are (I sometimes interchange them though, hahaha)
• I am proud that I can use my spoon now (but half of the food goes to the floor not in my mouth)
• I can build a 4-storey “tower” with my toys and shape blocks
• I feed Mommy too (she thinks it’s cute and sweet but I think it makes her happier if I feed myself)
• I imitate the kids in the television, especially the dancing and the screaming part
• I kick and throw my ball (in fact, I can throw and kick anything if I like to, hahaha!)
• I brush my teeth by myself (only after Mommy brushed my teeth for me, I know she’s just letting me play with my toothbrush a little)

Hey! What do you know? I passed the 15-month old test! Yehey! Congratulations to me! Now I know why Mommy is smiling everytime she reads her book, even giggles sometimes, as if Daddy’s tickling her Maybe she thinks about me doing some cute and funny stuff, hihihi!

But I know Mommy’s concerned about some stuff too, it’s not bed of roses with me all the time. I admit, sometimes I’m being a thorn to Mommy as well, especially when I’m not in the mood and would just want to bawl and cry and throw things… or when I insist on feeding myself and end up feeding the floor and the chair instead… or when I want to walk just anywhere I want to even if it leads towards a hungry, waiting dog.

Well, I’m still young, Mommy will continue to teach me and Daddy’s there to help her discipline me so I’m not worried. I’m just enjoying my toddler time, I promise I’ll be a good boy Mama, Dadda I love you guys…

I know this is too late a post for my little angel but well, I was reading a book this afternoon and realized just how “unprepared” I was for my baby’s arrival. I mean, in the book, the heroine, Jo, was getting busy preparing a Baby Shower for her soon-to-be-Mom bestfriend. I know I’m a little jealous because no one really went through such trouble for my little angel and me but I guess I can’t blame my friends and relatives because I’m pretty far from them.

My Own Baby Shower of Love

Then I found myself imagining what could be my baby’s theme, his motif if I ever had a baby shower for him. I mentally “ohhed” and ‘ahhed” to the colorful and magical images that came into my mind. I got so excited that I went to my computer right there and then and started looking out for baby shower themes in the net.

I was rather delighted when I found Bellissimo Favors. It is actually a great online shop for bridal and baby shower favors and all other favors and stuff for all occasions! I excitedly clicked “Baby Shower Gifts for Mom-To-Be” and oh boy was I envious! Wouldn’t I love to have that adorable “Pig in a Blanket”? It reminds me so much of the silly game that my little angel and I used to play (we play “let’s sell this pig to the market” when he was still smaller and lighter).

Pig in a Blanket @ Bellissimo Favors

And what about that “Welcome to the World” gift set? Shucks! It’s way too cute! I want those! And gosh! They even have personalized baby shower hang tags! Sigh! Why didn’t I have my own baby shower? Now I’m really jealous of Jo’s bestfriend! Tsk!

Welcome to the World Set @ Bellissimo Favors

Oh well, I’ll make sure I’m ready for my little angel’s first birthday! I know it’s still 5 months away but it doesn’t hurt to be prepared right?

While online searching for children’s books, I came across a great site which sells Babies Language DVD along with other fun and educational languages products. These languages range from French, Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, English and even Japanese, all for kids! Wow! I’m impressed! Wouldn’t you be?

What impressed me more is the way they encourage parents to teach several languages to babies… babies! Whoa! I never thought it is possible but Little Pim believes that in language teaching, starting early is always the key to success. Hmmm… My little angel – multilingual? I say, why not?!

I took my time in looking up the site and read on their discoveries, methods, testimonials and reviews and found out that at Nico;s age, I should take advantage of his natural, though transitory, penchant for learning several languages. It made me think, is it really possible? I guess I’ll have to think about this a million times before I went on investing Nico’s savings. After all, this is all for his learning and development.

But first, I’ll have to continue my book shopping or else I’ll have no book to read to my little angel tonight. I’ll be coming back to this site, perhaps purchase a DVD or two

Ever since the approval of my credit card application 4 years ago, I have been doing a lot of shopping in the net. I purchased books online, along with e-books, tutorial and reviewer CDs, as well as shoes, jewelry and other women’s apparel.

Well, little Nicholas is turning 2 months on the 15th of February and I think I should be getting him a stroller now so we can have our leisure walks (and maybe even window shopping!) every now and then. I was planning on going to the mall and find a good stroller for him but I got a little lazy. Also, I was thinking about several things like, “what style would fit him” or “what precautions must be considered at his age”, among other things. Thus, I decided to do some onwin shopping (my own word for online window shopping, hehehe!) just to get a picture of what I should be buying.

I never thought online shopping would be this fun and educational when I found ShopWiki in the net. I was amazed with all the information they have on almost everything that everybody wants to purchase online (Well, with 223,963,832 products from every store, you’ll have plenty of choices alright!). The site is actually not selling anything at all, it’s doing something more worthwhile and praiseworthy. The site makes any product available on the site and if that isn’t enough, they even have buying guides so as to help shoppers become intelligent online buyers.

And so I let the site make an intelligent buyer out of me by visiting their stroller buying guide before leaping on the product pages wherein a wide variety of strollers with image, price and basic information are available. You can even narrow down the displayed products by their price, brand and color filters. I really like the information they give about strollers too. I think I fell in love with many full-featured strollers that they offer. Why not? Aside from being convenient and adaptable, it’s more solid, more spacious, much safer, comes with a canopy and many other accessories that will make strolling with Baby Nico fun and expedient.

Oh wow! Time flies so fast when you’re having fun huh! The site is taking too much of my time! I assure you, it is indeed a great baby shopping site not only for strollers but also for all other baby products such as baby bags and carriers, car seats, nursing and feeding stuff, infant and toddler clothing, toys and many more! What are you waiting for? Do some intelligent shopping now!

Yey! And the award banner has Buttercup’s cute face too!

Yup, yup, yup, this is my baby’s site’s first blog award and Mommy Kaye gave this to him. The award is called the Power Blog Award, now isn’t it neat?

Well, the award comes with a set of rule too, and since Mommy tries to be a law-abiding citizen here it goes…

Hmmm… Mommy’s doing Rule Number 1 right now… Rule Number 2 says 10 bloggers, 10! Hmmm… Lemme see… Yep, I guess I can see to that.. Rule Number 3 will definitely keep Mommy busy huh!

Now here are Little Nicholas and Mommy’s awardees (Tan-da-da-dan!):

Bryan of Health and Fitness (hope he likes Buttercup, hahaha!)

Mommy May of Nothing Gold Can Stay

Mommy Maddie of New Parents Guide

Rosilie of Rosilie: My Blog

Marly of Workplace on the Web

Mommy Dianna of Parenting and Baby Tips

Mommy Ruby of Pinay Mommy Online

Mommy Trish of Preschool Playbook

Mommy Elvz of Straight From the Heart

Pretty Noemi of The Chronicles of a Cross-Cultural Couple

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