So, I brought her to McDonald’s…and here what we got: McDonald’s Happy Meal (nuggets, apple, french fries and milk drink) then I got Chicken and Sprite Float. She’s so busy opening the mini-Barbie toy that’s included in the meal, doesn’t even want to look at the camera!

And here’s she is enjoying her nuggets, she loves it…and yes, she finished eating it.

She also requested to have picture with McDonald’s, oh, well…here she is:

Then after eating, I brought her to the toy shop and let her choose 3 toys. She had fun and I love to see that she enjoyed the day. 15 minutes before 2:oo o’clock, we get out at Big C to pick-up Kuya CJ in school. It was never-ending thank you and I love you Mommy in the taxi, it was priceless! We arrived just in time in Kuya’s school…we just brought him pineapple pie, he loves it!

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Oh, well, hope you like what you see…its Rainbow Cake with Edible Butterfly Decor, Rainbow Jell-o, Rainbow Milk Shots, Rainbow Twizzlers, Goldfish, Jellies, Gelatine Stick, and Rainbow Cupcake with Edible Rainbow and Butterfly Cupcake Topper. I had great time putting up it all together, the preparation was fun. I also enjoyed baking and cooking.

Anyway, I will be sharing my inspirations, recipes and Etsy suppliers were I bought bits and pieces of this party soon, still busy and need some rest. Hehehe!

But BIG THANK YOU to those individuals who joined the fun…we truly appreciate your presence and making Isabelle’s party more special. And thanks God for making it a great one!

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~ Happy Birthday Isabelle! ~

Anyway, my precious sweetie toddler is growing into a fully pledged little person who talks, chats a lot in full sentences and is able to express her emotions and feelings. She never baby talk. She’s ahead of her age, she can count now, say the alphabet, sing a lot of songs, identifies colors and shapes, she can dress herself and even knew how to choose what to wear, put her own shoes and tongs, eat with a fork and spoon. She’s the star of the house now, she always have shows for us—wherein we all have to sit and watch her doing her dancing, singing, story telling and ballet, or even just acting as an animals and just running around back and forth…with all these, we need to clap and applaud her. She even do bows after every performance. But what great now is, she’s starting to be a little helper—she wanted to join in whatever I am doing, she’s always ready to help…she help mixing cake mixes, watched as I fry eggs and do the cooking…she have to check and inspect everything that I am doing specially in the kitchen. And as always, she loves books and loves bedtime stories. She also loves watching movies on t.v. or watching YouTube, yes, believe it or not she knows how to move the laptop mouse and click that left button to play Mickey Mouse, Barney, Peppa Pig, Lazy Town, Justin Fletcher shows and a lot more…

I hope she will always have that thirst to learn new things, learning how to learn and learning how to behave. But yes, she’s still a fussy eater and sleeping patterns changes from day to day or time to time! Hope it gets better as we go along this year. She’s also not potty train yet but she let us know if she did it, we will start the training soon…wish me luck!

She’s also so ready for school…we will be joining playgroups soon offered by some schools here! And she’s so good with friends and with other kids. She’s such an independent little person. She always makes me laugh and happy, she never forgets to say I love you! And oh, she memorized our prayer every night, she lead the prayer sometime!

Nowadays, we are busy doing some artworks, painting on paper, drawing board, wooden frame, etc. I just hope I can fill her growing child day’s with creative, stimulating and enjoyable play each day!

As she turn 3, I know we will have great year ahead…I wish her every mom will wish for her daughter and I am happy that she’s growing such a beautiful girl, inside and out! I am such a lucky mum to have her and my son! Well, I am excited for her to discover new things around her beautiful life. And as always thank you Lord for giving her to us…for letting us enjoy each day together!

Happy Birthday, Isabelle…

We love you so much, you will always be our princess!

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Anyway, here are the counter and dining area…

Their menu’s adjusted to Thai foods…spicy and stuff like that although they have classic burger! And here are the burgers we got:

K got Massaman Curry Pork Burger…

3 of us got Pork Classic Burger with fries and drinks!

Lastly, us…happy diners in spite of…well, the burger is not big as we expect, taste is just ok but not something that I will recommend! What makes us happy was that kid enjoyed their burger and fries plus had a good time playing around because yeah, no other customers—its only us there that time!

Although the staff were nice to us…and even gave the burger canister for kids to play at home. And we’ve been to K Village few times after that but we didn’t go back at the Heawen yet, maybe someday, sometime…

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The Patuxai Park is the most prominent landmark of the city, started in 1957 and completed in 1968. The arc de Triomphe in Paris inspired the architecture of the monument but the design incorporates typical Lao motifs like “Kinnari,” a mythical bird woman in Laos. And all those pictures taken from the top of the monument that shows an excellent panoramic view of the city!

Lovely, isn’t it? Its beauty and simplicity were perfect to captured one’s heart. My stay was short but I had a great time…I enjoyed going around the city thru “truck-buses.” I wish I could visit the place again with my family and see more of Vientiane. Its a trip that I will always remember, my first land travel from one country to another and I met few nice people, gain number of friends from all walks of life. Life’s always full of surprises…and yes, got that visa stamped on my passport, yehey!

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I am organizing her party as I always do, I love it and I am happy to do it. I will bake and cook like I did on her second birthday. I will also make her invitation, party hats, cupcake toppers, birthday banner, signs, thank you cards, favor boxes, food/drinks labels, and a lot more with the help of the party printables that I bought at Etsy from DimplePrints, I got a package and I am excited to start doing it, well, at least until when I get back on Saturday…I am actually running late with the invites but I said it to friends already, just need to get the invitation out soon for formality!

Anyway, I am happy that Mike and Carli emailed the pdf files to me today…I bought it April 29, 2012. And here are the sample of those printables that I will be using, got these pictures from their Etsy site—DimplePrints.

Yes, it will be a RAINBOW PARTY…with a bit of ART and happy colors around, after all, she’s a happy girl. I am sure it will be fun.

And for more of their Printable Party Package you can visit their Etsy Shop DimplePrints or for more party ideas, inspirations and more please visit their blog at www.dimpleprints.com for more.

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Shrimp Set…

Ready to eat…

My flight meal going to Phnom Penh, I was asked chicken or shrimp. And I chose shrimp, I got pad thai, pork salad, vanilla pudding, orange juice and water! I like the pad thai, just right for my taste. The pork salad even though it is bit spicy, it was mouth-watering. The dessert was lovely, too. All-in-all, I was able to finished my food…I must be hungry then! Hehehe!

While on my flight going back to Bangkok on that same day, I was asked chicken or fish and here’s my choice:

Fish Set…

Yummy…

I had fish fillet with assorted vegetables, papaya salad, strawberry cheesecake and drinks! The fish fillet meal was served with two kinds of rice: brown and jasmine rice, both delicious. The fish fillet was fine with me but I didn’t ate some of the veggies. The papaya was really great, I love it, I thought it will be so spicy but its just mild. The cake was nice, too! As usual, I got orange juice and water for drinks! But they have sotdrinks, assorted juices, tea, coffee, and wines.

It was a good flight back and forth and good meal, that’s why I enjoyed flying with Bangkok Airways! Plus I enjoyed seeing friends even for my few hours of stay and spending an afternoon in Phnom Penh with them.

Yes, the immigration gave me one month tourist visa, which will expire on May 5, 2012 which means I will be traveling again next week to another country to finally get my Education Visa as my Thai Language class started last week. Next stop will be in Vientiane, Laos…for 3 days! Yeay, it will be my first time in the City of Moon!

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Anyway, our first activity last Easter Sunday was egg painting. I just boiled chicken eggs and let the kids paint it, and here are the pictures…

boiled eggs…

happy kids…

Kuya CJ…

Isabelle…

painting, painting and painting…

finishing…

CJ’s work…

Well, the paint that I got wasn’t not the right one for this I think, we used Crayola Washable Paints…next time, I knew better. But still what great is, they enjoyed it. And here’s what they did…painted eggs!

Isabelle…

CJ…

Yeah, you might be wondering the egg in the middle inside the pot, they did that at Fun Arts at K Village a day before Easter…

Next year, I will dye it first…and get better paints for them to enjoy it more! What important then was they had a great time doing it. And we are happy to see them having fun!

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Easter Sweet Table 2012

I know I can do better than this one but with our schedule before Easter I was not able to prepare well…a week before Easter, K went to do field work and I flew to Phnom Penh to get a visa stamped. So, both tired but I am still happy that we had some and kids enjoyed everything we prepared for them.

Easter Sweet Table 2011

Just sharing our Easter Sweet Table last year, its better…yeah, I know! I thought I can do better than that but with events going around, I can’t.

Anyway, here’s what we got in our sweet table this year…

Bunnies and Egg in a Nest Bread…

Oreo and TimTam…

White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies and Donut from Mister Donut…

Orange Juice…

assorted goodies…

Japanese Custard Cake…

Cookies with Hershey’s Chocolate Bar…

Banana Cupcake…

Lastly, I baked a cake and its a disaster, huh, something wrong but kids and K said its delicious…and that’s enough to make me smile. Its a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting then I just added a nest-shaped meringue with Jelly Beans on topped.

And here we are having a good laugh while eating some snacks…

kids with Daddy…

kids with Mommy…

the two kids having fun with bunny ears and bows!

Easter Bible Verse…

Last but not the least, those beautiful Easter Printables that I used is from Bird’s Party…I got it last year after Easter when she put those set on sale. Its lovely but I wasn’t able to give justice with her work, I will definitely used it again and I hope I can do better! But big thanks to those talented individuals like her because it adds color and life to the party! Also, the Easter Bible Verse Subway Art is from Agape Love Designs and Photography, so big thanks to her for sharing beautiful subway art.

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Anyway, here are the pictures and its a lot, so please bear with me! I hope you will enjoy it…

listening to what Easter Bunny’s instructions…remember, he left a note!

Isabelle’s so fast, Daddy’s still reading the message from Easter Bunny…:)

the marker/trail that Easter Bunny put…yellow for Isabelle and green for CJ!

in their bedroom…

closet area…

showing their finds…

counting time…

Hershey’s chocolate bar from us, for working so hard…

…and we also gave them the huge paper egg with lots of goodies inside!

chocolates, jelly beans…

Excited to open their huge paper eggs…:)

Showing the goodies that they got!

With their big happy smile…

Egg hunting bring smiles to them, joy and the excitement of finding one eggs from one place to another. At some point it also show how good Kuya, CJ is by helping Isabelle…and how sweet she is by telling Kuya also that she saw the green ribbon at some place. Nice to know that they are helping each other this early. I just hope that they can bring that good deeds as they grow older. Then after the egg hunting…Daddy let them watched a movie about Easter that he downloaded earlier!

After the movie, we all enjoyed the simple “sweet table” that I prepared, which I will sharing on my next post! Tons of pictures here already…hehehe!

How we prepared it? Well, its just the morning of Easter when they are having a bubble bath while they are busy splashing water and playing with the bubbles…K and I were busy putting all the ribbons and chocolate eggs around the house! And this is the second time we are doing it for the kids! We did it last year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia!

In the end, they both love it…Isabelle even asks for more, hehehe, we just told her that those are the only eggs Easter Bunny left. But we told her that next year, Easter Bunny will come again and hide some chocolate eggs or chicken eggs around (that’s what we used last year) our house! And she’s so happy with that, she’s jumping for joy!

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