A sugar and spice party for the twins!

We had a double-all party for the twins this March.  It was 2 months past their birthday for we had some problems with the venue.  The celebration was supposed to be December. But, because that month is the busiest time of the year we opted to move it and I'm glad I didn't have to rush things for this party.

The party theme was "Sugar and spice and everything nice" party with the colors of Magenta + Tangerine with touches of Lavander.  My twins, Callie and Dashie are my Sugar and Spice and everything nice. Each unique and different in their own special way.  The party speaks everything about my little girls.

My DIY invite.  Made by yours truly. :)

I wanted a unique, simple yet classy, within-budget but memorable 1st birthday party for them.

But, for my twins... all I wanted is a day to celebrate and thank the Lord how we were able to surpass the 1st year of our "Suddenly 3!" experience.  We know that if we were able to surpass a year trusting the Lord for this wonderful journey, then... the years to come will be an expectation of God's ultimate provision of Wisdom and Provision for our family.

The party started with a dedication by our favorite Pastor Etienne.  We love this guy and we personally chose him for the dedication because he is very special in me and my husbands heart.  He is the 1st Pastor in our church who inspires and gives us Godly wisdom especially when me and my husband were just starting out in ministry.

Daddy with the girls and Pastor Etienne!

As to the party, I opted for something unique and different.  But, most importantly I wanted the best and only - THE BEST for my girls (and the big brother).  Being the Mother of Tulle (haha!) Dressing up the birthday girls is not a challenge for I know exactly what they will wear.  An Erin et Vivien Petit Bloom that matches their theme colors (personally made by yours truly), with a pretty swimsuit top, colorful knee-high socks and of course corker screw headbands!

Callie - My funny, outgoing birthday dress (Tutu made by www.erinetvivien.com)

Dashie - My sweet, girly birthday outfit (Tutu by www.erinetvivien.com)

The venue itself is beautiful and I didn't want to go overboard on the decors but, to the experience of the guests - it has to be special.

Part of my 6 months in the making mood board.

The colors from my mood board.

The beautiful photographs were captured by Noel Salazar (http://www.noelsalazar.com) and one of our very cose friend, Axel Exconde.

In lieu of balloons, we made paper pom poms for the centerpiece and decors to be placed on the venue.  These were personally handmade by a dear friend.  I tried doing this but I just can't seem to perfect the way my friend does this... oh so beautifully.

The twins' cute centerpiece!

These were the flower pom poms made as centerpieces.

Part of the decors were the beautiful colors of Magenta and Tangerine!  We had the party catered by Queensland Catering (although, I didn't quite like the way our caterer handled the event).  I will have to post a separate review about them.

The colors bouncing everywhere matched the garden.

I am a designer at heart and can easily make a tarpaulin design backdrop with ease, but after several parties I have done for my son I realized they are not earth-frienldy and are not reusable.  Same with balloon decors, we always end up popping the balloons right after the event.

So we opted for simple, earth-conscious and reusable decors.  The photos on the photowall are used for safekeeping in an album, the paper flowers were to nice to be thrown away so I plan to hang it on the twins' playroom.  The centerpieces were mounted on pots, so it can be used for planting.  After the party, we didn't do much cleaning or rearranging.  The decors were all packed and kept nicely and my parent's house were left clean after the event.

Our backdrop is a simple DIY Photo collage of the twins' Initials. 

D is for Dashie! I can't seem to find Callie's Photo Collage. :/

The real icing on the twins' party - Baked Twinkles' Dessert Table! Superb!

One of the big hit of the party, is the dessert table.  They were beautifully made and set-up by Baked Twinkles!  This was a really, really big hit among my guests.  The sizes were bite-sized for the cupcakes, which were just enough to go back for more.

I got so much complements with the desserts by Baked Twinkles even after the party.  Everything was done so special and I really love how it was set-up.  Thanks so much Baked Twinkles! A perfect 10 for my review!  Till our next orders...

The pretty cake made by Baked Twinkles - Thanks, Nikko!

These are really cute and the twins love these!

I love the personalized touch!

Love the colors and the not-too-sweet but just right Lemon Sensation!

These are simply addicting!

Healthy and very flavorful!

Beautiful and chewy!

My guests loved this while they had coffee during the evening serenade dinner.

Moist Choco Pops! A favorite during the party.

I didn't want to just settle for anything less for the birthday cakes.  I was supposed to get a supplier who makes really good fondant cakes but too bad our date with her schedule is not available anymore.

I could have just bought a regular commercialized birthday cake but, I only want the best for my girls.  So, I researched for the best Chocolate cake in the Philippines and I found... Karen's Kitchen!  3 weeks before the event, I emailed them my order of 1 Chocolate Ganache and 1 Red Velvet Cake.  All with a light pink dedication and a simple pink candle.

Simple, elegant and beautiful were the words that best describes the 1st birthday cake for my twins.  And yes, the cakes were another sure hit during the party.

I had a cake disaster on Callie's cake - but so happy with a loving friend who improvised something.  It was so cute that it resembled Callie's personality.  Dark, sweet and very outgoing!

These were the giveaways to the kids and kids-at-heart. :) Our twin stars and moon.  

For the giveaways, I bought yards of complementing fabrics and had a friend who hired a sewer to make them.  I just gave them a pattern of the shape and voila! Cute!

The prizes! Assorted table alarm clocks, colorful tops, educational bath letters, cute mugs, colored metallic markers, cute pearl bracelets, battery-operated fans, pencil cases, assorted toys, coin bank with lock, and several toys.

I didn't want a magician for this party (it just didn't match with the theme).  But, just to add a bit of entertainment, we had a host (By Anna Banana), a Golden Show (Acrobatic Show) and some cool games.

My Ice (who is a semi-pro :D Razor Scooter Boy) tries out the small bicycle.

Abraham Velasco of The Golden Show!  

We had unicyclists, juggling act, Balancing Act and Mini Bicycle act in one show!

The party did not end just yet, but instead... we had an evening serenade dinner.  We invited a duo musician (Violin + Keyboard) Tales of Music to serenade our guests during the dinner party.  They played all our guests requests, that is how good this group are.

The party is beautiful.  It was simple and sweet.  I didn't hire any party planner but I have all the loving people who helped me make this party possible.  I thank my parents too for the love and support (and the beautiful home) that made the event truly special.  

I guess, there is just no perfect party or event even how much preparation you put in. Beyond all the beautiful decors and things... it is those who took the time, effort and money for your event that makes a lot of difference to make your event perfect in each and every way. 

Daddy and Callie!

Mom and Dashie!

A fun way to teach kids about Sight Words!

My little guy learns a lot if you inject some silly, nonsense humor (sometimes kid-friendly toilet humor).  So, I have improvised something to make him memorize sight words easily!

What are sight words?

Words recognised immediately by the reader without his having to go through the process of breaking them into constituent parts. 

Words such as The, Little, Please, Blue etc. are some words that cannot be sounded out.  So, teaching sight words become very important.  You can check the complete list of the Dolch Sight Words here (http://gemini.es.brevard.k12.fl.us/sheppard/reading/dolch.html).

Anyway, I am not quite a cartoonist myself, but I made a simple way to make sight words much easier to remember than just memorizing the actual words like these below (These are actually just plain sheets of paper cutouts with handwritten words of most common sight words that I want to teach my son).

I would show these words initially, then one by one flip it and show the story of the word at the back.  

 and made to these (These drawings are drawn at the back of each sight word to look like actual flash cards - yes, no printing needed).  I will be uploading the flashcard I have made with the sight words for download soon on my blog.

These are the sketch drawings I made on each word.  Just make it simple drawings, then mark the letters with a dark colored pen for emphasis.

At the back of each sight word, you might be wondering what those things are and how were they created.  Well, they are simple stick drawings that I have placed on each letter to tell a story about the word.

ex. the word LITTLE.  The story would go like this: Look at the LITTLE (empahisis on this word) i and e, they are too LITTLE unlike L's and the T's!

Example, the word Little.  We have come up with a simple story about Little.  The giant twin L's and T's looks at Little i and e!  I would tell the story like this, "The word is Little! Look at the LITTLE (empahisis on this word) i and e, they are too LITTLE unlike L's and the T's!"

Some other sight words we practiced:

There! There goes the ball!

"Can - I can Read! (or look, N looks like a can) 

I have read that this kind of teaching sticks like velcro to the brain.  The process of being able to use the Left Brain (thru words/letter) then actually transferring the info to the right brain (thru interesting visuals) is very good memorization technique.  The brain processes this info better and gets them attached for easier future retrieval.  The same way we remember a brand by its icon (ex. the Golden Arches for McDonald's, or the simple check with Nike).

This has helped my son very much.  With this, he has memorized all 13 sight words in just one sitting and are doing more.  We didn't even bother sounding them out or even explaining the silent e or whatever.

There's one product that is really nice that you can buy online that is similar to this at Dianne Kraft: http://stores.diannecraft.org/Detail.bok?no=54

I love this method!  Try this and let me know if this has helped you in your teaching journey!

Woah! 1 year of being a twin mom

For twin moms, 1 year marks not only their twins' birthday but also their freedom (and memory) of their twin pregnancy and caring for twin infants.

1 year of freedom from that twin giagantous belly!, 1 year of no sleep I can now sleep at least 4 straight hours.  1 year of freedom from back pain, 1 year of freedom from fearful thoughts of a complicated twin labor or babies well-being.

Until now, I am breastfeeding Dashielle but Callista has stopped at 6 months.  I was too stressed that time that Callie runs out of milk.  My breasts felt like crazy milk factory during those months but great thing I was able to breastfeed both! literally, tandem breasfteeding!

I think, being blessed with twins simply mean one thing - twin moms (and dads) can handle it!

Now, they are all over the place.  Callista started walking 2 weeks after her birthday.  Dashielle is still scooting with her walker.  So, imagine this - Callie walks as if the entire house is hers, and Dashielle wheeling herself everywhere.  Major twin-proofinf the house!

Callie is fascinated with the electric plugs, lamps, electric cords and almost anything that involves pressing buttons.  Not to mention, picking up the tiny bits of whatever she could see on the floor straight to her mouth.  On the other side is Dashie, not yet a walker and balance is not that yet strong.  So, while doing a "plastic man" to stop Callista and shouting "Calliiiiieeee, stoppp!", all at the same time grabbing Dashie on your hand preventing her to fall flat on her face.  Add another 6 year old in the background asking never-ending questions about the stars, moons and whatever he can think of asking.

In a nutshell, twin moms are multi-tasker.  My eyes feels like Cookie Monster eyes!

I love being a mom!  Everyday is a blessed day! :D I am excited for the grand celebration soon! :D

What made things easier for my 6 year old to start reading

This made my entire homeschooling adventure days the most memorable of all - My 6 year old boy can now read! Hurrahhh!

There really is no such thing as a slow-learner or even the Big Moose (Archie Comics Character) guy if only learning blocks were identified early on.  Some kids, learn and memorize fast but are having a hard time in gross-motor.  Some can read early and read well but have problems with comprehension. While some, have auditory processing problems and could not even comprehend Rhymes, or letter sounds on words - which my son had.  So, you see not all minds are the same.  Some have learning blocks that needed to be trained.  My son, had it too but I see it as my challenge instead of his.  I want him to learn one thing - to love learning!  But to love it, he must unblock his reading challenge.

Isn't the worst thing any parent could experience is when a teacher or a principal calls on you just to tell you:

• "You're child is a slow-learner"
• "She is not reading (or catching up) at her grade-level"
• "He is Regressing!"
• "All of his classmates are doing well, but I'm sorry to say but your child seems to be having a hard time."
• "He can't even finish copy work and everyone else are already done!"

So you wonder, why my kid is acting this way? He looks fine to me when he's at home or with his peers. But, honestly, there is nothing wrong with your child so stop thinking that you have a slow or dyslexic child!  It's you! He simply needs you to teach him and focus off your problem-focused life to cope with whatever he is having a hard time on.  Parents who wonder, wonder too much about the problem instead of a solution that is readily available.  The teachers are not your child's problem solver - you are!  A simple 30 minutes a day on what your child is struggling on makes a lot of difference!

Honestly, it took me almost 6 months of direct teaching (with a proper homeschool curriculum) of at least 3 hours/day just to identify what is keeping my smart and amazing 6 year old from reading!

We did the usual phonics, alphabetic style of learning sounds then blending them.  Which we did for about 4-5 months but all he could do are sound out C-V-Cs (Bat and Sat... etc) but no blending at all which is really frustrating.

Then, upon doing a workbook Developing the Early Learner Series (Books 1-4) by Simone Bibeau, MA. Sp. Ed.  I found out that my 6 year old is struggling with an Auditory Processing which makes him harder to remember phonics and worse blending those sounds together.

He couldn't even figure out what sounds are heard when I say a word (ex. Bat = Baaaatt).  He knows all of the sounds of the alphabet because of the great stuff on Hooked on Phonics, Click N' Read, Starfall.com songs. But, all of these are left-brained focus.  My child is a right-brained learner with an auditory glitch. He was even having a hard time identifying rhymes (ex. Pail - Nail).

But, now what a lovely day! I have found the way to teach my challenged kiddo to process these sounds into words.  Training his brain to process info and store and retrieve data in a way that is easier for him!

My son is used to guess words from pictures.  So, first, I totally scrap all visual aids.  No words/pictures to look at.  Just listening, and listening to my voice which must be clear as crystal for him to hear.  I even would blindfold him at times just to make his focus on the hearing and not on anything else. He had a hard time on this activity.

We did this simple activity after he practiced the phonics, to relate the sound to writing and so we can also improve and touch a lot on spelling.  At first, he spelled B-O-L as Ball, but that is okay.  It means, he can start chopping off those sounds to form words.  I was delighted.

We did Rhymes for 1 week and started introducing the Jelly Bean Reading! Which I personally conceptualized based on different research I've read.  After 3-4 days, he can now read and blend those sounds very well!

I got an idea on how to do this from Candy Math Program - wherein Candies and treats which are kids favorites are used as actual manipulatives to teach kids about Math!  Click the link to download the free PDF.

Here's how we played the Jelly Bean Reading Game! I didn't plan on this game, it just came right out of my mind - for the love I have to make my son read!

Our Jelly Bean Reading Game!

I didn't do much effort on how it would look like. :P

1. Take out plain white sheets of paper (bond paper would do, just cut them into pieces)
2. Line up 3 or 4 blocks as the numbered block sheet for the phoneme sounds of each word you will be saying. *If your child is a non-reader but knows letter sounds but have a hard time blending them, you can start with 3. Progress to 4 or more when he is ready.  Putting 1,2,3,4 teaches your child to read from Left (1) to Right (3 or 4)
   
   
   
3. Draw a buzzer or find any buzzer that your child can use to ring when he's done. Make it fun!
4. Jelly Beans or any healthy treats/candies/crackers! Do this before a major meal.  They will eat them as an award!
5. For the game do a sample first, sound out the word "Tap, Taaaaapp"
6. Tell them to listen and place in candies to every sound they hear from the word said.  Ask them to place those sounds in order starting on the beginning sound to the last sound.  My kid, had a hard time at the middle sound, but later found out a way to figure it out more.
7. After they have lined up the sounds on the numbered block sheets, ask them to write those sounds to spell out on the lined-out blank (no numbers) sheet.
8. When they're done... ask them to press the buzzer!
9. When they did it correctly, praise them but before they eat it.  Ask them this, Can you eat the /B/ sound, eat the Last Sound, then eat the /A/ sound.  This way, they can recognize which sound is first, last, and middle as well as the phonemes.
10. Do 4-5 of this game and just add on tricks to challenge them.

The rice puffs are not too sweet, so it was for the consonants and the jelly beans for the vowels.

I had 3 and 4 phoneme game that we played just for  the day.  I got the words from the book we will later on read.
We read Fun Tales, tomorrow... Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss!

Since we finish school right before Lunch, I needed to get some of my twin girls' super flavorful Gerber Rice Puffs!
They are light and not too sweet for my little reader bunny!  Of course, he loves Jelly Beans.
Crackers would do great as well!

The resources below were very helpful for my struggling-reader-no-more little guy, which you can check out:

• Dianne Kraft, MA, CNHP - I love her research.  It's very up-to-date and very kid and mom friendly.  Learned about how to teach a right brain child and even how to teach these kids in a way that they will have fun.
• Earobics - A great tool for focus and auditory processing.  Try their online games for kids! They are awesome
• Phonemes - You will have to master this.
• Phonemic Awareness Activites - Download them and check it out! Great resource!

My struggling reader

I am frustrated and so is my 6 year old when we do Alphabetic Reading.  When he attended a multiple intelligence school during his nursery and kindergarten, his teacher's comment was "he is probably regressing".  I cannot accept it, I was worried.  I know he was doing well at 2 years old, knows all the letters, shapes and was very smart.

Just suddenly, when I heard those words and also saw his progress in school.  I knew there has got to be a way for him to catch up.  I don't care if he's not yet reading at his age, or if if I put his level a year down.  What is important is that he would love to learn and discover.

That started my Homeschooling with him.  I pulled him off school and started research on the best homeschool curriculum for him.  I don't like the structured, or pacing series.  He is only 5 that time, I just wanted him to have fun.  That's where I found out about a literature-based curriculum called Sonlight.  No pressure, 1 letter sound per week and he did very well.

All subjects of Science, Math, Read-alouds, Social Studies were all great.  But, handwriting and reading was a dreaded subject for the both of us.

I bought and researched on the best phonics system available.  Looking for a very good reading teacher.  But, really nothing helps.  At 6, he is having a hard time with rhymes.  He just doesn't seem to understand anything at all.  He was looking at patterns as if words are mazes or patterns in math which he's very good at.

So, I crossed path at Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness.  Finally, it has a pattern to follow.  Practicing only different phonemes and no alphabetic way (sight) to understand.  It is being used also by Orto-Gillingham approach.

I love the results and will be blogging on his progress.  We started to read Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss which is full of simple rhymes.  As well as lots of Sesame Street Videos of his favorite Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster.  This is a break for us.  He's catching on.

I was about to believe that he is Dyslexic.  He has lots of reversed letters and often reverses B to D, P and T, W and M.  But, when I cross upon a site, it said Dyslexia isn't a disease it could be corrected.  I'm seeing it already and I'm happy now and so is my son.

Today, there are no crying bouts and we ended school with a big reward - a big, giant, hug!

If you have a struggling reader, you can try these links:

• http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/322045/lesson_plan_phonemic_awareness_say.html?cat=4
• http://www.lessonsense.com/general/phonemic-awareness.html
• http://www.childrenlearningreading.com/
• http://www.remediationplus.com/
• http://www.orton-gillingham.com/

There is no such thing as slow learner, what these kids need is you - their parent! They need you to help them and understand that we have a great big deal of job to teach them cope in life.

I thank the Lord for giving me the best children in the world and I love them.  I would do everything to help them achieve and see their potential for I know the Lord have great plans for them.

Me, According to My Son

I had this random question I asked my 6 year old son.  He had a hard time answering them.  You can try to do this with your child and you'll be amazed at what they will say about you.

He just turned 6 and I'm really not expecting some biggie answers but I love the thought that he knows he is loved by me.

I got this from this post: http://babblingsofamommy.blogspot.com/2010/12/me-according-to-my-daughter.html

How do you see, mommy? - Always on your laptop! (Goodness! I think I should start to get my own office). :)

What is something I always say to you?
I love you.

What makes me happy?
Me

How do I make you laugh?
When you tell jokes.

What do you think I was like as a child?
Like me.

How old am I?
19 (haha! I love my Ice)

How tall am I?
As tall as our cabinet

What is my favorite thing to do?

Love me and hug me.

What do I do when you are not around?
Love me still.

If I become famous, what will it be for?
Because you are very good in business. (love this!)

What am I really good at?
Kissing and hugging me.

What am I not really good at?
Nothing. (I'm the SuperMommy!)

What is my job?
Make tutus

What is my favorite food?
Pork (Oh my!)

If I were a cartoon character, who would I be?

The grandma in Meet the Robinson's (The one who makes cookies)

How do you know that I love you?
You kiss me and hug me all the time.

Where is my favorite place to go?
Go to SM or malls and just look for stuff in there that takes sooo sooo sooo long.

What is one thing you wish you could change about me?
Nothing. I just want you to be you.

What would I do with a million dollars?
Put it in a bank and keep it there.

What do you wish you could go and do with me?
Sit on a rocking chair together while you hug and tell me stories all day long.

What do I help you with?
My blocks.

Mom's special magic palms - Infant/Child Massage

The most stressful days a mom could ever have are when her child is sick.  Seeing your child not acting his usual happy, active days would be the most grueling experience a mom could ever feel.

But, what I know best are my most natural loving asset - my bare hands.  Hands that care and produce miracles.  This is the main reason I discourage any parent to use their hands to discipline or spank a child.  Because, hands are for loving and nurturing and God gave moms the  power to ease her child's pain through her hands by hugging or a loving touch by massages.

I have read a lot about infant massages. It has been a great sleeping potion for my kids especially those cranky moments when they were still babies.  It's like a shot of sleeping capsules at night and a wonderful fever busting relaxing moment during those nasty days of colds or flu-like symptoms.

Just this afternoon, my 6 year old son suddenly had a fever.  It was almost spontaneous for anyone to give medicines to lower a fever, but I know it would be a lot better to relax my son first, and give him a nice short "no pressure" massage.

My son is used to massages, I've been doing this since he's a month old.  Where I would occasionally (at least 3x a week) give him an after bath short massages using Epoch Baby Ylang Ylang Massage (Which, I couldn't get anymore here locally).  The moment I signal my open hands to him (our sign of massage), he'd already look at me and almost agreeing with delight, waiting for a good rub.

Naturally, nothing is more precious to me but to see my magic palms become a loving moment to my son.  I asked him if he wants a massage, he said yes.  I've prepped the room to be very calming and relaxing for him and I took the Human Heart Nature Eucalyptus Massage Oil and applied it on my palms.  I love this product, it doesn't contain any harmful chemicals like petroleum or mineral oil.  I also love the mild scent.

Human Heart Nature - Organic Eucalyptus Massage Oil  is the perfect massage oil I've used for my baby massages

Started with his back, with nice circling "NO PRESSURE" massaging strokes.  Then, his legs and toes, Palms and fingers, then finally his head and face.  Areas they love would be the earlobes, hair/head, feet.

A lil' of it goes a looong way!

After a few minutes of massages and a nice soothing Eucalyptus oil, my little boy falls asleep at 6PM and woke up with an unforgettable massage from mommy.  So memorable, that he told his dad my massages killed the bad guys inside his body.

This is my reward - my son's restful sleep only my hands could give.

Massaging kids should be relaxing.  No pressure at all, it is not work.  They have to allow you to massage them, if they don't seem to like it - don't or stop.  If you are tired and you feel it is just a necessity to do it for whatever reason, then don't do it.  Massages for kids should be pressure-free.  From the time you spend with them, to the time your hands touch them, up to the time you actually massage their skin.  There should be no pressure on mommy and child.

Love the moment and you will savour it.  See it as tedious and stressful or unnecessary - then yes, it will be.  But, for what I've experienced with my children, it is rewarding and very therapeutic for them and especially for me.

There is no trick to a good massage, just light, loving touches.  You would know it's good when you see that they're liking it too.  The only thing that will be hard is when they all want you to massage them all at the same time.  Well, gotta go... my little Callista needs one in a while.

If you want to learn how to do some simple baby massages, you can follow this link:

• http://www.parents.com/baby/care/newborn/how-to-massage-baby/
• http://www.childbirthsolutions.com/articles/postpartum/infantmassage/index.php
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ4HPREfBgo

A creative way to make kids write their own story

Part of our Language Arts Curriculum is story elaboration.  We have done several of this, but this story that Ice made is extra different, extraordinarily creative.

Part of the activity is to come up with a "boring" story then will let the kid think of ways to describe and/or elaborate on it.  First, I'd let him draw the scenes on his imagination notebook (drawing book), then I'll be his scribe.  Being a scribe means, I will just write down his story word per word.  I will not even suggest words or phrases but will just guide him as to what should go next after each part of the story (ex. what's next, then what happened?, which part of the house? etc).

So our story started with:

"Pat built a house. The house collapsed."

Ice laughed and said it was boring.  The reaction I expected to conjure some creative ideas from him.  He started to draw the scenes and I, the scribe wrote down my little writer's story.  Here's what he came up with.  He's only 5, by the way.  So please excuse the grammar as I did not edit it so that soon when we review his story again, he'll be the one who will improve the story himself.  Which we'll do in our future seatworks.

Pat Built a House Being Destroyed
By: Ice

One day, there's a man named Pat and he wants a new home.  He doesn't want his old home anymore because his old house looks like our neighbor's house. :D  Then, he made his new home because he's good at making houses now.

Pat built his house made of bricks.  He also got a globe on top.  He got six floors of bricks.  It looks like a brick house because it is very nice and it has triangle windows so he can see what's down there.

One day, there's a tidal wave and destroyed the house.  Pat became a little bit sad.  He built another house in the ocean so no tidal wave can hit it because he can drive it with a steering wheel.  There's an alarm on it which will turn on when there's a tidal wave coming like "THERE'S A WAVE COMING! THERE'S A WAVE COMING! NING, NING, NING, WAAH, WAHH!!!"  Then, the steering wheel that is shaped like a globe will turn the house.

The end.

Erin et Vivien - Tutus for your sweet lil' princess!

When I was a little girl I never really liked dolls, I looked and acted very boyish. But, there were times that I wanted to wear girly girl clothes too that I once tried to fit myself in my 4T sized dress when I was 7. Even how short and terribly unconfomfortable it was, I just loved that moment where I could look like Annie with the short (panties-showing-kind) of dress.  I played with it, danced with it and I just felt like a real graceful little girl.

I feel that little girls can be little girly girls until the time they start to really decide for their own fashion statement.  Because, deep inside every little girl wants to freely bounce, dance, twirl, run, and pretend to be the most graceful little lady as she plays.

Erin et Vivien is my new baby.  It's customizable up to 4 colors and fits infants from 0-8 years old (we can also do a bigger size for bigger kids or even adults).


Our collection:

Classic Colors:
Pink Dust - Pink colors
Berry Bush - Lilac / Lavander
Blue Powder - Blue and Turquiose
Emerald Belle - Green and Yellow
Lemon Zing - Sunny Yellow
Punk Baby - Hot Pink

Color Collection:
Callista
Dashielle
Kaiea
Lia
Danielle

Other colors, photos to be uploaded:
Pink Punkstar - Hot Pink + Black + Ivory
Citrusy - Orange + Lime + Yellow
Rainbow Spark - Turquiose + Hot Pink + Yellow + Violet

Or you can send us max of 4 colors you like.

Here's the sizing chart:


XS (0-6 months) - 4" Length for 12-14" waist
S (6-12 months) - 7" Length for 15-16" waist
M (12-24 months) - 8" Length for 17" waist
L (3T-4T) - 10" Length for 18-19" waist
XL (5T - 8T) - 12" Length for 19-21" waist

They are also customizable!!!

Choose from a variety of colors (up to 4).  Send us an email at miamissary@yahoo.com or text me at 0917-7944525 (no calls, please!) with the following info:


Name:

Address:

Mobile No.:

Land Line:

Color (max of 4):

Size:

Add Embellishments? (add P100):

Kid's age:

Qty:

Callista

Lia

Let us know your questions and please be patient as we're still cooking up great tutus and other girly stuff for you and your lil' one!

Danielle

Dashielle

Kaiea