Early morning shopping

Since it was already way past my bedtime last night, there wasn't much on the tv except for infomercials. Last night it was about the Your Baby Can Read Dvds. It really got me watching because they were showing all these  videos of babies and toddlers reading. I saw this infomercial before pa, while we were still in Manila and I wanted to get one sana for Nix but it was expensive. Last night I was thinking of getting it so I googled their website here in Oz and it was still expensive, $299! So I figured there is probably an alternative to teaching my baby to read that I could afford and I came upon this

from hooked on phonics.com

Since I'm not sure if they deliver outside US, I went to Amazon and saw they had this, yehey! So I ordered the Learn to Read Pre-K complete set plus this

It was my first time to order from Amazon so I'm hoping it will turn out okay and we'll receive the package as scheduled which is from end of June at the earliest (priority shipping was too expensive already so have to wait a bit I guess).  So excited:)

Cheesecake

I want some! I think I will try to make one! After making Nix' cake, I feel like I can do anything haha. We'll in a way its more cost effective and definitely more rewarding for me to just even attempt to make one. A slice would be like $6, mahal diba. Eh if I buy the ingredients, for just a few dollars more, I will (hopefully) have one whole cheesecake. Winner! Now if I could just find a good cheesecake recipe. Will google my way again or maybe any of you care to share your winner cheesecake recipe would sure appreciate it:)

me want!!!!!

Nix is 3!

Our celebration was a quiet one today compared to her other birthdays but the gratitude and joy is the same. I managed to come up with a cake and she enjoyed blowing out the candle, yey! As I was assembling it last night I thought it might not work, but I really wanted to make this cake for her, no matter how simple or "rustic" looking it might turn out to be:) It's a single layer chocolate cake with ganache and marsmallow fondant. Topper was a mini bear I got from Kmart:)

taste test:)

one more piece please?:)

She likes it, yey!

We love you Nix, may God continue to bless you and help you grow into a healthy, happy and loving girl.Hug!

Coming together

I am attempting to make my first birthday cake ever and so far so good. I've made the cake, the custard filling and the ganache. Oh I made marshmallow fondant too. Google and you tube proved to be really helpful in this mini project. As well as my hubby who mightily mixed and kneaded our practice fondant haha:) Sana masarap, sana maganda, sana Nix likes it. Will post pics soon!
Have a good Monday everyone!

Toysrus Find

Remember I posted a few days ago about the toy kitchen I wanted for Nix? Well we found the perfect alternative at Toysrus. And it was even on special, sweet:)

The stove lights up and it makes funky sounds. The "blender" works as well. Sana may ganito nung bata ako, I would have loooooved it! Well Im happy our baby will get to enjoy it:)
Hope you all have a lovely weekend ahead!