When DW was sick a few months back, I cooked up these fried apples so that he’d get a sweet treat after his breakfast. DW had a cold then and was feeling miserable (and so were BDW and I) and so I thought that an extra special dessert was needed to lift our weary selves up.

It’s a simple recipe that you  could also do as a side dish I guess — I really can’t say much about main dishes as my cooking repertoire only consists of banana-raisin pancakes and grilled cheese sandwiches haha.

My good friend Steph shared with me her recipe for fried apples.  I didn’t use any measurements I just adjusted as I went on with the “cooking”

Ingredients: For the bowl of fried apples above, I used around two to three medium-sized apples cut into thick wedges.

You’ll also need butter, cinnamon and/or nutmeg and brown sugar.

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Mothercare is one of those stores that I always have to enter even if I don’t need to buy anything for DW. It’s just nice to go around and window shop. Well one day while at the Trinoma branch, BDW, DW and I went to Mothercare because the store was on sale and bought DW some sandals.

We also saw these outfits!!! Ang kulit!!!

Postman Pat

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We spent one weekend earlier this Summer at the Intercontinental Hotel Manila. They have an ongoing promo there called the I-Hop where you “hop” from one buffet to to the next. They have three buffets at the hotel and one of them is at Prince Albert where we stuffed ourselves with prime rib. The promo also includes buffet merienda and free use of the pool. We took this deal further because we booked a room and spent two days eating and swimming. Totally worth the price AND the calories

And these two could have stayed in the pool the whole time. DW loved it!

The staff at the hotel are really friendly, courteous and accommodating especially with DW! To know more about I-Hop, you can visit Manila Reviews’ post of the promo  here.

I just got a text from my mom that DW’s running a fever again He had one last weekend and this week was pretty rough with DW waking up almost every hour at night. He’s teething, has a slight cold and is still coughing a bit.  We’re going to take him to the doctor tomorrow and so Expo Kid is definitely out.

A fever is a symptom but I hope  it’s just something brought on by this terrible heat we’re all experiencing or something related to his teething.  It’s hard when DW’s sick, he doesn’t eat as much and refuses milk, sometimes only finishing one full bottle in  day. Hay. Hold on little boy.

teary-eyed from the sniffles last weekend. hay.

Hello hello! I am turbo blogging yes I am haha I’m rushing DW’s supplier ratings because well one, it’s been one month since DW’s birthday celebration and it’s a N@Wie (newlyweds@work member) tradition to do supplier ratings  as soon as possble to keep the planning stories ‘fresh’ so to speak. One other thing is that on Friday, I’m doing a giveway and nope it’s not the Kid Expo tickets just yet! I’ll give you two hints, it’s purple and it’s not a dinosaur (mahirap i-LBC si Barney!)

Now on to Ging Ging is a  N@Wie favorite and has always topped the list for kiddie photographers. I’ve been to several online parenting forums too and Ging’s name is always mentioned when moms are looking for good photographers to work with.

We worked with Ging and her sister Pie during DW’s baptism. Ging is quiet and unobtrusive and the pics that we got for DW’s baptism are wonderful. Although we posed for family portraits, the candid shots are priceless.  Ging was the first vendor I booked for DW’s birthday. I patiently waited to get over the 6 month period she had for booking events (you can’t book 6 months before your event, too early). As soon as that period was up. Hala! Text ako agad haha

We love our family portraits, most especially because DW was smiling in almost all of them. (I lifted these from Ging’s blog as I wanted the watermarks to show)

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