Hello there dear mommies! Get ready to do some serious shopping because the SM Baby Company Grand Baby Fair is back!! The fair will open on Jan. 27 and will be on until Jan. 29.

I wrote about my first SM Baby Company Grand Baby Fair Experience in this post It’s a great fair to go to when you want to shop for supplies for your kids. All the major brands that SM’s Baby Company carries are in the expo and most of their stuff are all on sale!!  Our favorite mompreneur-owned brands such as Next9 and Indigo Baby have booths there too! I highly suggest that you drop by Next9 and look for ubermom Jen. If you want to learn about baby wearing or cloth diapers Jen is THE mom to ask! You can also scope out new things and new brands for your kids and baby at the fair.I had a lot of “oooh meron pala nito” moments while I was at the Megatrade Hall.If you’re building your baptismal registry or birthday registry for your kid you’ll get great ideas from this event as well. As for me,  I want to buy DW some stainless steel cups and utensils to replace his old, BPA-free ones that are too small for him already.

I hope the payment system is more organized this time around. I posted pics of the big long line that snaked through the entire hall at the last event. There were a lot of preggy moms waiting in line with their ever patient husbands. I saw how tired they were already but their baskets and carts were filled with supplies for their new baby already!

Oh and mommies, if your purchases reach Php 2,000 you can take home this swag bag:

This bag is filled with goodies and samples from Pampers, Johnsons’ Baby, Avent, Playtex, Enfant and a lot more!

Giveaway Alert!: SM Baby Company gave me a swag bag and I want to give this to you my awesome fellow mommies! If you’re based in Metro Manila, just head on over to this blog’s FB page here and like the pic of the swag bag that I just uploaded It’ll be a quick giveaway and it will end on Jan. 29. I will ship the bag to you via JRS Express. I will pick the winner via raffle and will announce it on the FB page. Good luck guys and happy shopping!!

Quirks Marketing, the Company which is the exclusive distributor of Dwell Studio Home and Dwell Studio Baby, OBaby, Kaboost and Baby Plus in the Philippines will be holding a warehouse sale on Nov. 12! Get your Christmas Shopping on!

Our little brood went to Toys R’ Us to look for toys for an upcoming trip to the beach!

After picking up a couple of toy boats I went around to take more pictures and saw this:

Rubbabu toys! I picked up one and it was velvety, really light, soft and super squishy! And then I squeezed. And squeezed. I did not want to let go!!! One of the staff members of Toys R’ Us told me that the product is made of natural foam and is safe for kids. The material is also washable.

I went to the Rubbabu website and yep, the product is made of natural rubber foam, which has inherent anti-microbial properties. Because it’s natural, the products don’t need softeners and are therefore free from phthalates (learn more about phthalates here)

It helps that the designs and the colors are so adorable too.

They are however expensive. Their small toy truck is about Php 300 already although I already expected this because I know that the production processes of safe toys and products are different from the norm. In our family, toys like these are indeed worth the price because these toys are well made in addition to being safe. These toys however are bought only for special occasions and as a cute reward or a gift for a toddler. As an adult though these toys make for really cute stress balls haha

Here are my personal picks:

The Alphabet Set (around Php2,990)

Train Set (around Php1,500)

Dune Buggy (Around Php 795)

Tools (About Php 1,000)

Check out Rubbabu Toys at all Toys R’ Us branches!

Disclosure: I was given gift checks by Robinson’s Galleria and Toys R’ Us in exchange for the coverage. This arrangement however did not dictate the content of this post. The items I bought at Toys R’ Us are also bought with my own money.