Mother's Day

This mother's day has a lot of festive elements in it! Thanks to the cup cakes and cake that I won from Deana and Faye.( thanks Makciks!)
Too bad I can't celebrate it with my Mom or Mil .

Indy is already prepare to celebrate Mother's Day from a week before. She is making a gift for me at school. But on Friday (9th May) she missed the school because of coughing. So she rested at home. I told her that the teacher will give the mother's day gift that she made today to her , but since she is at home so I think the teacher will give it to her on Monday. But this little girl, had an idea what to do about it. She wanted to give me a surprise ( she got that from her father) so without my knowledge , she asked our maid, Alma, to take her gift from her teacher, when Alma go and pick up Maya.

So when Maya arrived home, she got some craft made for me ( uhm the teacher made it actually) and then in 10 minutes, she destroyed it!!! :D. And then Indy showed up and gave me the pink beads bracelet! I was surprise because she manage to get it from the teacher. She said I asked Mbak Alma to take it from my teacher. So I can give it to you today. And she also got surprise because her teacher not only passed the bracelet to Alma but also her homework books! LOL...and of course Indy complaint, she said : I only asked Mbak to take the bracelet, I never asked the take my homeworks! ahah lazy girl...


Then these surprises arrived on Saturday morning :

Super yummylicious carrot cheese cake. I share 1/4 of it to my friend. And it is so yummy

see the cupcakes? Isn't it cute? It has handbag!!!!yipeee and flipflops too!

The cupcakes and cake arrived in the A.M and then Celine arrived to pick her CD. And I was so excited and chat a bit and forget to pass Deana's CD! LOL. The delivery guy went off already ( so Deana, blame it on Celine! kekekekeke)

Then My dh and Indy said they going somewhere for a while . I knew they are up to something. Indy said she wanted to eat pasta carbonara so papa needs to buy the ingredients! . So off they went and come back 30 minutes later with this for me:

A carnation flowers are specially for mothers. I love the colors that my dh and Indy pick ( or the florist) baby blue, pink and purple....pretty!

And my dh also bought this for our maid :

So the pasta carbonara was just an excuse to went out and bought flowers! Actually I kind a knew it!

Oh and Maya loves the flowery decoration so much. And she picked all the decorations from the cupcakes , I must hide it from her! Look at her :

"I love this cupcakes. yum yum"

"it taste soooo good! I hope everyday is mother's day!"

Her second cupcakes here
" this lil flowers went to the market, this lil flower stayed a home....."

" and this lil flower went to my mouth"

And this is the little miss Bag Snatcher!!!!

I knew she will pick the bag! I knew it , I knew it , I knew it!
That suppose to be mine, you know!!!

This is just an extra photo, when I and Indy dined at The Mediterranean Tanjung Aru the night before.

Girl's day out

Now a days girls are much more vain. Like my lil girl , she loves to play make up, do nail coloring, bring bags, wear hair accessories .

Blame it to the Kimora's life in fab lane show that I wacthed , where there was an episode where the girls went to children spa in Hollywood , LA. They had a chocolate mask, then did their nails .
So Indy been asking me many times to have a children spa, and I said , there is no children spa here.

She's been playing this game lately. So she is all about nails and manicure now.
And she is not even 6!

I think I got to be blamed as well, as I love manicure, pedicure my self. I always try to get my toes to be painted nicely , as I think it compliment my feet ,specially if I wear those open toes shoes or sandals.
I love nail colors so much and I remember I started to painted my nails , when I was 15 years old.( which to me now ,it's seem way to late ,compare to the girls now a days). And I am always the Aunt that my nieces love to play make up, dress up, do nails with.

I just found a great nail saloon in KK, Sunday pro nail, in Karamunsing Komplex by accident.
While , we were suppose to go out to do shoes hunting , we were ended up in this salon, did relaxing pedicure and foot scrub and we even had the same colors on our toes!
Me and her plan to do more nails session, I want to do nail extension , so I will have a nice nails for my BIL's wedding in Italy . Hopefully la will still nice by the time I reach there! :)
Oh and also want to have fresh pedicure before that.

Ok back to topic, since today is a PH, and I think I need to spent some more time with Indy alone, without Maya. I took her to CBTL to have brunch and then I promised her to bring her to manicurist.

Before saloon session

I was thinking to do my toes ( express pedicure this time will do) But too bad it was closed. So we looked around for other saloon but the other were mostly hairdressing saloon with manicure service, and it's quite crowded . I prefer a salon that only do mani/pedi only.

I was thinking to go to City Mall, but it's hard to get taxi to go home from there. So I told Indy, we try to go to the saloon nearby home. Where she cut her hair normally and I also did my nails there sometimes , just for touch up. And I also told her to cut her hair a little bit. She wants a long Barbie's hair, and I said NO WAY. She must keep her hair at shoulder length, I said.

So....off we go and, YES it was open! But it was very crowded . I think most people go to saloon on PH or weekend. So we must wait about 20 minutes and Indy practiced her reading much to my amusement . I didn't even know that she kept a book and a pencil in her bag. Finally the lady called her , it was her turn to cut her hair, I forgot to take the picture this time.

She took along a book and pencil, Tried to recognize and read some words.

Squeezed in the crowded saloon, mama monster's legs in the background .

Then , we still must wait another 10 minutes before the lady who does the manicure can do Indy's nails. Since the small saloon was full, so Indy did her nail in the waiting area. When the lady asked her to choose the colors, WOW, she was beaming ear to ear, and she got a hard time to decide!
She said she wanted peach, then change to light purple, then the lady suggested a cotton candy pink and she refused it at the first place, she said : "no that is too bright. I cant use that, later my teacher will see it" ( haha...she knows that she is not suppose to wear nail colors to school)But I said if you choose the lighter colors, it won't show , because it is too light. So at the end she picked the cotton candy pink. And I asked the lady to do nail art also. A simple nail art will do.

" Oh Mamma, I couldn't believe I am having a manicure!"
( we were in the waiting area)

She was too scare to move and breath I think!

So she got a cotton candy pink in her nail and white and pink flower on it.
Pretty. And she said she wants to do again before we go to Italy and she wants a heart shapes next time.

Here was when the lady to the flowers painting.

And I just paid RM 6 for her hair cut and RM 8 for the manicure! LOL quite a bargain right!
If I bring her to the nice manicurist sure it will be much more expensive, so that one let Mama do! For a 5 going to be 6 years old girl, a RM 8 manicure will do just fine!

TA DAAAAAA.......

I am thinking it is not nice to spoil our children like this, I know some moms are very strict about this, but I think once in a while , it will not do harm ( is it?) I don't want my girl's to grow up too fast, but I also don't want them to think that their mom is boring, I want to be her friend but I also must make a line that, whatever happen , I am still your mother, and you must listen to me at the same time, I want her to understand that we can have fun together but a mother is still a mother. And yes...mother makes the rules .

My hubby is more on the traditional side, he won't allow his girls to do anything into fashion and make up things. He said , no one are going to colored their hair until they are 16 years old.( And I am the one who think : WHAT? 16? so long? LOL.... c'mon my niece colored her hair at the age of 12) As long as it doesn't go overboard I think that will be ok . He doesn't allow the girls to have ears piercing either!
But my MIL is the FUN Grandma, she is the one who bought most of Indy's handbags, make up sets, dresses, and all the fashion accessories ! So my dh can't blame me alone on that thing!

Cheers to all fashionista from this ex-fashionista