Update on the babies

For this Love Thursday post, I'm revisiting an earlier entry: Our Venus flytrap plants. This is what they looked like on the 1st of May:

And here are the babies now. Haven't they grown? The leaves don't look so heart-shaped anymore, and the traps are starting to look mean and scary-ass hungry. At this point, I'm not sure what to do with them... should I catch them some flies? Or let them do it on their own (it's not like our house is infested by insects...)? I feel like a mother of an adolescent.



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My boys

Today I grabbed my new macro lens and tried my hand at snapping some portraits of Alfie and the boys out on the playground. I experimented with various settings and ended up taking 84 photos in about an hour.

Some of them were completely outrageous:


But I think I managed to capture some really nice moments today.

I'm still not convinced I know what I'm doing. But it's a start.

Moms Tshirt giveaway

Calling all you moms out there! Who wants a free shirt? Especially a free shirt that tells the whole world just how much you love being a mom? Awww, come on, you know you do..... and all you have to do is enter my giveaway here...

My birthday present

Look at what I got for my birthday! No, not these yummy Filipino snacks from my childhood days (although this is a rare treat, since my mother just arrived from Manila and brought them with her). I'm talking about the lens I used to take the photo.


Behold my new macro lens, the one I've wanted since I first found out what a macro lens is. It's not a high-end lens by any means, but I've read some good reviews and I'm convinced it's a good macro lens for a beginner like me. I'm looking forward to taking lots of closeups of food, babies, flowers and the like. With a bit of practice and luck, hopefully someday the Filipino snack photos I take will look more like these.

Shoes, shoes and more shoes

When I saw this week's Photo Hunter's theme, I had a sense of deja vu, and I was right -- this is the second Photo Hunt with a shoe theme! Here is the photo I chose last year:

And here is the subject of another shoe-related post I did last year:

And for this year's shoe theme, here is 3Po in his tap shoes, all ready to do the shuffle step:


Last but not least, here are The Pea's current favorite shoes. If only they made these sparkly pink-and-brown confections in grownup sizes
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How many miles did you drive this week?

With gas being so expensive these days, I thought I'd start keeping more careful track of how far I drive. The answer shocked me: I drove over 200 miles last week! Mind you, I'm a stay-at-home parent, so how in hell did I rack up so many miles? Here's how:

Going grocery shopping (twice)
Taking kids to school
Taking kids to ice skating lessons
Taking kids to soccer lessons
Taking kids to dance lessons

So, how many miles did you drive this week?

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Somebody loves me

She used her most prized stickers, the best and most precious of her collection. 'Nuff said.

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What a great great-grandmother!

God bless grandmothers! Especially grandmothers who knit and sew. When our kids were born, Alfie's mother got her knitting needles busy; the resulting baby blankets and sweaters were the envy of all my friends.

Now The Pea has these American Girl dolls, and like the great grandmother (and technically, she is the dolls' great-grandmother) that she is, she has knitted some bedding for them. The new blankets go perfectly with the bunk bed that Alfie made for her out of the scrap wood lying around the garage. I think the whole ensemble is as cute as anything you could get from a store! The dolls certainly like it, and so does The Pea.

Sweets to the sweet

Who doesn't love candy? We don't have any candy in the house right now, so I ransacked our photo archives and came up with a collection of some of the sweetest things in my life:

Our holiday gingerbread house.

Ice cream cones with candy sprinkles, the more the merrier!

This is the only kind of candy corn that I like.

What do you suppose he's been eating??

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Just call them twinkletoes

3Po and CleanBoy finished off their spring tap/ballet class with a special tap performance set to "Take a Little One Step" from the musical No, No Nanette. The class actually danced it without any coaching from the teacher. Also, the mirror was behind them, so they couldn't copy any of their classmates. At least, not without turning their heads and looking around, which is what most of them did. Which made it even cuter.