Wifely Steps

Get your play on! PLAY PILPINAS is the very first international play festival. It encourages everyone to promote and enrich playtime as part of kids’ growth, development and learning. Because PLAY=FUN, you can expect this festival to be a lot of fun for both kids and parents! WANT WORKSHOPS? We’ve got international speakers from around [...]

Going out with the toddler always involves a juggle of bags. There’s his Lightning McQueen backpack, which holds his extra clothes, some toys, wipes and diapers. There’s his Lego lunchbox, which holds his water, milk and snacks. Then there’s the Mommy bag — MY bag, which is more like a baby bag. I emptied out [...]

Whenever the toddler meets someone for the first time, he lifts his shirt and shows his belly button. I’d try pulling down his shirt, but he’d insist on pulling it up and showing his belly button again. Then he’ll go on and play. Why, oh why, does my 2 year old keep doing this? I [...]

If you stay at home too long, you can go cuckoo. Cabin fever, it’s called. If you also do a lot of things repeatedly such as watching Kung Fu Panda or washing poop, you can go a little crazy. Then there’s Elmo everyday. What do you call that? Mommy Madness? Mommy Mania? Whatever it’s called, [...]

I’ve talked about baby clutter before so pardon me if I’ll talk about it again. My friends have told me to just chill when it comes to baby clutter. Some days the little boy throws his cars and blocks around and I’m like, “Oh yeah I’m a chill Mom, I’ll fix it later.” Then there [...]

“Welcome to the Milk Mama Diaries Carnival (August). For this month, we join the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action in its “Talk to Me!” theme where participants will share personal experiences, insights or recommendations in communicating breastfeeding intentions and goals to their support system. Please scroll down to the end of this post and check [...]

When you’ve got a little boy at home, there’s always a ball somewhere around the house. There’s a soccer ball by the basketball hoop, and a basketball in the soccer goal. We try to round up the balls in one corner everyday, and everyday they end up all over the house. I’ve sat on a [...]

What can you do with crib comforters when baby’s outgrown his crib? Turn them into your own chair comforters. This has GOT to me by favorite area at home. Right smack in front of the computer. Seated on a cozy, cozy, cozy baby comforter. Most crib comforters are the perfect size for an office chair. [...]

Since the toddler has a fondness for drawing on floors, I thought it was a good idea to encourage this. Crayons on the floor tiles?!? No, no, no, that’s not what I meant. Manila paper on the floor tiles, yes, yes, yes! Gotta protect that terra cotta floor. I spread out the paper on the [...]

Butter biscuits for your toddler? Why not? If he’s as picky as my little one, biscuits are a big meal miracle. If they’re butter ANIMAL biscuits, even better. This got the approval of Sir Timmy the Finicky. The two of us were checking out the food aisle at Marks & Spencer, and this caught our [...]