My Two Girls – All About Zara and Zaria

And…. Here are the winner for the last Barbie Giveaway Contest.

I have the winner list for the Barbie Design And Dress Studio!

They are *drum roll* :

Yan
MK Mummy
Sians

All 3 of you will be getting a Barbie Design And Dress Studio set just like this.

Here are their comments :

Congratulations once again to the above winners. Kindly email your name, contact number and mailing address to winx@gocomm.com.my for prizes delivery purposes. And have fun with your Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style set!

Hopefully in future, there’ll be more Giveaways on my site.

Over dinner, Zara picked up a stray rice grain.
Zara : Do you know it looks like maggot?
Me : Every rice grain came from the sweat of the farmer, you know.
Zaria (put down her spoon) : What? I’m eating farmer’s sweat?
o.O”
Me : It’s a figure of speech Mei. The farmer has to work very hard and under hot sun to plant rice.
Zara : So, farmers use a lot of sun block?
o.O”
Me : I don’t think they want to spend money on sun block, because they are not so rich.
Zara : Maybe you should go and donate some sun block to the farmers.
o.O”

Hubs had asked Zaria not to eat one of the jelly stick that Zara brought back from her school party, telling her all the artificial colouring/sweetener that it contained etc… She didn’t listen and had it anyway.
Zaria : Mummy, I think I’m going to die?
Me : Why?
Zaria : Because I ate the jelly stick.
Me : You ate it? I thought your daddy already told you not to eat it? Why didn’t you listen to him?
Zaria : Because I don’t want jiejie to be angry with me. After she came back and said, “why you didn’t eat the jelly I gave you? I don’t want to friend you anymore” (blame her sister some more o.O )
Me : Your jiejie won’t be angry.
Zaria : Now tell me, what am I supposed to do?
Me : Take some vegetable will help.
Zaria : It won’t help. I need a chemical stronger than that. If I die, who’s going to make you cards? Who’s going to make you laugh? I’m the joker in the house, who will do tricks which you’d never seen before?. … I want to live. If I die, I won’t be able to do the choral speaking in the school on Monday. My school will be very quiet I’m a chatter box in school. What I take to get rid of the poison?
….. she went on and on…..
And then she drew this.

And you would think she would not eat any more of the jelly? The following day, she told me, “I think eating a little will not make me die” Before I could say anything, I saw her taking a small bite from another stick of Jelly, and then thew the remainder in the bin. o.O”

As a rule in the house, the girls have to either do a page of writing (on any topic) or do some worksheet to earn themselves time on the iPad.

Most of the time, Zaria chooses to write, and after a while, she knows how to take the easy way out. Check out her writing below.

Listing her family members’ names.

Listing our birthdays.

Listing our birthstones.

And improved further on the same topic.

And the latest, writing about our characters.

When I told her, “How can you always write about my family this, my family that?”
Her reply, “What do you want me to write? Five hundred lines is it?”

o.O”

**GIVEAWAY CONTEST IS CLOSED**

This is the last giveaway contest from Barbie on my site!

Here is a set which your child can style Barbie’s hair, and give her a hair cut.

Barbie is giving away THREE SETS of Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style to THREE of my readers.

To win one of these, leave a comment on this post with your email address.

In the comment, answer the below question :
What can you do with Barbie’s hair? (there’s no right answer, just be creative)

(Read previous Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style review to get some ideas, Here and Here.

AND

Complete this slogan : I love to win Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style because…

Giveaway is open to Malaysia readers only. This will start on October 24th and will run until October 31st 2012.

One week after the end of October 31st, Barbie will choose the winner, and then it’ll be announced here; and the Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style will be sent to the lucky winners!

This is your last chance to join Barbie Giveaway Contest, so don’t forget to put in your entry. Good Luck.

Even before the girls were born, I had started using natural product. My work trips to US would not be complete without a visit to Whole Foods Market; and every time I enter a organic shop locally, I love glancing at the natural skin care and toiletries.

Since the girls’ arrival, the house has more bottles/tubs of natural product, their shampoo, soap, lotion, sunblock, as much as I can, I’ll get those made with natural or organic ingredient. My only concern buying these product was price. The price difference of a bottle of natural shampoo vs a mass produced shampoo locally is huge!

Then, my friend recommended me iHerb.com, a web shop selling such a wide range of natural product, I get high just glancing!

These are some of the bigger brands you can find on iHerb at a fraction of the local retail price for these same product.

Badger
They are famous for their balms and sunscreen.

Credit from Badger

Weleda
The girls first toothpaste was their Children’s Tooth Gel.

Credit from Weleda UK

Nordic Naturals
Famous for their Omega oils.

Credit from Nordic Natruals

These are the product that I’d been buying before being introduced to iHerb, and they are very costly locally (I can only get Nordic Naturals from Singapore though).

Since being introduced to iHerb, I’d bought 8 times from them, taking advantage of their free shipping promotion. I bought toiletries, supplements, tea, lip balms, and even Homeopathy remedies.

The shipment is via normal airmail, and sent in boxes. These were my last loot.

Each box was well padded, came with 1 or 2 free gifts (so far I’d received pens, jams, tea bags).

The previous purchase was more to stock up toiletries for the girls and myself.

For bottles of liquid, normally they are wrapped in zip lock bags. One of the shampoo bottle leaked but it did not wet the rest of the items shipped in the same box.

Now iHerb is giving out free international shipment via DHL global mail, if you purchased USD$40 and above and the combined weight of the items is less than 4lb. (I normally break my orders into many 4lbs to enjoy free shipment) and items normally arrive in 2 weeks after order is placed.

If you are ordering for the first time, enter this code when you check out JIK325, you’ll get USD$10 off on your first order! Or you can just click on this link to start shopping.

(No, this is not a sponsored post, I’m sharing this with you, so you can also enjoy natural product at a cheaper price.)

Tell me which little girl does not like to be a hair dresser??

Barbie Hairtistic Cut & Style fulfill this love that little girls have.

Zara : Maa, we need adult’s help with this Barbie. It’s not easy for us to put the hair extension on.

Playing with this Barbie will require us to participate. Helping the girls to put in the hair extension.

Zara has been trying to learn how to pleat hair, what better way to do this and learn with this Barbie?

After pleating (with some of my help), it can be worn as a braid.

Or Barbie looks just as dashing with her hair all let down.

What the girls like most about the Barbie? The scissors which actually make sounds like a real hair dresser’s scissors snipping hair.

Zara was pretending to cut Barbie’s hair, and then remove the hair extension, which mean, Barbie’s hair length actually got shortened!

The set comes with some accessories for the hair.

It gives the girls a chance to be a hair stylist and they love it!

Yee har!

I have the winner list for the Barbie Design And Dress Studio!

They are *drum roll* :

Michelle
YC
Izz Qowi

All 3 of you will be getting a Barbie Design and Dress Studio set just like this.

Here are their comments :

Congratulations once again to the above winners. Kindly email your name, contact number and mailing address to winx@gocomm.com.my for prizes delivery purposes.

For those of you who didn’t win, it’s ok. Because there’ll be 1 last Giveaways from Barbie! Come back and try your luck again next week!

For little girls, combing, styling, braiding (or attempting to braid) hair is one of the most fun things to do. Zara and Zaria sometimes spend hours trying on different headbands, or clips, or trying to create different hairstyle, on themselves, on each other and sometimes on their soft toys.

Now that we got The Barbie Hairtastic Cut & Style, they can do it on Barbie too!

This set comes with hair extension, a couple of hair accessories, and a pair of scissors and comb to cut and style Barbie’s hair.

Let the girls show you how they style their Barbie’s hair in the next post.

I’ll be announcing the Winners of Barbie Design and Dress Studio Giveaway soon too. Stay tuned.

Half a year ago, I wrote about Zara going into an internal turmoil or worry state where she kept thinking of the worst of things and kept asking what happens if….. While things at school has improved, she’s still a worry wart.

One day before bed time, she found a mosquito in the room. She asked Daddy to swat and kill it. It wasn’t easy to spot the mosquito, so after a while, Daddy gave up. Zara got worried.
Zara : What happens if the mosquito sting me?
Me : It’s ok, you’ll just get an itch.
Zara : NOOOO. What happens if it has plasmasodium?
Me : o.O Plas-WHAT?
Zara : Plasmasodium, the parasite that caused dengue.
(It’s actually Plasmodium. I googled later then found out.)
Me : o.O …..

And another day, she put a pencil in her mouth (don’t know why she did that).
Zara : Dad, I put a pencil in my mouth. And I think I accidentally ate some of the lead. What will happen to me?
Daddy : Nothing will happen to you.
Zara : I remember you told me lead is poisonous. What happens if I got poisoned?
Daddy : The pencils now are made with safe lead. It’s not poisonous any more.
…..
(thought it was over)
Zara : Dad, how long ago was pencil lead still poisonous?
Daddy : Maybe 30 years ago?
Zara : When did you get that pencil? (referring to the pencil she put in her mouth)
Daddy : Don’t know. Maybe last year.
Zara : What happens if the pencil was 30yrs old?
Daddy : It cannot be.
Zara : What happens if you forgot but the pencil was actually something you have for 30yrs?
o.O” Oh.. she can go on.

Other things she worries :
Such as when Daddy cuts her fruits, she’ll ask him, “Did you wash your hands?

Or when Daddy offers her a piece of Tamagoyaki from his sashimi plate, she’ll tell him off, “You took that from the same plate as the raw fish and you want me to eat? I don’t want to get salmonella, ok?.”

Less than 5years… And this is how our Ikea mattress looked like.

They should rename this to Sultan Koyak! Such bad quality mattress!

(We went with Getha this round to replace the Sultan Koyak mattresses we have at home).