Peek-a-boo!

Okay, this is more of a Topaz Mommy post but since I promised my mommy readers over there that my next post there is the second part of Iñigo's birthday, I kinda had to put this one here. I just wanted to show you my birthday boy's favorite game to play.

That little Iñigo! So silly and naughty and cute! And his Kuya Vito is just as cute in his absolute love for his baby brother! I'm a happy bunny. So happy!

Fashion Friday: My favorite breastfeeding dress

I get a lot of questions about clothes I wear that are fit for breastfeeding. Mommies ask me that all the time because frankly, there's not enough stylish nursing clothes in Manila. I've been able to get a few nice ones but here's my current favorite:

Ashley Smocked Dress from Dote Studio, Pedro gray pumps, Longchamp clutch

It's a gray empire-waist dress with flared sleeves from Dote Studio from Singapore. I bought it and another nursing dress from Brandsfever. I won't be doing that again. The dresses cost me P4,197.63. Then when they arrived at the post office, I had to pay P1,786 for customs duty, EVAT, IPF, CDS and BIR stamp. I have no idea what the last three are but pay I must so pay I did.

Anyway, I love my Dote Studio dresses! They're made of really nice cloth unlike the many nursing mommy clothes out there, which are usually made of this horrible thin cotton-like thing that clings to every post-preggy lump. Just look at it. It doesn't even look like a breastfeeding dress!

I wore it to a lunch date with Vince at Circles, Makati Shangri-la...

My hungry husband.

I told ya I never brush my hair!

... and to coffee with my Wine Night friends at Apartment 1B in One Rockwell.

I'll blog about my other breastfeeding dresses and tops soon on August! Hehe, that's Breastfeeding Awareness Month. I want to take better pictures of my nursing clothes so that you mommies will see that your style doesn't have to suffer when you breastfeed!

Topaz Mommy and Mom & Me

CONTEST IS CLOSED.

I have another blog called Topaz Mommy. I made another one when I got pregnant way back in 2009 because I knew most of Topaz Horizon's readers are young, professional, single, childless women. I didn't want to alienate the readers so I made a new blog just for mommies.

For a good long while there, I thought I just doubled my blogging stress haha. Ya know, two blogs to update, two sets of readers to entertain haha. But now I'm glad I made two blogs because each blog has its own personality and each blog attracts different readers and different advertisers. So both blogs earn me money, instead of just one source of blogging income. Hooray!

And now my blogger profile just got a big boost. I'd like to say that Topaz Mommy is a proud media partner of an event. It's my very first time to be a media partner! I'm so stressed out!!! Kidding! I am thrilled no end because Topaz Mommy is the ONLY BLOG partner of Mom & Me. My mommy blog sits alongside such media heavyweights like Smart Parenting, Good Housekeeping, K-Zone, Total Girl, Disney Junior, Disney Princess, Business World, Herword.com, Highlife, Kristn and Southern Living. I feel like I, as a blogger, have finally made a dent in the media, not just blogging, industry.

If you look at the official poster below, my blog logo is the rightmost logo under the Media Partners section. I knoooow I'm being so easily excitable but this is a big deal, y'all!

Mom & Me is a special event that promotes fun activities for moms and kids to bond over. There's fitness activities like yoga, Zumba, taekwondo. There's health stuff like cooking and talks on nutrition. There's storytelling, a fashion show, face painting and other fun art activities. For more about Mom & Me, please check out my Topaz Mommy post.

Anyway, I gave away free tickets to the Mom & Me event over at Topaz Mommy. But the Mom & Me organizers are feeling generous so they said I can give away more!!! I have two more tickets to give to two lucky moms. All you have to do is Tweet this: "I want to go to the @MommyandMePH event! @FrancesASales, pick me! Pls RT!" Easy as pie! Actually, pies are not easy to make.

So let's do this! Tweet away and I'll pick a winner by Friday! Good luck!


UPDATE: Winners are @tatacarms and @lynileo. Both have been contacted via Twitter. Congratulations!