Nov
26

Birthday girl

by Sofia   -   in Random

Every year I get surprised at how it is possible that it has been so long since the first time I saw my baby girl and became a mother. I became something I had always wanted to be. I have such fond memories from that day! Yesterday was time to celebrate our little girl again on her sixth birthday. Her dream was to ride an elephant and that came true a few days earlier. For her little gift here on holiday she got a pretty bracelet with elephants and turquoise ( her favourite colour) glass pearls. We also got her a cake delivered to our room before breakfast so she got to blow out some candles. At dinner she had a surprise private magic show ( it was a huge hit) and some more cake with singing after dinner. All in all she had a wonderful time and her day ended in a foot massage ( which seems to be their new favourite treat).

Yesterday on her birthday Cotton Candy learned to swim. What she may not remember is that she was a good diver already in baby swim school.

Sweet Cotton Candy,

You give so much joy to our lives.

You are such a smart girl but every time you learn a new skill, like writing, you get so excited about it. I love your enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. Always asking questions and questioning the answers.

We can find you drawing pictures for everyone you love all the time. Your drawings are so wonderful we have a hard time deciding which ones to keep and which to recycle. We may end up drowning in pretty drawings.

You are the greatest big sister always helping out, lending your hand and looking after your silly little sister. 

You are a fun friend to everyone and you have a very strong sense of right and wrong.  You don´t leave friends out and that is why you have so many. You always invent games to play and you are very rarely bored. You think of your friends and teachers and what they like and if you see something they love you will want to get it for them.

You craft wonderful things out of anything. You just see the world as one big craft supply store.

You love goofing around with your friends but are a little reserved with people you don´t know. You don´t let anyone hurry you in to doing things you are not sure about. I love that about you!

We love you to the moon and back ( and yes now you want to know everything about the moon and I will have to get you all the facts just to get it all right).

Happy birthday Cotton Candy! You make our lives so sweet and rich and full of knowledge and wisdom…

Lattemamma

p.s. I loved how we were reading my old Peanuts book about what good friends are for and on one page it said  ” Good friends do your homework for you if you don´t know how” and you said  ” No mom, that is absolutely not allowed! If you don´t know the answers you have to learn them!” It says so much about you ♥

Nov
25

Grey

by Sofia   -   in Good things for kids  Shopping

Tämä kaunis Jacadi mekko on ollut Hattaralla jo kaikissa syksyn juhlissa mukana. Se on tarpeeksi yksinkertainen, että siinä voi mennä vaikka koulukuvaukseen ( niinkuin meillä), mutta se sopii hyvin myös vaikka joulujuhlaan. Pidän siitä, että mekko on pitkähihainen, mutta vähän lyhyempi malli. Se sopii suloisesti pikkutytölle. Harmaa väri sopii kauniisti valkoisen, vaaleanpunaisen tai tummansinisen kanssa.  Punaiseen yhdistettynä se on täydellinen joulu aikaan!

We had plenty of events and festivities during this fall and they are not diminishing towards Christmas. But as plenty of these happenings were already in September and October we bought Cotton Candy a new party dress right after the Fall Winter collections came out. It was this Jacadi dress that I fell in love with and I can tell you it looks so gorgeous on her. It´s understated and timeless buts till looks festive and appropriate for all kinds of events. It´s a dress that can be worn on the town too ( I like it with grey ribbed tights and ankle booties) if you want to get a tad dressed up but also goes well to school Christmas parties or music recitals. We will have some other new festive outfits for this winter too that I will then share a bit later on.

I like that this dress has long sleeves which is not that common in kids clothing but is a tad shorter than most party dresses. This model looks adorable on little girls. And you can imagine the bow and the collar make me smile too! Bubble Gum loves her sister´s old party dress that is in the same colour so she was happy to wear that for all our occasions so far. Grey is one of my favourite colours. I use it a lot myself but I think it´s also lovely on children. It goes well with pink and white but also looks perfect with navy blue or red. I guess grey and red is a quite a Christmassy colour combination but ” this the season” so go for it I say… 

Have a fantastic day!

Lattemamma

Nov
24

Raw Snickers Bars

by Sofia   -   in Cooking

Snickers Bars or slabs don´t really sound like the healthiest thing to eat but these contain no refined sugars, wheat or dairy! I saw the recipe on Livia´s kitchen blog and thought I really wanted to give it a try. You can find the recipe for these here. If you are interested in “healthy”  recipes I have a whole Pinterest board dedicated to them! But like with everything else, sugar or no sugar I think that the presentation should look like the baker. So these raw and vegan treats still get to be styled with pretty pink! In this case with this porcelain take away cup I got from my friend as a birthday present.