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Expo Mom is back!  And what’s even better is that it will be a two-day affair!  Double yehey! That means, more shopping time for us, shopaholic Mommies!  Expo Mom 2012 will be held at Rockwell Tent on May 5-6 Saturday and Sunday.  So save the date!

The theme for this year is Modern Motherhood.  Find out what type of modern Mom are you and join the ongoing contest where you could win awesome prizes like a Flip HD video cam, Havaianas pairs, Mommy Matters wardrobe and products, Cisco wireless router, Childbirth Classes with Rome Kanapi (classes to be redeemed at 6/7 months pregnancy), Baby Couture diaper bag, Next9 baby sling, and many more!

I am an Earth-loving Mom because I cloth diaper my baby.

I’m soon to be a mompreneur!  A new biz is underway. :excited:

I’m a Tech mom because I work and earn $$ through blogging.

I don’t see myself returning to the corporate world anymore because I’d rather be with my kids 24/7. 

I breastfed my eldest for 2 years and 9 months. For my second child, we’ve been exclusively breastfeeding for almost 6 months now!

I’m one happy SaYa mom user here.

If you are looking for a worthwhile activity to get your kid busy with this summer, enrolling them in a music class is a smart idea.  Check out Toddlers Unlimited’s (4F Festival Supermall) offering wherein they have a Dance Class for ages 3-8, Guitar Lessons for 6-14 years old, Voice Lessons for 7-14 years old and Piano Lessons for ages 7-14 years old.  The summer program is entitled “Unleash the Star in You” and it aims to build up a child’s confidence and hone his skills in dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.  This is a good foundation and enhance one’s interest and skills in music to a higher level.  With an Ableton Software they may even come up with a composition of their own.

This is ongoing until the 31st of May.  For more details, contact Mariel Santos-09151271074.

The last activity that my son’s school had before the school year ended was centered on the theme “Love Earth”.  Each of students had planted a sunflower seedling and they brought it home last Valentine’s Day.  At such a young age, it’s so nice to see my 4-year old son having a sense of responsibility for his plant.  He constantly checks the plant whenever he steps out of the house and makes sure that it has been watered regularly.  He also addressed it as “my plant” and even takes pride to let his playmates know that he has his own plant.

This inspired us to have more plants in our backyard.  We bought a few wooden planters and transferred some branches of the existing ones we have to grow more.  Our helper also planted some vegetable seedlings and herbs like tomatoes, pandan, sili and oregano.  My son was so delighted seeing all these greens in our backyard.  This is our own little way of showing our love for the earth.

A few friends of mine have already gone to the newly opened The Mind Museum in at Taguig.  They said that they had a pleasurable experience and their kids enjoyed the museum visit.  I hope I can bring my preschooler there one of these days so that he’ll learn more and be fascinated about science.  The museum has lots of interactive “minds-on” and hands-on exhibit so that kids (and grown ups, too) will learn more about science in a fun and more interesting way.

According to the website, The Mind Museum has five galleries namely:

1. The Story of the Universe: Its Beginning and Majesty
2. The Story of the Earth: Its Story Across the Breadth of Time
3. The Story of Life: The Exuberant Varieties of Life
4. The Story of the Atom: The Strange World of the Very Small
5. The Story of Technology: The Showcase of Human Ingenuity

Visits are organized in three-hour blocks of time:

9 a.m.- 12 p.m.

12 p.m. – 3 p.m.

3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

6 p.m. – 9 p.m. (weekends only)

Operating hours are Tuesday-Fridays: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Weekends:  9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Ticket Prices are as follows:

Adult:  P600

Children & Private School Student (up to college): P450

Public School Student (up to college): P150

Teachers: P150

All Day Pass: P750

Below 2ft in height: Free

I really hope we can visit the museum soon this summer.  I bet the little one will enjoy the interactive stuff and tinker with the laboratory furnaces.  This is a perfect summer activity for the kids so that they won’t get bored and still learn even while they are on a school break.

The Mind Museum is located at JY Campos Park, 3rd Avenue Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.

We want nothing but the best for our kids.  That’s why we just not entrust their health to anybody else.  We scout for the best doctors or Pediatricians so that we’d have peace of mind and assured that they are very well taken care of.  At times that they get sick, there are instances when they are referred to Pediatric specialists so that the child’s sickness is specifically addressed.   In the US, doctors can make the necessary referrals through checking out Doximity.  Doximity is an exclusive network for physicians where their profiles that include their education and specialization are published.  They can locate each other, send HIPAA compliant text messages, send faxes from their smartphones and exchange private contact information. Martin Blume DO is among the physicians whose profile is listed in there.  You can check out his clinical areas of interest, specialty, languages spoken and publications appended from PubMed in his profile.