All About Clothes!

I spent my me-time today unpacking while ironing our clothes. How cool is that? :) I took the chance to hopefully finish fixing our stuff while the kids had their afternoon nap :)

Well, I am still not done unpacking. Nope, we didn't bring home tons of things from our short stay in Manila. Unpacking, on my terms is: sorting, fixing and putting of new clothes to their proper places. This means I had to make room for the newer clothes, remove the old ones and hand them down to the newest bubs in town :)

While doing all of these and ironing our clothes, I realized: my kids just have so MUCH clothes already! I mean at ages 3 and 1, they already have their own cabinets plus 1 tallboy which they share. They even have enough supply of clothes until they turn 6 (for Liam) and 3 (for Sam), for all seasons, at that! But wait, we didn't buy all of it, okay? Most of it, yes. But there is a handful of hand-me-downs and gifts as well :) There is just too much clothes! I can choose not to buy them new clothes in the next 2-3 years! I am running out of cabinets! Getting a new one is not part of my solution.

And boy are they lucky! I remember that I had my first pair of jeans when I was already in high school and it was a hand-me-down. The first pair of jeans that I really owned was California Paddocks which I earned after landing at the Top 3 of my class. And my kids? Well, almost all their clothes are branded already. Guess, Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Oshkosh, Old Navy, and even Lascoste! I had my first Lacoste polo shirt when I was already working! Yeah, no one to blame but me :( At this age they are not aware of the value of the clothes they are wearing, we are not actually telling them, because they might ask for it all the time and we won't be able to sustain it hehehehe. And realizing that Liam will only get to wear these only on occasions and weekends once he starts going to the big school (because he has to wear a uniform, right?), is nakakapanghinayang.

So this weird idea came into my mind while I was ironing our clothes. The next time I am tempted to buy them new clothes I would still get the money but I'd put the money some place else. We plan to open an account for the two of them by next week and so that is one place where I can put the money OR I can put it on our travel fund, so it will be easier for the family's plan to travel to materialize ;) OR we can use the money to help out others :)

So there, this is my newest project and hopefully hubby will be happy with it :)

Excited!

Yes, that is the perfect word that describes how I feel as I started washing Samantha's clothes. By far, this would probably be the shortest blog I will write, because I will just be sharing the excitement that I feel now that I have a baby girl coming. What makes me excited? Well, the fact that I can already dress up my little girl! :)

Unlike with Liam, it was only just shirts, polo, jumpers, jackets, and shoes. But with my baby girl, the options for having a good outfit is endless! Of course I have to prepare my pocket for that.

It is a good thing that we were able to keep most of Liam's baby stuff. The ones he got only to wear once or twice and then he outgrew it already. Yes, the color might be blue, but I don't think that letting my baby girl wear those blue-colored clothes will affect her being a girl. The funny thing though is, I tend to avoid pink. I think it doesn't have to be automatic that if you're having a girl, she should wear pink clothes! I'd prefer lavander or purple clothes for my Sam. Of course, my little girl has her own set of new clothes and she is one lucky girl!

Some of my early favorites are her Baby Gap onesies and H/M onesies, care of her Uncle Jay (all pasalubongs from his US and London Trip), her Baby Gap leggings and the socks, booties (especially the Lavender one), mittens (from my Mom). Here is a glimpse of her new clothes. I haven't started buying for her, because I know once I start, I might not be able to stop! :)