From The Toy Box: Dinosaur Excavation Kit

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How is your summer so far? Are you bored or have you found some interesting ways to pass your time. I sure hope I can squeeze in a few more activities before summer is over. I would love to learn how to play one of those 60s guitars, but I am not sure if mum can find an affordable music tutor nearby.

Anyway, it was another one of those lazy summer afternoons when mum unearthed this National Geographic Channel Dinosaur Excavation Kit so I can play with it. I’ve had it for a while now but have not found the time to play with it. I was also down with coughs and colds when we received it that mum kept it until I am well and free from the sniffles. The educational toy kit include this small grey block, a small brush, + a chisel. The goal is to dig into the small block until you find the remains of a dinosaur buried somewhere underneath.

played adventurers for a day + found this seismosaurus! #jaredslittlecorner #weekend #fms_photoaday #fms_neutrals

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Mum set up my chairs outside + unboxed this toy. I dug the afternoon away, searching for a sign of a dinosaur in between the dust and the rubble. With a little help from mum, I finally managed to dig up this cool seismosaurus from the block. Don’t you think he was cool? It was also an awesome idea to be a little adventurer for a day, searching for this buried treasure. I think dinosaurs are very awesome creatures + I also currently like the film, The Good Dinosaur, which we saw at the cinema a few months back. Mum downloaded a copy + I’ve watched it several times at home.

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What is your current favorite toy? I will be featuring my new Hot Wheels Speedtropolis Playset next and I hope you stay tuned for that. Cheers!

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my lightning mcqueen magic slate

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i did mention in my kids in doodles post that mum + i went to manila last weekend to meet up with my ninang jack. i last saw her when i was baptized, so i am not familiar with her that much. mum + her agreed to meet up at the block, in sm north. we found one of this shops that serve taho, which is one of my favorites + the grown ups decided to sit there for awhile as they finish their cups of taho. i am not too fond of it + would rather play around while they eat 😀

ninang jack gave me a gift which i  excitedly open. when all the christmas wrapper is gone, i got this lightning mcqueen magic slate + i liked it instantly. i doodles on the magnetic pad + played with the clock + the knobs on top. it also comes with these shapes of heart, circle + triangle that leaves a stamp-pad like print on the slate when you use it. mum also wrote letters on the slate for me to read + my ninang was so delighted that i can now distinguish + read most of the letters of the alphabet 😀

after i got bored writing on the slate, the different stamp-pad like shapes make for good improvised balls i threw around the floor! i was all over the floor catching them, + sometimes mum would run + get them for me. + did i mention i knocked down a poster/display in the shop in the middle of my rough play? glad the shop keeper did not spank me!

mum told me to just sit + behave after that, but she knows i cannot really sit still for 5 solid seconds, i had to run around the place again.  i busied myself checking out the mannequins nearby before the grown ups decided to call it a day.

my entry for this week’s toy stories 🙂 my new lightning mcqueen magic slate has that cool orange border so thought i’d share it with orange tuesdays 🙂

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kids in doodles: jared + his matchbox

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it is a monday once again + it is time again for another round of kids in doodles + before i get on with my story, as promised, allow me to brag about my new k.i.d meme badges {you can find a few more here}, courtesy of tita grace, who was also responsible for my new blog look! mum needs to work a bit more with the codes so i hope you’d be patient 🙂
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now on with my doodle share of the week ^_^
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who's very happy to see them cars again?
there is nothing i love more than toy cars, + i bet you’ve probably noticed that by now, so just imagine my delight when i opened my dad’s christmas gift for me ~ a box of matchbox toy cars!
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my new stuffed friend

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check out my new stuffed friend ~ fishy! she is a green dolphin which mum got for me when we visited manila ocean park last december. she reminds me of all the fish + other sea creatures we saw in that place that day. they are all colorful + we had a great time watching them as they swim around.

i really love stuffed animals that is why mum makes it a point to get me one whenever we visit a new place.  she also put them on my playpen so i can play with them whenever i want to. i also sleep beside them during my late afternoon nap times.

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am sure my other stuffed friends will enjoy fishy’s company + we’ll have loads of fun time playing together. am guessing mum will buy me a new stuffed toy soon, hopefully she’ll get me one of those miniature teddy bears, or a pocoyo plush or maybe that big-as-i-am mickey mouse doll we saw at the mall when we went there for our christmas shopping. i would love to have one of those + am sure my stuffed playmates will be delighted to have him as a new friend 😀

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christmas gifts

I have never really gone out to visit my ninongs + my ninangs, since most of them live in manila where mum used to work before. although i’ve  only got a few gifts for this year, i love each one of them + who knows maybe i will get more in the coming days. christmas season is not yet over, anyway 😉

here are my favorite gifts this christmas:

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this is a book + slate given to me by my ninang ella, which i particularly loved because i love cars + i also love doodling 🙂

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this one is the last of mum’s wooden toy gifts. this is the only one i got to open on christmas eve, really, since this is the only one mum brought from our tree back home. since it is impractical to bring all my gifts along when we went home, mum brought this so i will be sure to open it during our celebration. we opened it before the feast + i was dosing off to dreamland when the grown ups started eating the food they prepare. i love this toy, i played with it for a long time when i opened it! 🙂

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the last gift i will share to you is this hotwheels bowl set which was given to me by tita jane, one of mum’s friends. i love it too, even if it’s not a toy as i will surely enjoy using them in the coming days. hopefully mum can encourage me to eat more solids next year with this 🙂

i will tell you more about my other gifts next time…sharing this thru toy stories 🙂

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