Doing The Mini-Me For Mother’s Day

Weeks ago, a mummy friend took me on a wild goose chase around Belchers development to find another mummy selling tailored mini-me outfits. Well, actually it was a whole bunch of mummies who apparently sell stuff out of their apartments in the Belchers area, from jewelry to cloth diaper covers to dresses, but she had somehow misread the email/ had some other miscommunication I forget and we arrived half a day later and at the wrong door.

(Forgive my girlfriend, she can’t sleep at night. I know how that feels. It’s that quietest, darkest time where instead of feeling all zen and introspective you discover a fast and furious hatred for the quiet body snoring obliviously next to you. Add to that you realize you don’t just have little legs kicking you on the outside, you have ’em kicking your insides too. You’d think that would allow you the ole’ “Because Mummy said so!” in the morning, but nooooo. Instead you think, You Better Remember Mother’s Day then, you little…… No? You will “get” it when you “get” the concept of being grounded.)

OK. I need something to cheer me up. Last night was a bad night.

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That’s how I eventually met Quynh-Anh. She’s at www.commemamancollection.com, (being French-Vietnamese, there’s a heavy French influence on her stuff – unbeknownst to me at the time – but I’d remarked to my girlfriend earlier that some of the pieces were a dead ringer for Jacadi blouses or dungarees which btw, cost like, 3 or 4 times what she charges) though I’d actually not seen her website, we went to her home because my girlfriend was after her matching tailor-made mummy/ daddy – child clothes. In general, prices range from HKD 220 to about HKD 350 for kiddie and grownup items… I’m going to end up getting this as baby or bday gifts for a lot of my girlfriends (so I hope she’ll have new designs in future!)

Can’t remember what the matching mummy piece looked like, but for HKD 50 extra you can usually choose one of the other mummy piece styles and have it tailored in the fabric of your choice, if you didn’t like the one that’s available… Unless that is the fabric can’t handle the cut… Darn, I meant to get this blouse too when I went back to collect my finished orders but forgot 😛

Now, I’d long discovered buying Kings Ralph Lauren shirts that matched Rockstar’s was always a welcome gift, but RL has been making fewer matches recently, and well, they don’t do matching cotton voile for mummies. Not to mention Kings was starting to expect RL polo shirts every special occasion. As in, “You bought me more shirts for (insert occasion) right? Where’s my gift? I need a clean shirt.” <sounds of RL gift wrap unceremoniously ripped apart and left on floor as Kings dons shirt and heads out door after I tell him where I’ve “hidden” his gift>

To cut a long story short, my girlfriend and I….. went….. shopping! And here’s my haul:

Rockstar was Lego-ing on the carpet while Quynh-Anh’s daughter Mina (and model in later pictures) threaded a bracelet… (Felt bit bad Rockstar wasn’t more sociable – when there’s new Lego God forbid anything tries to keep him from finishing if he’s decided he will leave wherever he is parked holding a race car/ train/ digger/ whatever, instead of Lego pieces)

I can actually wear this preggers some more...

But he did look up approvingly when I picked this. As in, You Like Pink Mum. Now You Have Someone Who’ll Wear That With You. I’m Happy It’s Not Me. And I’m Happy For You. <Turns back to Lego.>

Rockstar picked the shirt above to wear with the dad a la The Girls Will Wear Something Matching And So Will The Guys… (So now Kings knows what I got him for Father’s Day – if he’s reading my blog halfway around the world where he is right now, that is…)

(And how does she do it, have all the matching clothes without ending up like the Von Trapp Family children?)

"The Hills Are A-liiiiiiiive....." Von Trapp Family Children In The Mountains

See? Somehow she doesn’t have that effect in her pic right… (Ok, maybe the key is to not have 7 children all wearing curtain drapes. It’s a good plan.)

Daddy’s matching shirt looks exactly like the boy’s above… Obviously I can’t wear that dress, so I changed the cut….

I’m eye-ing that little skirt above too. Friends with girls tell me they might keep their daughter in a plain onesie around the home, then for quick trips out they just put the skirt on. But I balked because I hadn’t handled a little skirt like that before (obviously!)… So I’m starting with dresses/ blouses paired with tights/ pants…

And I bought the dresses bigger to layer over tees in cooler weather, aiming to stick to light long sleeve blouses in summer because of my morbid fear of bug bites.

(Seriously, don’t you just get so mad when you see an angry red welt on your child’s tender flesh that you want for the entire species to be extinct? What good are mosquitos, except to feed cicaks (house lizards)? Rockstar brought back this library book about extinction that he made me read while he filmed me on his iPod (his latest brainwave so he can “keep” library books even after he has had to return them) and some of the animals that went extinct were these cute furry things. And then things like cockroaches survive since the dinosaur age? HOW unfair is that??)

Anyway. Remembering Mother’s Day, as I was saying. Oh look, she did.

Cannot resist. Must put up another Brad and Hudson.

 I don’t like “Brad” (Mr Pitt’s fault), but – is it too late to call my baby Hudson?