And I trully wish that this will work for us. If it is any indication though, (I am totally hopeful about this), when I put 
And voila! barely 3 hrs. after, it had been washed and pressed na. All ready to go malling with us later. Can hardly wait to try it out. Hope I wont forget to ask your Daddy to snap some pics of us - me & you, my little munchkin on it later. These are some of the mommy stuffs which excites your Mom.
P.S. Mommy loves you very much.
Hi little prince!
This is Mommy's account of how I made complaints to Kimberly Clark regarding their inefficient handling of their Christmas promo, which gave us your Chicco slide...and this is a happy ending. At least now, I got you your Chicco slides. But for all the hassles and inconvenience we went through, haaay super not worth it. Had we known, we should have just gotten you the same slides from the local toy shop. It might have cost us more in terms of hard-earned moolah, but it could have spared us the agony of trying to contact their hotline and playing their waiting game...all because, for the life of me (and Mommy's getting all-heated up again...) I still couldn't understand how & why, they couldn't have foreseen the "demand". Oh men! such a lame excuse for marketing people...i mean they owe us, Mommies much better explanations.
But anyway, what's important for us, my boy is that their Sr. Marketing Officer did deliver on her promise. She said they will have the slides delivered to our place on March 15 (a Saturday) and she made good. She had a representative send the item over at around 7pm. I totally pity the girl who had to make the delivery. She was on a tricycle, inspite of the bulky box she's bringing. I mean, a taxi would have been best given the circumstance. Our place is a bit on the outskirt of the city na and it's & it's 7pm for goodness sake! Haay, I can only see how lousy Kimberly Clark is as a company if this is how they take care of their employees. Oh well, just my opinion. I hope their pay is worth it. When you grow up son, hope you wont be joining the labor force and being unfortunate enought to be employed by such companies. And if you will be lucky enough to have your own company, pls. remember to take care of your employees and treat them accordingly.
Anyway, when you saw the new slides, all dirty at that...i mean it has not been cleaned with our usual Lysol on playthings (lol) but you don't really care. I have barely said thank you to the representative and you were all over the new slides already. Your yaya quickly cleaned it up and in no time you are climbing up and sliding down like you've been doing it forever. Oh maybe my letting you try it out at Wonderland helped a lot. But mostly it's your attitude. You're very adventurous...and doesn't fear the new experiences. If anything it even excites you. How i love seeing you, my little boy enjoying your new toy. Maybe the wait & inconveniences are small stuffs when I am seeing you in all excitement playing with your new toy with gusto. Hayy, if only we remain kids forever. Then life would be so much more simplier.
Glad you liked this slides of yours, sweetheart! Mommy now is happy seeing you enjoying yourself. Love you so...
This is a late Christmas gift for you, our dearest Benedict. Actually, this was purchased online last December pa but was delivered to a relative's address in Canada. Your Tito Michel brought this home last week when he came for his family. (Thanks so much Tito Michel & Tita Syvel for this favor...we will be missing your cousin, Christabelle, their cutie little girl.) And we had to ask your Kuya Vergel to personally get it from Mapang pa. Both Mommy & Daddy are excited to have you try it out. We are just crossing our fingers that you will like this buggy better than our Graco stroller. Our greatest fear is that you still wouldn't want to be strapped in the stroller long enough for us to do our grocery task. uh-uh... Now that you're mobile, you are literally everywhere. You seem to think SM is a big playground. And you do have your own agenda... playing catch with the poor SM salesboy using their beach balls. To you, my mischevous tiny tike, pure bliss! I pity the look of the salesclerk which spells a-g-o-n-y
It's scheduled mall time for us later so we will be able to "road-test" our new Mac Quest buggy. I just luv it's color and the fact that it can be washed because the pad can be easily removed from the stroller. But of course we will be missing our ever-dependable Graco stroller...with the spacious basket & sturdy handle where we always hang our baby bag and shopping purchases.
or how about becoming a KARATE CHAMPION? just like your Ate Gabby is right now?
will this qualify you to become a MODEL?
Oh well... if you'll turn out to be a beach bum, then being an uber-cool LIFEGUARD, complete with abs would be it! Life will be a beach...
however you would turn up to be, little boy, please know that Daddy & Mommy will always be behind you 101% all the way. You are our little prince! Love you so, Eng Sim...
My only worry is that my friend told me a few days
But with Baby Tad around to keep him company, I was able to set-up the new Little Leaps system in peace...after a few missed attemps on 
The rest of the afternoon and even after dinner, was spent playing with his Little Leaps...he also liked pushing & pulling the buttons. So far, he likes the red circle button on the center, but he can say "boo" (blue) which means he can actually identify the blue rectangular button on his left. I think I am more excited than Benedict..hahaha..I tried pushing the buttons myself. And we had fun late in the afternoon bonding over his new toys.
And after his 2nd birthday, he will be ready to move on to the "toddler" mode CDs which has the following titles:
When I see my little prince enjoying his new toy like this, it makes me so thankful that we get to buy stuffs for him. And I love my husband even more bec. he makes effort to work hard just so his son can "play hard". Thanks so much Babes! We love you so, Dada...
Yu were so tired of yesterday's activities my little boy!... imagine skipping your usual 2-4 hr. afternoon nap altogether...but that was partly our fault too. Sorry little one, we dragged you to the airport with us to fetch Auntie Heny. And to Mama Abel's clinic where Auntie had a dental appointment. And of course, you were excited to play with your Ate Gabby. No wonder that this morning, you were teary-eyed when you looked for me the moment you woke up. I was already in my work area checkin' my emails. But you were all smiles when you saw your surprise!
We finally got your boxful of Leap Frog stuffs...but most of the books I have kept directly in the closet to avoid being lugged around by who else but you, my the little boy. You wont be needing them just yet. But I am already satisfied with the purchases I have made...which your Daddy obviously had to pay for...
Just the same, 
In fact, after your lunch I was able to set-up your new Little Leaps system in peace...after a few missed attemps on the codes, 'coz you, my Benedict were occupied with your new friend. Baby Tad was singing a counting song (which I am actually not familiar with) and by mid-noon, you my little boy were already adding "ten" to your few counting vocabulary consisting of only "eight" and "nan" (nine) at this time.
You were so smitten with the new toy that when you napped in the afternoon, you were hugging the stuffed toy to sleep. And you're constantly hugging (or maybe wrestling is the more appropriate word?...haha) Baby Tad again tonight just before your bedtime.
Your Dad and I love watching you enjoy your toys little one. It makes us reminisce our happy childhood days too. We may not have as much toys as you have, I guess, but we were as happy individually. So our only hope and prayer at this point is for you to grow up equally blissful in our care too and in Papa God's guidance. God bless us all! We love you, little munchkin!
Hello sweetheart!
I was pissed off these past 2 days because a representative from Huggies delivered the wrong toy to our place. And bec. our houseboy didn't know the difference (a slide is...a slide to him) so he accepted it, gave the 50 points worth of empty Huggies wrappers and paid the cash portion of Php 2,000.
You can just imagine my dismay when an hour after, I saw the new "Chicco" slides, now all cleaned up (wiped with Lysol at that) and ready for you, my little munchkin to tumble down. Good thing that you, my little one are still napping. I immediately texted the representative first to ask if Step 2 is same as Chicco...he replied that Step 2 costs Php 500 more than the Chicco slides. hmmm, really? I told your Daddy Marlon to drop by our fave toyshoppe in the vicinity, Ventura--which carries all known brands of kiddie toys & gadgets (Little Tikes, Chicco, Playskool, the likes...) and guess what? The salesclerks there, whom we have befriended already for being repeat customers...told your Dad that said brand (Step 2) is not the same as Chicco. Their plastic is not only thinner but a bit more rought too as compared with the Chicco brand. Oh, oh! I am slowly heating up to a boil...grrrr!!! Mommy is definitely angry, my darling!
I immediately texted the same representative to make the complaint. To his benefit, he also made a Huggies representative call me. Explaining that they dont have the Chicco slides anymore & that Step 2 is a sister company (really? how come I never heard of the said brand before?). Anyway, Mommy told the said girl representative to just make sure that this slides delivered to me will be exchanged with the Chicco ones. And she did say that she will forward my concern to someone on the next higher rank. Okay...what else can Mommy do at this point? I emailed my sisters at Newlyweds@Work but it seem that aside from 2 other people, no one else is bothered by the same thing that's pissing me off.
I remembered your Di Ei, whom I have convinced to buy a boxful of Huggies diapers so she can avail of the same promo. I even hand-carried the said box to Cebu since we bought it here in CDO at special price from your Ah Ko's pharmacy. Anyway, your Di Ei said that she will also call the Huggies Cebu office to relay Mommy's concern in case they won't be calling me anytime soon.
The whole day almost passed by, no calls whatsoever..Oh, i got a text message from the guy representative (the one who delivered the Step2 slides to our place) asking for my email address. It gave me an idea, browsing through a Huggies leaflet, i got an email address. So I sent them a very detailed and lengthy email...recounting all the events starting from when I placed the first call informing them of my desired toy to redeem, to how your Auntie Kathleen and her son Kyran got her slides first when in fact I have placed my order ahead of her (I should know this bec. I have shared my extra wrappers with them AFTER i have placed the call)...to how I had been trying to call Huggies hotline up a few more times to make a follow-up to how the said representative even tried to make me meet him up for the exchange of slides & wrappers making me believe all this time that he is delivering a Chicco slides (even indicated it in his text messages), when in fact it was clearly stated in the same leaflet they have given out last year that FOR RESIDENTS OUTSIDE THE SAID AREAS (where there are respective redemption centers, such as Cebu & Davao), TOYS WILL BE DELIVERED TO THEIR ADDRESSES. I texted the same representative that I am so disappointed with the service they are giving and it speaks of the poor customer service of their company.
I don't know if that did it or the fact that I warned them too through that lengthy email that I wont hesitate to bring this case to the local DTI to make a formal complaint against them. Barely an hour or roughly 30 mins. after I've hit the sent button, I received a call from a certain Rowena Orbon, a marketing representative this time, apologizing profusely and promising to deliver the Chicco slides not later than 2 weeks from now, as she said there will be deliveries she had expected to come next week. So much for Chicco slides being faced out hence the exchange to Step 2...i pity how corporate people can be forced to make lame excuses and blatant lies?! So may this serve as a reminder to you, my little one..young as you may be now, there will come a point in time that you will be able to comprehend Mommy's stories such as this one...pls. remember to KEEP YOUR WORD at all times, because this will totally speak so much of you and your credibility as a person. And will also reflect on how effectively we have instilled good values in you, our dearest son.
The moral of this long story?
when you have become an adult...Know our basic consumer rights! I once made a complaint to DTI and won their favor and I won't hesitate to do it again...if only to teach these giant companies that we consumers should be their topmost priority when they go into promotions like this. After all who came up with these promo ideas in the first place? And they could have saved their sanity if only they had not forgotten to write on their leaflets a one-line all important waiver "offer good while supply lasts..." So make sure that you follow through with all your commitments my little boy. When you are all grown-up, you too will learn that it's a dog-eat-dog, mean world out there...but you can make a difference. By being reliable & trustworthy! So keep your promise at all costs...or never make one.
Anyway, I'll be counting the days when I get hold of the real Chicco slides replcement. And this time they better deliver on their promise...everything for you, our little prince! Mommy will do all in my capacity to ensure that our rights are not compromised, dear little Benedict. If only to teach you that we must stand for our rights. I hope you grow up o become a man of honor, sweet little baby. Hmmm, Mommy wants you to know you are so loved.
