BUBBA

It's getting really hard to get a photo of an outfit in focus these days, and everybody tells me he is just going to busier... so sorry about the bad photo, but I wanted to share this t-shirt (part of the awesome t-shirt collection) before it's totally too small for the little guy. It's from Hog Kong. It's Bubba Gump from Forest Gump. It's awesome! Especially awesome with his overall-blue pants.

LITTLE NIPPER

Little man, you have crabs! And not in the rude way, in the way that you have crabs printed all over your awesome pajamas. These PJ's are definitely coming along to our beach holiday.

WHITE STRIPES

Sorry - I have run out of clever stripes-related headlines, but there are some white stripes between the red, blue and navy ones you see... Anyhoo, it's a white shirt, with stripes in the right colors, which makes it awesome!

I just wanted to share this from Urban Dictionary... made me laugh:
Anyhoo. Used by many people, usually mentally retarded, as a means of saying 'anywho, or anyhow'.

MOMMY'S LITTLE SKATER BOY

Well, he is not quite that capable on his two fat little feet yet, but I'm sure he will soon give his mommy many more grey hairs with his antics... There is a lot I like about this shirt, especially that it's grey, and has stripes. (I'm actually very glad to have a photo of this shirt now, because in a very unfortunate washing incident, these white stripes turned blue yesterday.)

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

What to wear on a hot summers day with nothing much to do but be lazy around the house? A white onesie.. what else!? At first I thought this was way too simply, and I tried to pair one of the small man's hats with this onesie, but that just made it all too fussy. I mean who wears a hat indoors anyway...

BLUE MONDAY

I was lucky enough to have the day off yesterday. That means that the little guy and myself could spend the whole day getting all kinds of dirty and change outfits so many times that we eventually settled on this blue ensemble mostly bought from Ackermans - minus the nappy. 

CAN YOU DIG IT?

Yes you can in your awesome red, white and blue, hipster, three quarter pants and a plain white vest my little man! These pants can with an awesome denim shirt, but it's just too hot for long sleeves right now.

OH MICKEY, YOU'RE SO FINE

This was the most perfect weekend! Finally the weather played along so that we could spend the whole day poolside, eating messy fruit and splashing around under cover of SPF60 water-resistant sun-block (gross). And finally the little guy could wear the Mickey Mouse swimsuit I bough for him on sale at Ackermans for the price of a pineapple. There are a few other swimming outfits in the cupboard just waiting to be paraded around, so if the weather stays as awesome as this you'll be seeing loads more soon.

JELOUS DOWN

We can't help that some people (like the boy here) have so many pairs of funky check shorts to sport this summer. Today it's the pair from Zara kids, bought in Hong Kong, with a simple white vest. I do know that by the time I get home today the little guy would be in his third white vest of the day, that why you buy them cheap and plenty!

POOH ON YOUR SHOES

These are the sweetest shoes a little guy can own! Winnie the Pooh, Disney and Adidas all rolled into one pair of fancy footwear for my little man. I have been waiting for him to grow into these and sadly he's almost grown out of them already. At least he thinks of them more like a toy than a fashion statement, so they will be around for a little longer before being tucked away with the rest of the very special clothes I'm saving for a very lucky somebody new.

SMALL PAUL

A great onesie to get up to some monkey business in is this wee number from a land far away... Thank you aunty for the rad outfit, the suspenders, and making the white onesie a little less expected. Sorry for the blurry shot, it's hard to get the monkey to sit still for photos these days.

MCTAVITY CAT...

... is a mysterious cat. He is looking at the birds through the window, wearing his navy onesie on this very hot day, and his check cap to keep the sun out of his eyes.

TARTAN TROUSERS

It's very rare for me to dress the little guy in secondary colors. I think the reason is simply because I don't really like orange or purple, and although I do like some greens, lime green makes me feel ill. I don't even like eating the orange or green sweets in the packet... but these shorts just worked for me when I first saw them. The colors are fresh and cool and summery and not gross like orange sweets or lime anything.

NOT SO MELLOW YELLOW

When I was a little fat kid I went bananas for all things neon! I used to roll layers of neon socks up one over the other, revealing my rainbow neon ankles under my stone-wash denims, and matched these with an abundance on neon bangles on my wrists. Never did I think that one day my own kid would be sporting the neon trend too. Here the little guy's yellow neon striped shirt is accentuated by smears of picnic food including tomatoes, a variety of way too juicy fruit, and some egg.

TRENDY GUY

Once again I can only salute Hong-Kong for making little-boy versions of cool big-boy clothes. Like this super trendy neon yellow and grey Billabong board shorts.  These teamed with a grey long sleeve vest from Woolies' new RE kids collection is perfect for a not so sunny summers day.

FUNKY MONKEY

I'm sure I have written about my love for stripes on this blog before... A good place to grab a hand-full of stripy T-shirts for your boy is at Ackermans. Their baby clothes are really on-trend, and you can find whole lot of stuff that doesn't have some crazy TV character or slogan printed on. So today the little guy is being pulled around in his little red wagon wearing a funky striped T-shirt and matching finger toy thing, thinking it's the best day ever!

BEACH BABE

It's been a long time since I have posted I know, but my phone was stolen and so I was wondering the earth like a lost soul without a contact point or camera... but I'm back now with a better phone, camera and attitude! My little beach bum is looking the part with his Volcom inspired trunks, plain white vest and teething necklace which totally rounds off the look. Thank you Hong-Kong for making such awesome knock-offs at affordable prices.

RED, WHITE & BLUE

Not the most creative title I know, but these seems to be the theme colors for this week. That's fine by me - I like red, white & blue very much thank you. The onesie is form Pick n Pay - and they have many colors for not so many moneys, the cellphone is from my handbag, and that hat is a present from really good friends of ours.

FRENCH CONNECTION

The little man looks like he's been on the Riviera with his navy and blue striped shirt form Woollies, and denim short - all rolled up to make him look even more like a little hipster. I like this look so much I'm gonna wear the same thing next weekend - then we can be twinsies!

HAPPY FRIDAY

A double smile today, one from little man and the other from Edgars - score!

RABOBI RABOBI

Rabobi Rabobi yanga sizwe Rabobi
Mzeweki bo yangangana
Amanzi seko sebo tshabana
Ingozi yanga iRabobi

IN THE ARMY

What better to wear than camo pants for spending your days leopard crawling around the house. These pants were bought for our little soldier from the good old Woolies sale by his grandmother. It turns out to have been a great buy since the weather has surprised us with a mini-winter in the middle of spring this weekend. They are also great for protecting little knees from failed crawling attempts.

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

This little man has a stack of great t-shirts in his cupboard, with an ever growing collection of cool band t-shirts. He recently got this Rolling Stones t-shirt form his aunt - what a little rock n roller...

T. I DOUBLE GG. ER

That's Tigger all right. My sister in law has returned from Hong Kong with bags full of cool clothes for our little tigger man. So this is the first of a whole bunch of MIHK (Made in Hong Kong) labelled entries to come. Small man loved his outfit so much that he totally embraced Tiggers personality this morning and completely worn his mommy out. I need a small nap now.

OLD? NEW?

Welcome back favorite PJ's! Last year the little guy had a favorite pair of pajamas that looked just like these... my mom bought them and when I told her about how much we loved that pair, she went and bought another. But these pajamas must have been loved by many other little boys too, because when she went to Woollies, they only had a pair in a much bigger size left. Cleverly she bought that pair, and this is what you can see in the photo today! There is a lesson to learn here - if you like pajamas so much that you wear it straight from the tumble dryer, get a few more exactly the same.

WHITE WASH

Happy days! It's summer again (well minus a few crappy days last week). Nothing celebrates summer better than getting near naked and getting totally soaked. And no clothes will be as well worn as a nappy and a white vest.

MAN AT WORK

Little man in overall-blue pants and plain white t-shirt is hard at work with his wooden blocks today. I bought these pants from Ackerman's a little while back and got them on extra extra sale! This is the best shop for affordable and unusual baby clothes by far.

SUMMERTIME...

... and the livin's easy. It's so great to have warmer weather again, and to dress light. The little guy is casual cool in his blue onesie and simply nothing else. Just kicking back and playing with some toys.

SUMMER TIME...

DAY DREAMER

Summer is on it's way, and the sun's rays are shining through my window in the mornings again. it's so nice to look forward to bare feet and long sunny days! My husband took this beautiful sun-lit photo of the boy in his traveling onesie this morning... so sweet!

COOL CAT

The little guy is channeling some Sophiatown sophistication today with his brand new Steve Biko t-shirt from Sowearto (a gift from a pal of ours) and denim hat (also a gift form other friends of ours). We feel super lucky to have such great gift bearing friends!

RUN DMCUTE!

Okay - not my headline, but it was written about my boy in this outfit that I made him wear, so kinda mine to use I guess... This awesome t-shirt was a gift from some equally awesome friends. xxx

BACK TO BASICS

We are in the last few weeks of winter, and I'm trying to get the most wear out of the little guy's winter wardrobe (There is very little the he still fits into these days). Today he is wearing basic grey skinny jeans with two white vests layered over each other, and a high impact grey and red striped bib from Pick n Pay. PnP really has the most interesting selection of bibs for a bargain. I bought a whole bunch of basic white vests - the best buys in his whole wardrobe. The go over, under and with everything else he wears.

A CLEAN SLATE

A long cold winder has left me feeling uninspired, and not very creative. It's a struggle to get myself dressed these days, never mind getting the little guy to look good too. I'm missing warmer days, flip-flops and simple white onesies that go with everything... Today I tried to replicate those summer days with a white vest and pants, and Small Paul bib, which I don't think I have shown on this blog before. The bib was one of his daddy's buys - and a good one too. I'm really looking forward to summer, and shopping for it too!

GRANDPA CHIC

A good old friend of mine used to pride himself on his sense of style which he named "grandpa chic". Today my little guy celebrates this fashion by wearing a striped cardigan and chino's - both in tones of brown. Little man - you look like an old man...

PREPPY

It's been a while - I know. I'm  not even going to list all the reasons for not posting in a while - let's rather focus on the positive things in life, like mini-preppy cardigans for little boys. The little guy received this one from his aunty abroad - lucky guy! And a little birdy (or granny) told me that there is a whole bunch of fashion goodness coming to his closet from his funky aunty soon - can't wait!

IN THE DISTANT FUTURE

Flannel robot pajamas must be the most awesome sleepwear a little boy can dream of wearing, while he dreams of the distant future where robots rule the earth.

CHECK-CHECK

When I saw this check button up shirt in Edgards last week I was more than willing to spend more than I usually like to spend on baby clothes. (The shirt came with a t-shirt so for the two items together that price wasn't really bad, but I'm very selective of prints on t-shirts, so this one will not be worn by my little guy - but some other little guy out there will probably love receiving it.) The shirt looks just like one that his daddy wears often. Come to think of it, we are actually a family of check-shirt fanatics with a few options in each of our closets.

M*A*S*H

It's getting to the end of winter, and I decided to dig deep in the cupboards to find some long lost items, when I re-discovered this little gem... friends of ours gave us a set of three neckerchiefs and the little guy hasn't sported the camo-print one yet. It looked awesome with one of his well worn white t-shirts and a pair of grey skinny jeans from Jet, which we have been waiting for him to grow into. Lately he's been such a squirmy work that I have to wait for him to sleep to get a good photo.

LONG JOHN SILVER

Man it's cold out there. Cold enough for my hubby to wear his long john's, or as he likes to call them his LJ's today. The little man is also wearing LJ's today. In fact he's wearing two pairs of LJ's over each other, two vests and the snuggliest soft jacket from Mothercare. I wish that we could buy Mothercare clothes here, they are really some of the nicest baby clothing brands out there. I also wish I had LJ's on - my legs and feet are freezing!

ONE FISH, TWO FISH...

...orange fish dangling from your hoodie! This hoodie is everything that is awesome - stripy, red blue and white, and has toy fish sewn on for easy access. And to add to all this goodness is that fact that this was a gift given to my boy when he was just a new little baby, and we have waited patiently for eight months to wear it. I love gifts that give way after they were given!

SPORTS BILLY

This is the second time I have tried to take a good photo of this outfit, but failed to capture the casual cuteness of it. Oh well. Time to move on to another outfit...

TOP TO TOE

The little guy had to look good to celebrate Father's day on Sunday,so why not wear a new hat and new shoes. I must say - he really loved his hat's tassels, and was so cozy and warm that he had rosy cheeks all day long.

ALPINE BABY

It's been so long since my last post - please understand that a teething, grumpy baby isn't in any mood for modelling or photo shoots. Looks like we have survived tooth no.1 and no. 2... but I'm already scared for the remaining 18 baby teeth still to come! Here is the first smile I have seen in days, topped with a new hat bought from Baby City to celebrate his first tooth. I bought another great hat there which will make it's debut this weekend.

PAJAMA PARTY

I just had to buy these flannel pajamas for my boy! It makes him look like a little man, like a mini grown up. There is another set stashed away in the cupboard for another day...

OBSESSED WITH STRIPES

I have a bad addiction to stripes. Horizontal or vertical, fat or thin, and in any color combo, I just have to have stripes.

MR D

While perusing one of those baby shops during my pregnancy, my husband picked out this onesie for our boy. He looks totally bad-ass with his dummy bling around his neck, and the black trim on the sleeves and neck. I actually think that black isn't a bad color for boy clothes in the sea of baby blue.

BEACH BUM

We have been on holiday at the coast for the past week. It was great to wear flops and short-sleeves for a couple of days. The little guy mostly only wore a nappy and t-shirt, but I did manage to get him into some funky neon trunks and top for a photo. Just so you know that packing for the whole family takes me an entire week, so when I realised that the little guy didn't have any short I panicked! I rushed off to the shops to see if I can get any beach gear this time of year, and struck it lucky at the Ackermans sale where I bought the little man a bunch of shorts and top for only a few Rands.

A SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING

You know it a great week when you can dress your kid up like an animal two days in a row. He is so super soft and cuddly today I've got to be careful not to squeeze the life outta him! Thanx Woolworths - you've made my winter with your furry baby clothes.

MONKEY BUSINESS

Man it's cold out there! When it's cold like today I wish I had a full body fur coat on like our animal friends do. At least the little guy can stay warm in his full body monkey suit.

SMARTY PANTS

It surprising how grown up a baby can look when you dress him in little man's clothes... today he is wearing his fancy chino's with a teddy jersey which makes him look almost ready to go to work to earn his keep.