for those of you who follow us on facebook & instagram, you'll already know i've been asking mummy why i don't have a twin. i mean honestly, she could have planned it better. judah and i could have been twins and we would be running around in the garden jumping across sprinklers like Topsy & Tim.





the conversation i had with her was replayed by mum for all of instagram & facebook to see:

"Mummy, why don't I have a twin?"
"If I could've planned it, you would have - one trip to the hospital & all that!"
"So why didn't you plan it mummy? You should have planned it properly mummy!" 

2 days later 
"Will Judah and I be twins when we are older?"
"Um, no...it doesn't work like that.."
"Why not mummy? I want to be twins with Judah!"
"Sorry sweetie, you are his big sister...isn't that fun?"
"No. I want to be twins." 

1 week later in the car **crying**
"I want to be twins with Judah! You should have planned it mummy!"
"Sorry MH, I should have. Sorry."
"Can we be twins when we are bigger?"
"Sure thing darling, you can!"
**Beaming**
"Yes!"



now that the twinning is all sorted, i have moved on to the next thing on my wishlist. a baby sister. last week on thursday i informed mum that i wished to have a baby sister. she would be called amelia. the next day i changed my mind. she would be called isla. i spent the rest of the weekend harrassing her whilst she nursed her sore jaw after a wisdom tooth extraction. she showed me a screenshot on her phone. apparently after our photoshoot with nimz was shared on bella naija one picture went a little viral - well, 2 other sites published it. lets not make a man flu out of the common cold hey?
so, anyway, this picture was published on one page and attracted all sorts of random comments from the public. mummy says one of the comments has forbidden her from having anymore children. see below:

my mummy has a wishlist as long as her arm......stretched from here to zimbabwe via Dubai....and back again. i mean honestly - there's no end to the list of "must-haves" saved with reckless abandon on her numerous pinterest boards. the thing with mummy is she can get into anything. and i mean ANYTHING. just yesterday she was looking at lawn mowers with almost the same degree of excitement reserved for a zara coat whose price has come tumbling down to acceptable levels.

not only that, she has a knack for falling head over heels for items which always turn out to be top of the range. champagne taste, beer money? sounds about right to me.....but let's not build a campfire around that topic.

so what are mummy's current cravings? well here it goes....i'll start with one for me...
(click on the images to be taken to the relevant sites.)


1. mummy has been wanting a pair of red mary jane's for me for a while now. she tends to buy me one key pair of shoes & then fillers for casual days as i'm at school fulltime now. she always gets my mary jane's from la coqueta  as she loves the leather they use & the lightness of the shoes.



2. she is currently obsessed with ASOS WHITE. The peplum top teamed with culottes is a key look for Spring/Summer, and in this colourway she'll be able to pass them onto me in a few years time! win-win! the image on the asos website doesn't do them justice, so mummy picked this one of blogger Freddie Harrel showing how it's done!






3.  another key trend she's obsessing over this spring/summer is mules, and she's been drooling over this pair  of sandals since she saw one of her insta stalkees, Lisa Folawiyo, wearing them.  she then saw Solange rocking them too and decided it was a sign from the Lord.







she came back into her zone of operation when she discovered they were £380 and started praying ZARA would come up with the goods. They came up with the red ones below...nice, but not quite mules...unless she cuts off the slingbacks...and then topples over forwards from lack of support. maybe not. she does love them though so don't be surprised if you see them showing up in an outfit post soon!






4. back to me, and mummy is loving the collaborations uniqlo are doing lately. i am crazy for miffy, especially as our amazing neighbour gifted me a miffy library collection with 16 books to cheer me up whilst mummy was in Zim. these tees are perfect for teaming with dungarees / shorts / tutus on a spring / summer day.




5.  one for judah ofcourse! mummy is obsessed with little bowties for judah and came across this one from jcrew whilst surfing the web. she says it hits all the right notes for summer with it's pastel shades. let's see how long it takes judah to rip it off his neck....

No, it's not a typo. This is my week. Today is my birthday. And Sunday is my day too.....because in the UK, it's Mother's Day!  I mean honestly, when God smiles on me, he literally rains glitter on my head!! So...people, listen up. I have heard your cries from on high.....the "I don't know what to buy Tanaka, she has such specific tastes etc etc"ones.