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| Miss M age 18 months (2006) |
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| C age 23 months (2011) |
Same dress. Same sweater. 5 years apart.
Now that is getting my money’s worth.
Easter 2011 Replay
April 26, 2011 1 Comment
In our family, we spend every Thanksgiving with J’s family and every Easter with mine. While we miss the other side when we are not with them, I do like the consistency this schedule gives my girls. J’s parents were actually up for a short visit this year so they were able to give the girls their Easter goodies before they left on Saturday morning. This was a nice bonus to the holiday.
On Sunday, we went to early, early mass with my folks. (They like the 8am mass). The only good thing about this time is that we live close enough to their church so that we were able to make it there in plenty of time and without rushing through the house to get ready. I had Miss M pick out her Easter dress the night before so there wouldn’t be any last minute quarrels (on my part) or frustrations (on both of our parts). I also ironed both mine and C’s outfits the night before so we were all set to go. Speaking of outfits, the only one who got a new Easter outfit this year was ME! C wore M’s hand me down, M wore a dress that I won from Little Pea and I was sick of wearing the same thing every Easter. I swear it looks like I have an Easter uniform in the old photos! So I found something I like on Land’s End and bought it. Winning!
We went to mass and then came back to our house for some delicious french toast casserole that J had prepared the night before and then cooked in the morning. It is awesome. While waiting for the french toast to finish baking, we did our egg hunt outdoors. It was fun. C was definitely getting more into the hunt this year and so we had to remind M to leave some eggs for her sister!
We don’t do a big easter basket filled with treats, etc for the girls. Instead we buy them each a Christian themed book and perhaps a chocolate bunny and that’s it. We try hard to keep it real simple and let the focus remain where it should be..the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.
After C’s afternoon nap, we returned to my folks place and had a lovely dinner. Although my side can be quite large with a total of 6 children (blended family) plus spouses and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it is every so often, as it was this year, that it is just us and my folks at Easter. It is a nice and simple gathering. My folks also gave everyone a lovely Easter card with some Easter goodies inside.
We are so blessed.
Here are a couple of pictures from the day:
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Anyone have their Easter hunt indoors?
BabyBond: A Nursing Mom’s Dream (Review & GIVEAWAY!!) NOW CLOSED!
April 7, 2011 109 Comments
With both of my girls, I was able to breastfeed them for the first full year of their lives. I was happy to do this and was thankful I was able to (and didn’t have the added expense of formula, etc). With Miss M, I never breastfed her in public. She was an October baby so we spent the greater part of that winter indoors anyway. If we were out, I would feed her in the car or just wait until we reached our destination. I would always go into another room if we were not at home. As a new mom, I was most comfortable nursing her this way and it worked fine.
When C arrived, I did not have the same luxury of staying indoors as I did with M. Now I had a 4 1/2 year old and it was summertime. My sister-in-law had bought me a nursing cover and I used that anytime we were at the park, etc. and C was hungry. I don’t remember there even being nursing covers when M was a baby. The cover was okay. C would get hot under it and sometimes bat at it instead of concentrating on eating. I was glad I had it but wasn’t completely satisfied using it.
When I was given the opportunity to review BabyBond, I jumped at the chance. It is a nursing cover, but one that doesn’t cover the baby! What a great idea! Even though my nursing days are very much behind me, I still wanted to see how the BabyBond would work. I even had a worthwhile accomplice to help me in my review, my niece Caley. She just became a new mom to a ten pound baby girl, “J”, a little over a month ago!
Here is her review of the Flex cover:
I think it is a really great concept. The thing that I like best about it is that the baby is not covered and you can have eye contact with the baby but you still are covered. The fabric is nice and soft compared to some of the other nursing covers I have seen, and it is smaller then most nursing covers so it would be easy to take with you all the time without having to worry about space. The detachable burp cloth is also really nice because it attaches and when you are out you won’t have to worry about dropping the burp cloth or anything like that. The only things I find negative would be that when you are getting baby to latch on it is less modest. Also you need to be sure you are wearing a nursing shirt for it to work or else your stomach will be exposed. I would definitely try it out, probably more in the house when I don’t want to be around people then in public because of the fact that I wouldn’t want the extra expense of buying a whole nursing wardrobe to be able to use this.
One thing that I would add to Caley’s review is that if you have shirts that will button open or a low v-neck, then you do not have to use a nursing shirt with it. Overall, I really wish I had known about BabyBond a couple of years ago, but I am glad that it is a real option for those moms that have to be on the go and those babies that hate being covered up.
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Note: the sash should actually be on the left shoulder
and not the right as shown in order
for the cover to be used properly.
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Back to School / Teething Bites
April 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
After a full week off of school for spring break, Miss M. was back in the trenches today. She woke up kinda groggy and complaining of a headache. I swear the minute the girl wakes up, she runs out of bed. Hence the headache and looking like she just ran into a wall. She told daddy that she was excited to go back to school and I think she enjoys it once she is there, but she told me she didn’t really want to go. I think the reason for her hesitation is because of what we did on Spring Break.
What did we do? Absolutely NOTHING. Miss M was quite content watching her Three’s Company when it was on. We also had some good friends visit us one day for a play date, it was J’s birthday another day, we had a visit from the awesome Aunt Mimi yet another day and for the life of me I can’t remember what we did the last two days of the week. All I know is that it was cold and definitely not feeling like spring. Also, we had another thing going on…
2 year molars. Beginning on Friday, C started to drool like the River Nile. I have never seen so much spit come out of one child. She has been having a runny nose since the time she was born. (It honestly seems like it..hence the name of the blog). But it had started to be more clear and hence another indication that fun was about to begin. C has a very different pain tolerance than Miss M. Meaning it is pretty much non existent. So when she awoke from her afternoon nap on Saturday feeling warm we knew that the party was here. The whining, always wants to be held, not wanting to eat party, that is.
We have been giving her tylenol and that has really helped. I found some of her old teething toys today too and she has been chomping on them. The problem with the two year molars is their location. They are kinda far back for her really to be able to chomp on something to soothe them. Any suggestions?
So that is what we have been up to. We did have some 60 degree weather on the weekend but it is Chicago…it could still snow. {shudder}
How was your Spring Break? Please don’t reply if you went on some awesome trip or did anything that could cause feelings of jealousy, anger, etc. (just kidding..)
Someday I will feel pretty again…
March 25, 2011 3 Comments
are the words I said to my husband a couple of nights ago before I went to bed. This week has been a long one. First Miss M had pink eye plus a hacking cough that makes her sound like she smokes a pack a day. Then C has a runny nose that is like a non stop faucet and screams every time you even go for a kleenex to wipe her face. Finally after Miss M’s pink eye was all better, guess who got it next? Yep, the queen. Whippee! I was being so extra careful in washing my hands, even to the point of being OCD and then, when her eyes seemed to be getting better…Wham! It got me. Of course, I have been fighting a cold the entire month of March it seems. So it was a probably a combination of factors. I tried to use M’s eye drops for the evening to see if it would help. My eye was so swollen and red the following morning I worried that I had actually made it worse! I hadn’t, but it motivated me enough to go to the doctor to get my own drops. When I compared the two drops, mine had 10% compared to M’s 3% solution. No wonder it didn’t make any difference.
So there I was applying my eye drops, putting on the Vicks Vapor Rub and not feeling so pretty. Oh well. Hope springs eternal and so our good health will return…soon…I hope?
For your Friday viewing pleasure and to start the weekend on a happy note…the musical stylings of M & C!
Sick Day
March 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Last night, M started to complain about her left eye hurting her. I went to check and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary so I told her to put a wet washcloth on it to see if that would help. Well, a half an hour later it was still bugging her. I went to check again and saw puss in her eye. Sure enough she had the tell tale sign of pink eye. Yuck. I was lucky enough to get her into our doctor and get the prescription for eye drops. I was able to get a couple drops in each eye last night and a couple more in her this morning. Side note: to get eye drops into your little ones eyes quickly and painlessly, have them lay on their back with their eyes closed. With their eyes close, administer the drops into the corner of each eye. Then have them blink several times. This works every time and a tip I learned from fellow parents.
So today is a sick day. We are a runny noses, sleepy, generally crabby bunch of girls. Yep, M, C and even I all have colds. I thought I would post the following video to cheer us up and hopefully put a smile on your face. It was taken using Photo Booth last Friday night when the girls were home alone with daddy.
While the cat’s away, the mice will play…