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Goodbye crib. Hello toddler bed.
I don’t know if I’m ready for this or not, but here we go. Lily’s crib has officially been converted to a toddler bed.
Lily's Transformed Crib
She’s yet to see it as she’s been at grandmas for the past few days, but tonight will be her first night in it.
I fully expect her to be up all night un-organizing her room. She usually takes over an hour to go to sleep in her crib as she’s up jumping and playing. Now that she has the whole room, I think she’ll be up all night!
Spoiling Lily and getting great deals.
When you have a kid, you realize how expensive they can be. However, with a little bit of looking, you can find great deals.
Lily loves to swing, so we looked at getting her a swing for the back yard. We went back and forth on the decision until we found the one we wanted on the clearance shelf at Target. It was such a good deal that we couldn’t pass it up.
Lily and her swing.
Use your imagination, it’s not just a box.
When you get a package in the mail, or some new appliance, what does it come in? Does it come in a box? Or does it come in a spaceship?
The truth is, it’s not just a box, it’s whatever your imagination can think up.
I know that when we get a delivery from diapers.com, Lily gets excited for the box. She’s not too concerned with what’s in it unless it’s her.
Lily in a box.
One box can provide endless hours of entertainment and joy as it’s more than just a box. Much much more.
Do humidifiers cause our kids to get sick?
Do you have a humidifier in your kids room? When is the last time you cleaned it?
If you’re anything like us, it’s probably not been cleaned in a long time. And that’s not good.
Lily’s humidifier was a year old and I don’t think we ever cleaned it. We only use it in the winter and never thought twice about it. Turns out, it was supposed to be cleaned weekly. Weekly!
We ended up turning it off until we could get her a new one. Just turning it off seemed to make her sleep better. I could have been coincidence, but then again, you never know. It could have been blowing bad stuff into the air too.
Tips to giving medicine to your little ones.
We’ll Lily has completed her first round of medications. She had to take both eye drops and liquid meds and she did pretty well.
With the eye drops the trick was to turn her head to the left try to put them in the corner of her left eye, right by the tear duct. Once in, turn her head to the right and they’d slide right in. Then do the same for the other side.
This works really well except when your kid doesn’t want to be sitting there. Then it’s best to bribe them.
Did I just have a conversation at work about butt paste?
I never thought I’d be sitting at working have a conversation about butt paste with a co-worker, but it happened.
It all started because he said he had some on his shirt and it snowballed from there.
We talked about kinds of butt paste, diaper rash, how horrible it is, crying babies, pooping and all that fun stuff.
It’s amazing how much you learn after a year with a baby. I can now hold conversations on all sorts of baby topics!
Testing out SleepSacks with feet.
While at the store the other day, we noticed that SleepSacks now come with feet. It’s a way of allowing your little one to run around with a sleep sack on and, when it’s time for bed, you just put their little feet back into the SleepSack. So we bought one.
We’ve had it for a few weeks now and it’s working out quite nice. Lily can run around in it and doesn’t have to worry about falling flat on her face like with regular SleepSacks. When it’s time for bed, I pull her little feet out of the feet holes and she’s in a SleepSack. Her feet stay nice and warm too, just like they should.
Protecting the Christmas tree from Lily & the cats
Christmas is a fun time of the year, but having a little girl pulling ornaments off the tree, or taking it down, isn’t one of the fun parts.
That’s why we put a gate around our Christmas tree. We purchased a North States Superyard XT Gate Play Yard and wrapped it around the tree. It fits nicely and helps keep little ones from running into it.
However, it doesn’t stop little hands from reaching out and grabbing ornaments that are at her height. So each time she grabs something, I put it back on the tree, further up.
17 Unique and Fun Baby Halloween Costumes
What halloween costume are you getting for your little one this year? We’re going to be a little monkey and we’re going to be darn cute too.
If you haven’t decided on a Halloween costume for your baby yet, check out some of these unique and fun ideas!
A pea pod for your little sweet pea.
If you’re little one is a little bit more sassy, than punch it up a notch with a chili pepper costume!
Don’t want to go healthy? Then how about pizza!
What about a super hero? Like Batman! Or Batwoman.
This is the way we brush our teeth.
Baby Toothbrush
Lily is now getting her teeth brushed once a day and she love it.
Brushing our teeth has been integrated into our bedtime routine so that she gets use to having to do it.
Each night, after our nighttime bottle, we run over to the bathroom, get our toothbrush, and clean off our teeth. Lily knows exactly what’s going on and races to the bathroom every night. She’s sooo excited.
We first started out with a big plastic baby toothbrush, and then moved to a much smaller finger brush. The downside is that I have to stick my finger in her mouth, but after Dad gets bit once or twice, Dad learns how to do it.
