You Live, You... Buy Stuff

Apparently I live and don't learn.

So I bought these. I'm nothing if not occasionally -- and usually mistakenly -- optimistic!













Well, boo. BOO, Sesame Street! They're weirdly gelatinous, don't mix very easily, don't finger paint on the wall of our tub very well, and they made my baby itch!

I'm trying to use it up, but I have to space out the use so my son doesn't look (and feel) like he's bathing with poison ivy.

Anyway, I also bought these and will post what I think of them after we've tried them out.

Color My Bath

Bunny likes colored water for his bath. Well, who wouldn't? On a whim, and because I know I would have loved this if they'd made such a thing back in the Jurassic when I was a child, we tried these:












The only negative was that I had to order them. No local stores carried it (or so I thought; I have since discovered that the brilliant people at Target do in fact carry these, along with more fun bath stuff. Big smoochies to whomever orders bath stuff for kids at Target!). If you are so unfortunate as to not have right-thinking Target orderers (I'm sure that's what they're called) taking care of you, order directly from Crayola. It was cheaper than ordering from a vendor on Amazon (Amazon doesn't sell it directly.).

Then, the other day we were at Walmart and they had these (ours does not carry the Crayola ones, BOO), so I thought, Why not? :












We figured if Sesame Street put their name on it, it couldn't be that bad, right? *annoying buzzer sound*

As Alanis so cleverly sang, you live, you learn.

We got the larger size, and am I glad we did, because it takes two or three tablets to get any real color, even though the tablets are larger than the Crayola ones. I also didn't like that the Sesame Street ones had a funky powder that made me cough and when I picked up a tablet to make it dissolve faster (if you have a toddler, you know why I did this), it stained my fingers. It came off later, but still. Crayola's don't stain.

Anyway, my verdict: Crayola - YAY, Sesame Street - meh.

Spark of Heaven

Spark by Skip Hop












Okay, that's overstating it, but we recently got this new diaper bag that is much smaller than the last one we had, but it holds what we need! (Snacks, cups, diapers, Pull-Ups, wipes, a change of clothes, toys, and books...) I can't tell you how nice it is to not have to maneuver a huge suitcase between tables at a restaurant while everyone stares.

Moonwalking

I really like this book that we read to Bunny most nights as part of his bedtime routine. Fortunately, he also likes it!











It's I Took the Moon for a Walk by Carolyn Curtis, illustrated by Alison Jay. It's a nice, calming story told in rhyme, but it's not cloying or precious at all. And the illustrations are great; make sure you look at all the background pictures, there are fun little details you'll miss if you don't look.

Out, Out, Damn Spot!

Prescriptives Camouflage Cream

If you need a concealer, this one is great. It hides dark circles, blemishes, any imperfections at all -- well, okay, within reason, it blends in completely, and it stays on. Buy with confidence!

It's that time...

We bought this album to have something for Bunny that wasn't too annoying for us, and... we got it! Most of the songs are really good, though some are too short, and one is questionable for little kids (The Ninjas seems guaranteed to give some little ones nightmares).

I love love love Pollywog in a Bog. Just ask my husband.

On second thought, don't.

It's a Disposable World... Or Renewable? Something, Anyway.

Okay, y'all, I know that we as a world have got to stop with the disposable everything, BUT...

We got these disposable sippy cups for our vacation, and were they ever little colorful life-savers! (But not the kind you eat.) Bunny took to them right away PLUS they don't leak easily, which was a huge bonus because he loves loves loves to turn sippy cups over and watch whatever liquid is in them drip out. Fun for everyone! Oh yeah, and since we were in the car for LONG periods of time, Bunny also enjoyed throwing them away from himself, of course also AWAY from me, so with these, I could just pull out another one. Ha! Take that, puny infant!

Anyway, they're also BPA-free! Score!













You can get them here or here or do what I did and forget you already ordered them from one place and order them from the other one too.

It actually worked out in our favor, because some madcap dictator at The First Years decided that matching lids and cups are just too tragically dull, darling, and so last year! BUT by buying both sets we neatly (if accidentally) circumvented this zaniness and ended up with mostly matching cups and lids! One set has six cups and one has seven so we're off by one, but for people who prefer things to match, that's not bad.

What, me boring?