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This isn’t technically from us, it is from the grandparents but we had to return the one they bought because it just wouldn’t have fit so we went and picked this one out today. I love it! It is so cute, and I love that it is wood instead of plastic. It’s at amazon for $370 but we got it at toys r us for just $120.

Don’t put your baby in a walker or exersaucer or if you have to limit it to 15 minutes at a time no more than twice a day. They develop the wrong muscles needed for walking and your baby would be better off exploring on the floor.
This way she can learn to move her body from rolling to crawling to standing and finally walking!

*photo credit: big stock photo

The title of this story is “Boy, 4, breaks into Texas store, plays with toys.” I had seen something briefly about this before so I clicked on the story thinking to myself…”did the boy purposefully break into the store or was he lost?” I watch the video and my suspicions were correct, it was a 4 year old African American child who had wandered out of his house in the middle of the night and thankfully walked into this store to play with the toys.
For one, the door was unlocked!!!! Doesn’t “breaking in” usually require breaking something to get in? Like a door or a window?! In the video the child obviously just goes to open the door and what do you know? It opens! Do you think if this had been a white child in an upscale neighborhood that the headlines would have claimed that he “broke in”? I think it probably would have said something like “Missing child found in a store at 3 a.m.” It is just so disturbing to me, but still not surprising, that at this day and age the media still just can’t get a clue.

Sorry this is so late but little E and I have been running around all day. I went to Walmart, which was a big mistake this time of year especially. I don’t know if anyone has seen that Walmart bingo thing but it is pretty funny and right on. Today I just had to laugh when I was there because this guy passed by me and he was telling his girlfriend “I don’t have any money because I have to pay my car payment, and my probation.” I don’t know, maybe I am delirious from being so tired but it was funny to me.

Okay so here is your mommy tip of the day.

This might sound odd but some of the best advice I got when my daughter was around 10 months of age was “lower your expectations” when it comes to annoying behavior. Teaching your child appropriate behavior is important but at this age you really can’t expect them to follow directions or to stop throwing things off the table (which was my problem.) So when your child is doing something that is getting on your nerves just say to yourself “this is normal.” Most of the time it is.

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When you make pasta use the multi-grain brands. It has important Omega-3’s which are good for your child’s brain.

*photo credit: big stock photo