I’ve found a new line of toys that both of my boys absolutely love, although Froot Loop doesn’t seem to understand that they are Cocoa Puff’s toys and he gets first dibs on them. Being a 3 year old sure is tough!
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It came! My free sample box from Graze arrived yesterday! I was very excited to receive it and open it!
With Froot Loop, we opted to get a single, convertible car seat. After much agonizing, I chose the Graco MyRide 65. It served us very well. (see post HERE) When Cocoa Puff came on the scene, however, I wanted to go with an infant car seat that had a removable seat that could be transferred from car to car or car to stroller or car to floor or whatever.
It seems so quickly that babies go from just lying there to sitting up, then crawling! Then suddenly they're standing up and holding onto things. Soon, they're walking and it seems like just yesterday they couldn't even roll over... It also seems that there are so many toys out there that encourage babies to develop these skills. One of my favorites is the LeapFrog Musical Activity Center.
I found a product that used to be used quite frequently but for some reason, people stopped using! I had a strange rash that would go away, but then keep coming back no matter what I did. I would clear it up with tea tree oil, but then it came back a few weeks later. I’d put TTO on it again and it would go away but it would keep coming back! I did not know what else to try. I tried fungal creams, antibiotics, various essential oils, calamine lotion, benadryl, everything. Finally a friend of a friend suggested I look for gentian violet! And OH MY GOODNESS... IT WORKED!
I love to snack. My hips will prove that for you... I'm going to try Graze snacks for free!
Froot Loop loves his shapes. He was identifying and naming them very early. When I decided to introduce three dimensional shapes to him, I was looking for a set of geometric shapes that I could use to compare the 2D and 3D shapes (like the base of a cone is a circle, etc.), as well as compare volumes and be able to “build” with them too. I looked at tons of different sets and decided on these.
Froot Loop and I pick out some of his Amazon.com wish list items together for his last birthday. Since he was really close to reading and writing and already knew all his letters and sounds, we put these letter and number construction kits onto his list, and he got them for his birthday (Thanks, Great Grandma!)
One of my all time favorite things to play with was the pattern blocks we had in elementary school. I remember sitting in the back of the classroom and making things all the time. I made houses and dogs and stars and flowers and all sorts of fun things. I wanted to relive that experience with Froot Loop, so I put them on his Christmas list.
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