When Ethan was a toddler we still had season tickets to our local hockey team. He could care less about the action on the ice so we tried to find things we could bring for him to play with. At some point we stumbled upon replacement dome hockey players and we picked up a set [...]
Congratulations to Janet and Sandra for winning our contest to guess Jillians weight and length. All our friends and family lost out because we expected Jillian to be the same size as her siblings (all over 9 lbs). What a surprise that she weighed in at under 8! Final measurements are 7 lbs 13 oz, [...]
Jamie was given a Melissa & Doug Deluxe 27-Piece Nina Ballerina Magnetic Dress-Up set as a birthday present and its so cute that we are giving away a new set to a lucky reader as well! Here is how to enter: Leave a comment on this post mentioning another contest that we are currently holding [...]
Have I ever mentioned that I love when people send me free things for the blog ? Not everything we get is super fun and makes the kids giddy but sometimes we get something we really NEED and this is the case with our latest gift and that made me pretty happy! We received the [...]
Tomorrow we will be bring a new baby girl into this world. We’ll be doing our last minute mad dash cleaning and packing tonight. Tomorrow night I will post pictures here on the site, but if you can’t wait that long you can follow me on twitter. I’ll be sending updates from my cell phone [...]
Ben is four and has his own unique signature. He is making some great progress with writing his name but there is lots of room for improvement (especially with his Ns and his full name)! He is very independent and doesn’t seem to want help from me so I am giving him his space and [...]
I am all for easy entertaining so I was eager to try the new line of Pillsbury Savorings Flaky Pastry Bites frozen appetizers (so eager that John and I tried them out minus the entertaining). They make Cheese and Spinach, Mozzarella and Pepperoni, and Buffalo Style Chicken. We chose to try out the Cheese and [...]
I was very excited when I first saw the Siliskin glass baby bottle by Silikids. I am trying to make safer choices with the products my kids use and with our new baby arriving shortly I knew I had to replace our old plastic bottles. I think glass bottles will be making a big comeback [...]
I love that we’ve made the switch to stainless bottles for our family! After my recent review of the Earthlust bottles I am excited to have found another great option that I hadn’t heard of before. BILT makes bottles for both adults and kids and they might be just what you’ve been looking for! BILT’s [...]
Potty training can seem like such a huge deal at times. I have gotten two boys potty trained and managed to live through it, hopefully the two girls will be even easier! I take any help I can get though so I gladly accepted the Parent Bloggers Network’s offer to review the girls version of [...]






