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Fizzy/Fuzzy Sidewalk Paint

Apr 13th, 2012
by G.
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We’re not big on lots of candy in our house, so over the last month, I started collecting non-sugary ideas for Capone’s Easter Basket.  I saw tutorial on Pintrest for Fizzy Sidewalk Paint, and decided that it would be the perfect addition to the Easter Basket.  As it turns out, I could have put nothing but chapstick and fizzy sidewalk paint in Capone’s basket because most everything else has sat untouched. 

It was super easy to make and now we’re waiting on today’s thunderstorm to wash away our sidewalk full of fizzy art, so we can start all over again next week. (more…)

Car Seat Emergency Information Stickers

Apr 12th, 2012
by G.
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I’ll be honest, 90% of my Pintrest pins may not get done in the next 3 months (or ever), but today I saw something on Pintrest that made me stop and do it right then.  It was a user uploaded photo about putting emergency contact information on a car seat.  The pinner’s explanation talked about most children in carseats being too young to disclose important information (name, address, parents, etc) to anyone much less a strange police officer/fire fighter.

So I went to the computer and threw together vital information that someone might need to know in the event that we ever had a wreck and Rakicy or I (or any other driver with my child in the car) was unable to communicate with rescue workers.  You can buy these nifty stickers online, but I simply printed them on regular paper, covered them with clear packing tape and taped ONE STICKER TO EACH SIDE OF EVERY CARSEAT WE OWN.

No fancy graphics or fonts.  Version 2 will be on brightly colored paper to stand out a little more, but this was a something that I thought was important enough to not wait until I had time to run to the store for craft supplies. Here’s my template below.  Steal it, write it on a post-it note, use it however you’d like.  This is one Pintrest idea that is worth doing right now.

Information for rescue workers to attach to your carseat

Only 8 lbs and other updates…

Apr 4th, 2012
by G.
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Random Updates from the start of the 3rd Trimester…

  • This baby appears to be smaller than Capone.  At the doctor this week, she said this one may only be 8 lbs at 40 weeks.  This is new territory for us as Capone may have been part baby elephant.  He was set to be 9.5 lbs if he had made it to 40 weeks and I hadn’t had some complications at the end.  We go for another sonogram in a few weeks and will have a better idea, but compared to Capone, I am measuring much closer to my due date.
  • No one ever told me that if you get Restless Legs during pregnancy, it will get worse with each pregnancy.  This one has been bad since about week 12.  Up until this point, I’d managed with extra B-12, but after 2 weeks of only sleeping about 3 hours a night, my doctor put me on medicine to help.  The medicine works great on my legs, but it also causes horrid reflux every time I lay down and nausea that rivals the worst of my morning sickness.  I have not yet decided if I would rather battle throwing up or not sleeping for the next 13 weeks, but it looks like I will be stuck with one or the other.
  • This baby still doesn’t have a name.  We have a short list, but there’s no budging.  I may seriously order our “say hi to the big brother” signs with multiple names and decide at the hospital.
  • This baby doesn’t yet have a room.  We’re working on it.  Hopefully it will be done before July.  Pictures may not happen until late this summer. Capone says that if we don’t finish it, the baby can sleep in his bed or his closet.
  • It seems that everyone who knows us has forgotten that we don’t use disposable diapers.  I can’t count the number of times already that I’ve refused offers for diapers and diaper coupons.  Ditto with the bottles.  One of the perks of cloth diapers was that they paid for themselves when Capone was about 6 months old.  This baby gets diapered basically for free.
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