My girl is 30 weeks old today.
Woot, two weeks in a row I posted on the right day.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Lily’s birth story
I just want to let you all know that Lily’s birth story is being featured by one of my bloggy friends Kelly from Our Lincoln Log. I’m honored to be one of the mothers featured in Kelly’s weekly birth story series.
Are your beauty products safe?
I know for a lot of us a better question would be “are your baby’s beauty products safe?” This is a great tool for those of us that are concerned about what we put on our bodies. The Skin Deep Safe cosmetics database has a toxic rating for just about every beauty product out there. They range from 0-10 with 10 being really toxic. It has products broke down into baby care, eye care, nail care, etc and then broken down further into subcategories.
I have only used this for baby items and was shocked and not so shocked by what I found so far. The Aveeno baby soap and shampoo that I have been using on Lily was rated a 3, I guess that’s not really so bad but I want better. I was not really surprised to find that just about all Johnson and Johnson products were over a 3 and most much higher. I didn’t see anything lower then a 3 but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I want to know why it is that products that are made specifically for our babies are harsh and toxic when they are labeled safe and gentle?
The nurse that facilitates my breastfeeding/mom support group gave us the web address last week and I wanted to share with you all. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.
So much changes in such a short time
Here are some comparisons that I just can’t get over. My girl is getting so big.
Lily is 29 weeks old here
Here’s she’s 7 weeks old
We bought this swing for her before she was born, this is the first time I’ve put her in it in months because she hated it before. Now she will tolerate it for a little while. She’s 27 weeks 6 days old.
1 week 6 days old
Here she’s 3 weeks old. In this picture you can’t really tell but that outfit is way too big for her. Its a newborn size.
Here she’s just under 19 weeks old
Kill me now, I don’t know if I can handle looking at these pictures in a year or two.
MckLinky Blog Hop- 7-14-09
I keep seeing this MckLinky logo around but didn’t take time to find out what it was all about till this week. It’s pretty cool. Since Mr. Linky is buggy lately this seems like a great replacement and improvement. Rather then have to track down blogs to add your link to like with Mr. Linky you write your post (and they are themed which I like) and link it to the MckLinky site. This week the theme is THREE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT ME
Hhhmmm I feel like I’m a pretty open book so I’m going to have to strain to come up with a measly three things.
1. In high school I worked in a very high end jewelry store. My Grandma worked there just about all my life and taught me how to string pearl necklaces. It was tedious work, but I loved it. I have pretty much worked nonstop since I was 15 years old. When Lily was first born and I was new to this whole stay at home Mom thing I felt sort of lazy and weird to not be “working”, I no longer feel that way. I work darn hard taking care of Lily.
2. I spent every Wednesday night at my Grandparents house up until high school and then sometimes even after. We were/are very close and I miss them and the rest of my family. This closeness is one reason I waited till I was 32 to have a baby. I now live 1500 miles away and I hate that Lily won’t have that closeness to family that I did growing up. But there is no way in hell I’m moving back to California, just no way. I guess this could have been two things but I’m still going to add a third official thing.
3. I’m a pack rat and lazy but mostly about mail. This adds up to a very messy computer desk. I always have mail stacked up under my monitor stand and on top of my tower. I pay everything online so I don’t know why I have so much dang mail anyway, but I do. Every so often I’ll stack all the mail up and toss some of it but put the rest in a box or a drawer till its so old that I know I won’t need it ever again and then toss it. Its such a waste of time and space, I really need to get better organized. By the way I’m lazy in general, not just about mail. 🙂
4. Because I want to throw this in, I’m obsessed with pictures of my beautiful girl. I really want to take better pictures so if anyone has any suggestions or knows of good websites I’m all ears and eyes. I can’t afford a great new camera so I’m stuck with what I have for now which is a Sony cyber-shot. It works pretty well but its no DSLR or anything. So because of this obsession here’s another picture or two of Lily.
