Family Friday: Googly Eyes Puzzle
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My youngest loves puzzles, and some of his favorites are these with googly eyes.
These bright and colorful 48-piece puzzles all feature six fun googly eyes. They come in seven designs that appeal to kids, including animals, pirates, and vehicles.
They’re just right for my 4-year-old: He doesn’t need help putting them together, but they’re challenging enough to keep him busy for a while.
Googly Eyes puzzles are available at Amazon for under $15.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
DH’s uncle has a drive-travel heavy job and swung through town to see us this morning, which meant we got treated to breakfast AND now they’ve taken DS off to explore town and I’m on my work call in peace with the door open. Bliss.
Happy Friday all.
Agree the bedtime isn’t excessive, just not ideal (I’m most interested in strategies to manage the middle of the night)! We do usually do outdoor time after dinner – most days from about 6:45 – 7:30 or so. Then quiet playtime in his room, books, brush his teeth, and into the crib around 8pm. A couple more books, a song, and then he’s usually asleep ~8:20.
I will be on a girls’ trip for five days next week. (DH will hold down the fort.) This will be the first time I will be away from DS since last year. In previous years I did not prep DS about it beforehand, but now he’s 3.5 and will notice (and care) that I am not there when he comes home from school. Should I tell him in the days leading up to the trip that I will be gone for a while but I will come back? Or should I not say anything?
Random rant – A mom in my local group just asked for a babysitter because she needs to run an errand this weekend. “My husband will be there but he’s not really comfortable with babies, please let me know if you know a babysitter!”. My husband is far from perfect and we struggle with the balance of chores and me being the default parent, but I cannot imagine not being able to leave a 6-month old baby with their father for 3 hours on a weekend. I’m forever thankful I took up spinning as soon as my pelvic floor would allow and DH spent 2 hours alone every weekend with our newborn and he figured it out and can now spend a day with our kid without needing to hire a babysitter!
When did you consider it “safe” to move on from training underwear? 3.5 yo has been pt for 6 mos and is growing out of the Hanna training underwear, most accidents happen during nap at daycare. Hoping to be able to move on to something more Target-priced…
Is 1-2-3 Magic still current? I’m browsing a copy from the library and I like what I see, but some of it looks quite a bit different from some of the more recent parenting books I’ve heard of. It looks like it’s been around for quite a while – has it aged well?
Another sleep question –
Our 20 month old is napping for 2.5 hours at daycare, typically from 12:30 – 3:00. Daycare won’t wake him up earlier, but they will try to keep him awake longer before going down, so the total nap time is shorter even if the end time is the same.
Over the past month or so, bedtime has pushed back to after 8pm, and recently he’s also woke up a couple times in the middle of the night and been up for hours. I don’t love this because it cuts into our time in the evening, and we’re definitely losing a lot of sleep at night, since he’s awake and mad from about 1:30 – 3:30. Is there anything we can do about this without changing the nap schedule? Will he eventually start taking a shorter nap on his own and the night time sleep and bedtime will adjust? Just looking for a light at the end of the tunnel here…
Any tips for curling kids’ hair, especially fine (I think?) hair that doesn’t hold a curl easily? I’m pretty hopeless with hair, but last year I mastered the donut bun for my 6 year old’s dance recital. But this year they’re doing a Hawaiian dance and the hair has to be “half up, half down with lots of curls.” Argghh! I’ve tried to curl my daughter’s hair before just for fun and it didn’t work at all.
Also it’s hilarious to me how much history is repeating itself. I was a figure skater and my mom was hopeless with hair & makeup and it was such a source of embarrassment for me, and now here I am doing the same thing to my daughter. Sorry, kiddo…
Nighttime dryness: we’ve just had my kid (5) out of nighttime pullups for 5 nights. 4 were absolutely dry; on the fifth he peed HUGELY in the bed while asleep. I assume this means we should go back to pullups (hormonally not read for consistent nighttime dryness, basically) and try again in maybe a month, but I can believe I’m off-base and this is just part of the process for some reason. Advice from the hive?
Dark question for a Friday morning. How do you dress a toddler for a funeral?
My grandma is likely to pass soon; she’s 100 and has been frail for a few years, and had last rites administered this week so I’m assuming we’re close to the end. We’ll need to fly there which isn’t an issue other than hopefully getting flights last minute. I’m struggling with how to dress my 17 month old. All her clothes are bright and colorful. Do I get her a black dress to wear once? I’m reading online that it’s ok for kids not to wear black but she can’t exactly go in wearing a bright floral dress either. I’d like to order something this weekend so at least I have one thing taken care of.
Screaming into the void this morning: our preschooler daughter got off the waitlist yesterday for the first week of a summer camp in which she’s enrolled for the other seven weeks they offer. It’s one of those idyllic day camps at the private PreK-12 school that has a nice blend of nature and sports and art, and I logged on at 10am the Monday after Thanksgiving to get what I could for her because the camp always fills up on the first day of enrollment. We had until midnight last night to respond and secure her spot, and my husband said “no worries, I’ve got it.” I offered to do it for him because I had a down minute at work and my husband declined my help. Did he get it? No, of course he didn’t, and then he had a huge blowup this morning when he realized he didn’t because he was mad at himself and he made this morning really unpleasant for me and our kids.
It’s all going to be fine. She won’t be there for the full summer and we won’t get the full summer discount, but we have care for her that week that we lost out on. But honestly, wth?!