Makeup & Beauty Monday: Hold it Together Blow Dry Clips
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My hair is incredibly thick, and wavier in the back than the front. That combination makes it very time consuming to blowdry straight. However, I do find that like most things, the more time I put in, the better the results. If I don’t take the time needed, then it puffs back up and my hair ends up in a ponytail by the end of the day. I’ve always been fascinated by the clips they use on my hair when I get it cut and/or dried professionally. They hold my thick hair out of the way and they don’t leave a crease. These clips have 279 reviews at Sephora (almost all positive) and promise to do just that. They are $10 for 4. Hold it Together Blow Dry Clips
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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Is it common for babies to have a lot of gas when they start solids? My 6 month old has typically been a great sleeper – for the last couple months she was sleeping 11-12 hours straight at night (before that, she’d wake to feed once or twice, but go right back down). Now she’s suddenly waking up about three hours after she goes to sleep (which is right around the time DH and I are going to bed) with what I’m pretty sure are gas pains. She wakes up SCREAMING, which is unusual for her – normally she wakes up happy and only fusses if we don’t get her promptly. So she wakes up super mad and crying and it takes us several hours and multiple milk feedings to settle her back to bed. Once we get her back down, she sleeps through til morning, but it’s really cut into our night. We’ve been giving her gas drops and they help a bit but not that much. We started solids a couple weeks ago, and this started happening shortly thereafter. We haven’t given her any stereotypically “gassy” foods – so far we’ve done pureed squash, oat ceareal, yogurt, avocado and unsweeted applesauce. I’m scared to move onto things like broccoli and beans if she’s having this much reaction to the more neutral foods. Any advice? Or reassurance this will get better on its own soon?
April, we have the same hair!
Super easy one to start the week. There was some discussion last week about wheeled transport for the toddler crowd. My almost 2YO is (I think) ready for a scooter. He’s really interested in them, picks them up at the playground and tries to use them, etc. Should I buy the three wheeled Radio Flyer one I see everywhere or just buy the two wheeled micro mini and figure he’ll get used to it soon? Thanks!
I have these clips and they’re great. I did find much cheaper identical ones at Marshall’s, however. The only difference is the Sephora logo.
My 5.5 year old has no interest in learning to ride her bike. She has a scooter (Micro Mini) and loves it, but refuses to touch her bike. She also has had a balance bike from the age of 2, and has never had any interest in that either. She was okay on tricycles at daycare but they were never her first pick, and half the time she just played in the dirt instead.
I need to make her learn this, right? How do I do that? Or do I lay off for a while and see if she wants to try again in the Spring? (And what if she refuses to learn then?) Am I missing some magical trick to making a bike appealing?
I posted a couple of months ago that DD was refusing her high chair. Lots of you suggested the tripp trapp chair which worked for a few weeks but she’s back to fighting us and pushing out from the table and refusing to eat. We also have a small kids table and have tried that but it doesn’t help. At daycare, I know she often stands while she eats but she isn’t interested in that at her small table either. Has anyone else dealt with this? Do I just hope it’s a phase and try to get in food in her where I can? She’s 20 mo and walked late due to delays so I wonder if this is partly because she just wants to walk and explore but it’s maddening.
PSA to Rothys fans: they now offer the loafer in girls’ sizes, at a much lower price point than the adult styles. Mini-me is now rocking the camo loafers. They are so stinking adorable and go with just about everything, even shorts.
Thanks to encouragement from this awesome community, my husband, 1.5yr old and I are headed to The French Riviera this week! Any tips for plane travel or jet lag adjustment? Or anything specific to the area? We’re thinking of trying to keep toddler on east coast time so we can enjoy some dinners out! Thanks, ladies!
My daughter is very shy – enjoys going to school but definitely prefers to be inside her comfort zone (she’s 3 1/2). Her teacher suggested signing her up for an after school activity with other kids from her class, which I did, but she has already decided she DOES NOT WANT to do this.
I feel like getting her to go out of her comfort zone for one class a week could be good for her, but I don’t want to push it. It’s also just a fun toddler gymnastics class so shouldn’t be much pressure. Advice on getting nervous kids to try new activities from your own experiences? If she tries it and hates it I’m happy to let her drop out, but I’d love to convince her to give it a go. So far my brainstorming bribes doesn’t seem to have worked…
Talk to me about holiday travel with kids. Last year baby was 1 month so we just kept her home. Both of our families live a plane ride away, and everything is still at our grandparent level so we have FIVE family sides that have events we “need” to attend. I’m exhausted just thinking about it, and of course my MIL is pitching a fit about getting Christmas Eve, and nothing else will do at all. We don’t have many vacation days to burn on this and of course everything is crazy expensive around Thanksgiving/Christmas.
Part of me wants to just say we’re staying home again this year and people can come to us but I don’t think husband would go for it. He wants to appease his mom just because she gave him the major guilt trip about his grandma being old (but my remaining living grandparents are old too!) so she should get whatever she wants. UGH.
What (if any) so you think is the optimal age to start daycare? I want my daughter with other kids by age 2 or so, but am debating nanny vs daycare before then. She’ll have a parent home with her until age 1 , so it’s really just 12-24 months that we need to decide about. Assume cost won’t be the deciding factor.
So, I’ve come to terms with the idea that my daughter probably isn’t going to be one of those kids who wakes up one day and decides she is going to wear underwear and use the potty. And now that all of our summer travels are nearly over, it seems time to step up the potty training (as in put in actual effort beyond “Do you want to sit on your potty?”.) Kiddo recently took an interest in her BFF’s Mickey underwear at school. Kiddo is 2.5 (closer to 3). She sits on the potty 4 times per day at school and sometimes at home. She’s never actually gone at home, but has gone a couple times at school with no regular pattern that I can see. Any tips on potty training? At this point, I kind of refuse to devote all the time to reading a book about it. Maybe if I’m desperate down the road. Thanks!
What’s the best app to use to track newborn feedings, wet/poopy diapers, sleep habits, etc?
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HELP!?
Has anyone experienced this: in the last 10 days (Friday a week ago to this AM) my little one has puked (like a lot) 7 times, 5 of the 7 have been in his car seat! (my lovely husband is getting really good at installing / uninstalling car seat). Some more facts:
– 13 months old
– Switched to the upright rear facing car seat about 1 week before the throw up started.
– he went “back” to daycare about 2 weeks before the puking started (pointing to a run of the mill toddlers sharing germs sickness)
– he was at the same daycare for 2.5 months from 8 months to 10.5 months before being home with dad for 2 months over the summer**
– some evening pukes / some morning
– teething pretty heavily
– went to the doctor on day 3 of puking – nothing remarkable in terms of symptoms
– no fever (at the time of any of the incidents)
– most recent incident was after 4 “healthy” days, including the weekend where he was finally back to normal in terms of an enthusiastic appetite!
– we have started putting a plastic bid overtop of car seat straps to protect it! (though that doesn’t help when he protectiles over the side!
– all car pukes have been 5-15 mins from home (our commute by car is only about 10 mins)
SOOOO – we are going to go back to the doctor, I *hope* it is just run of the mill daycare bugs and not somethimg more serious. In the meantime: help me if anyone has any tips for handling car trips – has anyone experienced this persistent problem in the car? Give him toys? don’t give him toys? drink water?? He can’t be manipulative enough yet to think that puking will get him out of daycare?
** hooray for Dad’s taking parental leave too!!