Postpartum/Nursing Tuesday: Peek-a-Boo Forest Soft Book

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My little one just told me that he is too big for his first soft book and would like to give it to another baby (sniff).

If you’re just starting your parenting journey, soft books are a great introduction to reading. This colorful and interactive book has fun flaps, multiple textures, and a rhyming story. This durable book is also completely washable, so let your baby explore this easy to hold (and chew) book with abandon!

This Peek-a-Boo Forest Soft Book is $13.99 at Target.

Sales of note for 9.10.24

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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
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  • 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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How do you all store/secure your good jewelry? I don’t have much (any?) that is truly irreplaceable from a financial perspective, but I do have some that is both nice and sentimental. The sentimental aspect makes it irreplaceable to me. For example, my deceased mother’s diamond earrings. Her gold wedding band (no stones). My deceased grandmother’s wedding band. I know that a safety depost box is one option. But I also like to wear this stuff sometimes, so having it my home is preferred. My biggest concern is securing it with respect to babysitters and nannies. Not that we’d invite anyone back that we don’t trust, but during the initial period where you’re getting to know someone, there is an element of risk. We recently had some friends have cash go missing with a new babysitter, and that got me thinking about it. Thanks!

My 7 year old has a cavity in her permanent molar, which has been in her mouth for less than 6 months. I feel like such a massive failure right now. Almost no kids get cavities in their permanent teeth at this age. I’m getting a second opinion and hopefully her first dentist is just being overly cautious and/or lying, because I’m not sure how I’ll live with being a parents whose kid is one of the fraction of a percent who needs fillings in permanent teeth at age 7.

Sigh, I posted recently about whether or not we should let our kid quit (reform Jewish) Sunday school and after an especially bad experience this past Sunday (wrestling her in the car while she screamed “I am NOT Jewish!”) we’ve decided not to make her do it again next year. It seems like the only thing we’re accomplishing is making her hate religion and I figure if we let her quit now there’s some chance she’ll express more interest as a older child or teen. We’re doing the right thing, right? She’s starting K next year and I figure that transition is hard enough without fighting a battle about religious school every Sunday morning. Plus she wants to do Girl Scouts and apparently wants to sign up for dance again (she was very lukewarm on dance until she saw the recital costume, and now she’s begging to do it again) and I really don’t want to overwhelm her with activities or deny her the chance to do things she cares about.

WWYD– DH has a conference in San Diego this fall. We have talked about going as a family for a while– I have a lot of family in the area who have not met DS due to Covid, and I have always liked the area. DS will be 2.5 at the time of the conference. If I went with DS, we would fly as a family on the Thursday or Friday the weekend before the conference, then I would fly home by myself with DS on Monday. We have still never flown with DS. Flight would be a 3.5-4 hour direct flight to the SEUS. I’m very nervous about the idea of traveling by myself with the toddler, and the length of time of the trip + the time change makes the logistics seem not worth it… but I have also realized that if I keep thinking this way, we will never travel with our toddler and maybe should just go for it? Has anyone done a similar trip and had a positive experience?

Advice needed – I am entitled to a 12 month maternity leave (Canada) and was planning to start work the first week of September (baby was born mid-September). My office goes pretty dead in the summer so it seemed like a good time to come back. A highly sought-after daycare just called and they have a spot in June, but we have to take it in June or it goes to someone else. If it were you, would you take the spot? I’m pretty sure my office would let me come back sooner, but we have a trip planned in July. Would it be confusing for baby to start daycare, then go on vacation, then go back to daycare? She would be 9 months in June, which seems to be peak separation anxiety, although she is super social right now and doesn’t seem to have stranger danger at 7 months. She does a mini-daycare one morning a week and seems to be enjoying that, but might feel differently about full-time care. Financially, it would make sense for me to start working sooner, but I might regret not taking my full leave. I’m not sure we can afford daycare if I’m not working and just getting the government mat leave stipend for the summer.

Havent figured out our summer vacation plans yet – looking for inspiration. Where are you going this summer? Our kids are 5 and 8. We’re going on a lake vacation at the end of summer, so that part is figured out. We also havent traveled much (just to see our families in different states), so we’re open to anything!

is there special kid nail polish remover?

This makes me very nostalgic because this was my now 5 year old’s favorite book for a long time when she was a baby.

We had a few books like this, but honestly, I hated reading them? Give me a proper story in a board book format. Cavaet – I didn’t have a chewer.