Finally Friday: Animal Bath Wrap
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I’ve been a bit at a loss for where to get longer hooded towels for my (tall!) four year old. I’ll admit, my search went like this: Carter’s, Lands’ End, Amazon… IT MUST NOT EXIST. But when we talked about the best towels on Corporette last week I learned not only that Pottery Barn makes one of the top towels for grown-ups, they also make great hooded towels for the littles. These babies are 50 x 27, and look amazing; they’re recommended for kiddos 3 and up. Pottery Barn Kids Animal Bath Wrap
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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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For a slightly cheaper option, Target has them as well, as does Kohls. Maybe not as nice as the PB ones, but my kids like them.
If you’re at all crafty, a quality bath towel and a quality hand towel can be sewn together to make an adorable hooded towel. A friend made me one for my baby shower and it is hands down the best – I quit using baby towels really early on because this one was so nice. Sans animal ears, naturally, but still adorable. I would assume Philanthropy Baby will be able to use the towel for some time.
I believe tutorials can be found on Pinterest.
Follow up on yesterday’s thread about sibling spacing, just found out I’m pregnant with number 2, quite unexpectedly! DS will be 19 months when baby is born if all goes well. Any working moms out there gone through this and have advice for having two under two? Budget-wise we can just barely squeeze in a second tuition at our current daycare, so that’s a small relief.
For the under three set, we have loved these Frenchie Mini Couture XL towels (40″x30″):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HB38BA?colid=1J45RNO899FHE&coliid=I2D1UKZU2UNKVS&redirect=true&ref_=br_it_dp_o_nS_ttl
Congrats to Two under Two! You have inspired me to ask for those with two or more, how far apart are your kiddos? I have a nine month old and am 35. We don’t want to wait too long for number 2, but are still up in the air on when exactly we will be ready. My daughter’s bday is in November, though, and I honestly would prefer not to have another baby born October/November/December, particularly because I was scarred after our last winter in Massachusetts with coming back from maternity leave and starting daycare in February with nearly constant blizzards. We aren’t quite ready yet, but figured we might start trying around her birthday. That means though I have a few months window of time around first birthday (not that far away!) to try and if I am not prego and do want to truly avoid baby birthday in those months, stop trying for a few months and then start trying again.
I’m trying to figure out if trying to avoid a late fall/early winter baby is ridiculous and if we are truly ready for another baby! Obviously only we really know the answer to the second part, but curious as to how others have spaced it out and how it works for them!
My (almost) 8 month old son eats purees like a champ. I give him finger foods at home when I am with him. Daycare recently asked me to bring in finger foods for him so they can start getting him used to eating regular foods. Honestly, I haven’t yet because the choking terrifies me and I would prefer to be present when he tries new foods. Since daycare has asked, I am contemplating sending in some foods for him. What do you all send to daycare around this age?
I hope I’m not posting too late in the day to get responses. Our nanny, who is just finishing up her second week with us — and, for what it’s worth, is wonderful with our seven-month-old — just told me she has a court date next month. Why? Because she’s been charged with reckless endangerment. For driving forty miles an hour over the speed limit. With her previous nanny family’s two little kids (baby and toddler) in the car.
I nearly had a heart attack. As a mother, I wanted to fire her on the spot. As an employment/civil rights attorney, I thought, Don’t discriminate! Innocent until proven guilty! So I just told her my husband and I would have to talk about it. Thankfully, I’m working from home today.
Thoughts? Am I crazy to think we shouldn’t just give her notice and start looking for another nanny immediately? We wouldn’t have hired her if we had known this. I get that the forty-miles-an-hour-over part may be inflated, but I find it really hard to believe that the incident didn’t happen at all.
Another thing: She says the parents of the kids are going to appear on her behalf. That makes me feel a tiny bit better, but not a lot, since all they know about what happened is what she told them. Would you call them (with her permission)? My husband spoke to the mother several weeks ago as a reference, of course, and she confirmed what the nanny said about why she was leaving — that they decided to put the kids in daycare. But maybe this was the real reason . . . ?