Family Friday: Tutu Dress
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Here’s a dress any little ballerina will absolutely love!
My daughter loves poofy, twirly dresses, and this one is just about perfect. The top and skirt lining are made from 100% cotton and the mesh from recycled polyester.
It comes in four holiday-ready colors (pomegranate, rose, navy, and spruce) that are perfect for photos, festive gatherings, and of course, the ballet.
This Tutu Dress is available at Primary for $38. It comes in sizes 2–12.
P.S. Happy Diwali to those who celebrate! (Apologies for this belated message!)
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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Oh man, this is the type of dress that makes me want to have a little girl :-) But if I went to all that trouble, I’d probably have a girl who hated dresses.
I’m in the middle of a third-trimester nesting frenzy. Two questions: first; what are your greatest hits for freezer meals? I’m about to look at the Pinch of Yum list.
And second, is the expectation that when grandparents come to help, they’ll share whatever we’re having from the freezer stash for lunch and dinner, if they’re staying at our house? Each grandmother will come up for probably a week and stay in our basement; one of them will be here with my toddler while my husband and I are in the hospital, if that matters. And if that’s the case, is it rude for me to keep making the kind of dishes we like to eat without bearing in mind their preferences? We eat pretty differently from them, generally speaking.
Typing this out makes me think yes, of course, how tacky to think they should make or order their own lunch and dinner while they’re here. My MIL came to help with childcare during a health crisis earlier this year and shared the meal train delivery every night while my kid was in daycare and MIL was hanging around the house with magazines and crosswords during the day, which was a bit of a surprise. I’d happily order groceries or give them our DoorDash password. I’m also not planning on a ton of family meals with grandmothers at the table during the first two or three weeks postpartum with twins. But there’s not a gracious way to say, “Hey, I’m nursing and exhausted so I’m going to eat this entire tray of mac and cheese that I made for this purpose two months ago, please figure out something else for yourself so we have more in the freezer reserves after you leave. Here’s our credit card; there’s a pizza place and a Giant five minutes away, both deliver.” Right?
I was able to get my son (5) a vaccine appointment for Monday at Walgreens! He will get his second dose on 11/29 and be fully vaccinated by our holiday travel!!
One more kiddo to go but I am so excited. The unfortunate thing is that he hates shots so I have no idea how it will go to do it at Walgreens. Maybe way better since it’s a totally different place?
We are moving to a new house in late January. My son, 28 months, is currently still in a crib. Would the move be a good time to switch to a twin bed? Or would it be bad to do both transitions at once?
Ok, so after many years of considering it, I’m strongly leaning towards getting a breast augmentation. One question that’s nagging me is how to explain this to the kids. They’re 6 and 8, and we’ve always been pretty big on openly answering questions as factually as possible, and of course they’re curious. They’re going to ask why I had this done.
To be honest, it’s not purely a cosmetic thing; I’ve always been super-small, and felt like I lost what little fullness and “feel” I had after pregnancy, so a lot of it is about that. But I obviously don’t want to get into that with them. I also don’t want to say something about wanting to look better or feel better, since that seems to imply there was something wrong and we should just fix our bodies instead of learning to love them and that sort of thing. I admit I’m also not super crazy about the fact that they’re old enough to remember so at some point they’ll look back in this and realize mom got a b00b job, though that’s probably unavoidable.
So, ideas for how to phrase this in an honest but not too honest way?
Hi ladies- where are your go-to places for professional (business casual leaning toward business professional) maternity clothes? Last time I was pregnant I had luck with Gap, but it looks like they’ve basically stopped selling the more business-oriented maternity clothes. I am also going to be in a slightly dressier office this time around. I’m starting a new job at 20 weeks pregnant and I want to make a good impression.
Does anyone have experience with pediatric physical therapy evaluations and would be willing to share their experiences? Specifically, PT experience with 2.5 ish (or similarly aged) child who is walking and talking and otherwise seemingly neurotypical. And by “experience” I mean, what did they do at an appointment and what did you do at home or what did your child’s teachers do. My son is 2.5 and we had his parent teacher conference this week where the teacher suggested getting an evaluation due to a few things she is seeing – he is not jumping yet (he will crouch down and then shoot up to a standing position, but does not get his feet off of the ground), isn’t really running (just walks very, very fast), and sometimes walks on the inside of one of his feet. DH and I had noticed the first to things (and maybe once saw the inside foot walking) but it hadn’t really raised any red flags to us.
Based on the teacher’s recommendation, we have set up appointments with the pediatric PT recommended by the school and the PT recommended by our pediatrician. So, we are not against PT at all. However, I’m trying to just learn more about it and what a PT would do at an evaluation or appointment. What I am finding online is examples of pediatric PT that is focused on babies not crawling yet, babies who are wearing helmets, and children who are delayed walkers, but not my scenario or things like it. And this makes sense, because these other items come up far more frequently. So, TIA for any experiences you can share!
If you’re achy and feverish from your booster, it’s probably okay to self-medicate with kitkats from your kid’s halloween stash, right? I think so.
WWYD? We took foster placement of twins who are now 9 months, and it looks like we will adopt them. They do not have first names. They have nicknames, given by a distant relative in a hearing a few days after they were born. We’re calling them by those nicknames ATM. My question is: would you change their names when you adopt? To be clear: we have to change their names either way. It will just be to their nicknames or something else. I like their nicknames fine I just wonder if it will be weird telling them “oh someone you’ve never met named you.” I’m know I’m overthinking this. I’m just curious your opinions.
How do you make your kid more loving to their sibling? Is that possible?
I may be overthinking this but I feel like my daughter (older kid) is just not super into her brother. He’s 3 and she’s almost 6 and he is so sweet to her and she seems to alternate between just tolerating him and actively messing with him just for fun. I know some of this is normal and will be a thing when they’re teens but now seems a bit young still? They do play together too at times. I think I’m just paranoid about her being an a**h*le to him. I’m also an only child so have no real reference for what’s normal. We don’t have a super large family though so I really want to encourage them to be close. Other siblings I see seem to get along better, but it could also be that their parents are better at their “PR” than I am. Even typing this out makes me feel a little nuts. Tips? Thoughts?
I just got almost the exact same dress from Target for my 6 yo. Only $20 and is very soft and lovely!
https://www.target.com/p/girls-39-long-sleeve-cozy-tulle-dress-cat-38-jack-8482-red-s/-/A-82819714?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000086349142&CPNG=PLA_Kids%2BShopping_Traffic_Local_Traffic%7CKids_Ecomm_AA&adgroup=SC_Kids&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=c&location=9025147&targetid=pla-894805311789&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrJOMBhCZARIsAGEd4VG-U9_ug_FldBn2XJj525UNUB74W_P8K-oVFHgBz-gjgTuZePqHDPcaAhRNEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds