So my daughter has caught on to this crazy, the water bead craze that has plagued the youtube family fun channels so i took to Amazon to find me some of these beads
Water beads that i think were meant for decoration inside a vase of flowers
What do they look like?
They look like tiny beads and they swell up into 100 times the size when they are submerged in water
How long to they last
Once they have swelled to max capacity they do start to break down so maybe a day or two they will last, i cant speak for the orbeez quality but this is what i experienced with the china brand
I put the beads in a container and let them grow the day before - heres jack carrying the bucket of orbeeze to the pool
Filled up the pool with Water and gave the kids some collanders and they had a few hours of fun!
The kids love to get right into the water and feel the beads on their body
This is great for babies and kids of all age, hell i played in them for a bit too, they have such a cool sensation!
My HoneyBee (aka Bianca) loves all those Bumble Bee so of course i will HAVE to snag some of these! how adorable! perfect for keeping our planet clean with no plastic bags clogging up the oceans
I love the way these look, just as easy to wash these as it is to wash a plastic bib!, rinse and hang to dry! My mom use to wrap my sandwiches with Wax paper just like this!, easy transition and no waste!
I love the strap for easy carrying! and the slots on the side are great to keep things cool when place in a lunch bag with an ice pack
Drink in the Box
If your child loves drinking boxes, how cute are these! perfect size and will fit in their lunch bag perfectly, and you can make your own natural juices so you know exactly whats in that box (unlike the stores...)
Skip out on the paper napkins and put one of these adorable cloth napkins, choose the design that your child loves! another waste saver! love these, they are ECO friendly and!
This is an all in one container, comes with a stainless steal water bottle that has its own compartment, and an insulated carrying case gogreenlunchbox
Hope you enjoy this list, it def helped me figure out exactly what i am getting for my daughter when she starts school in September
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I am expecting a baby, its a little boy! we are going to name him Jack, his due date is Feb 28th 2014! I've been working with my midwives going to regular appointments and staying healthy for my little boy inside my belly. My midwives instruct me to fill out this form its a form for the hospital to per-register so i dont have to worry about it when i am frantically running into the hospital with full blown contractions, so i fill out the form and its sent away to cyber hospital space and everything is good to go! some time goes by and im still very much pregnant and i get a phone call! its the welcome wagon... they wanted to congratulate me on my new baby...i have not given birth yet, "oh?" says the woman on the phone.. "whens your due date?" i end the conversation as i am very upset at this point as to how this company even knows im expecting!
so the hospital is selling my information? because i know my midwives wouldnt breech my trust! isnt there some client confidentiality?
March 5th rolls around and i am very over due and ready to have this little guy, it is 5:30 in the morning and my contractions start aggresively! tears are running down my face as we call my mothers to watch my daughter, and my midwives to meet me at the hospital. We get there at 6:40am and Jack was delivered by 7:23am (yes that fast) the next hour or so is filled with skin to skin and breast feeding all the best first moments with my beautiful 7lb 4oz baby boy. My Door swings open and a strange face walks through it with a horribly filthy rolling luggage cart, (who is this woman? is she lost?) "Welcome Wagon!" she says in a cheery voice... now picture me with my son, i literally have not been out of the bed, i am naked from the waist down with a thin white sheet on my lap and my little boy in my arms and she starts pulling out all these papers and junk from her bag! she starts handing me things that i "NEED" to fill out? and showing me all these free sample products i should be excited about getting? including the frozen baby wipes because she didnt even have the decency to bring in her bag from the car on those frozen nights... i handed my son to my husband to get this over with and send her on her way. this is not my first experience with welcome wagon but this was the worst one...
How dare you come into my room that I paid for... i paid for this PRIVATE room and this stranger barges into my room while i am still half naked and all bloody and soiled from having my son.
How dare you make me put my son down to fill out your papers while ive been waiting 9 long months to hold this little boy.
How dare you invade MY PRIVACY! who do you people think you are? that you think you can do this?
This should be an optional thing and NO ONE should be walking into my private room unless you are wearing scrubs that say doctor, RN, RPN or MIDWIFE
If you stumble across this post please stand up for your privacy... there is nothing good that will come out of this company
YOU WILL BE BOMBARDED WITH TELEMARKETERS AND PEOPLE BUGGING YOU FOR THE MONTHS FOLLOWING YOUR CHILDS BIRTH
RESP sales men, OVER PRICED photo shoots...
Tell these people to GTFO, you have the right...
just remember these words when you enter that hospital... WELCOME WAGON... they are the devil... horribley insensitive company that should be shut down and does nothing for the community except spray free samples to people... samples that are bullshit and nobody really cares about.
They get paid from company to spread their samples... its just money... they dont give a crap about us... clearly
... p.s. i spoke to another mother and she received a sample of SAUSAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS EXPIRED THE DAY BEFORE!!! im not even joking
This year like every year i try to go inexpensive on my easter gifts, i traditionally go straight for the clearance isle and sale items as i can not justify spending too much money on an item when i know i can get it cheaper!
1. Buy the year before, i have been known to grab some clearance egg decorating kits the few days after Easter,. Normally they are around $3-$5 or more but if you get them on clearance you can find these guys for as low as $.50!
- Also small Easter toys, or plushies you can grab these guys on clearance and hide them in the house till the following year aswell!
2. Liquidation stores, Liquidation stores have been known to carry last years stock to certain stores around those specific holidays, my liquidation store happens to carry lots of target items from last season so i can find baskets, egg decoration kits, bubbles, easter decor at a fraction of the price! i grabbed a two pack of carrot bubbles for $.25 and i can easily split that up into the two baskets.
3. Dollar spots, as i do enjoy my dollar store i would probably head over to the target dollar spot or walmart as i feel the products might be a little bit better quailty? probably not but i would like to think so! there you can find easter theme items, colouring books, books, stationary, baskets!
4. bottom shelf, Some stores keep stock from the year before and put them on the shelf with the new stock and label them clearance! i go this princess basket for my daughter on the bottom shelf at party city and its virtually identical to this years mode just another shade of pink. HALF PRICE! regular $14 got it for $7
5. 1 expensive item per child, by expensive i don't really mean expensive... i allotted one $10-$15 dollar gift each. all the other items are under $3. buy 1 gift means they will have a real gift and not something that will probably break in the first week or be used up like bubbles of crayons and chalk. i'm a believe of being fair with my children so making sure their baskets are fairly similar in price will curve the mommy guilt hehe
for my daughters expensive gift i got her an Ariel princess boat toy $12.93
and for my son i got him a hot wheels bath toy $15
as much as i love showering my children with gifts i have to be realistic, Easter is a holiday that doesn't really warrant gifts and is about coming together as a family and remembering (if you are religious) your god and the sacrifice, so because of this i would not spend more then $25 on each child. i do enjoy the fantasy of a cute bunny coming to visit my children so i will encourage this tradition.
to see a video of all the items i put in my Easter basket please Click the link below!!
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Here is a fun video of the kids playing with them 
