T minus 18 days ladies.

if you’re not excited about their return we’ll never hang out.

i just read about this on one of my favorite blogs and thought i’d pass it along

i know there are alot of passionate Readers out there in Tumblrland and thought you might want to participate. it sounds like a great opportunity to spread your love of reading!

you get 20 paperbacks in your choice of title (and there are some good ones!) to pass out to a community of people who are not already heavy readers.  i love the idea and i’m not even much of a reader myself.

World Book Night

Feb. 2: Words

the book is full of words - words about my baby, to my baby. about who he is today, who he can be tomorrow, and all the things we hope for him. about what he means to us, (some about his amazing father), and about where he comes from.

the papers on top are words - words that i jot down when i don’t have time to write in the book, words that i intend to transfer to this book. and i will, even if it’s right before his college graduation and it takes me 4 straight days and carpel tunnel to get them all in there.

i’m working on a way to justify $34 for baby overalls because i’m pretty sure we have to have these, they’re navy ticking stripe. i mean how cute would they be with our boat shoes?

Feb. 1: Your View Today

so i thought my view today was going to be our awesome playgroup but since i’m awesome and broke my toe on the way into the shower i can’t drive there. baby decided to nap at playgroup time anyway but, ugh, i was so looking forward to seeing those ladies and my favorite babies.

is it sad that i’m so used to broken toes that when it happened i was all “oh man! wait, maybe it’s not broken…. (insert nausea and blacking out) okay, yah, it’s broken. splint it up and move on.”

since a few people had asked, the bike baby seat we’re going with is the Topeak BabySeat II

after doing all my research this one came out miles ahead of the others. it’s the #1 recommendation from every bike specialist i’ve talked with and gets raves reviews and ratings from everyone else. it’s the safest one out there for your baby because of the back height, leg compartments, 6pt harness, wrap around mould, etc.

it’s also super convenient in that if i want to ride without him it just pops off the back, no tools necessary.

the only thing i’m curious about is the Britax baby seat that just came out. since it’s by a car seat maker it could be great or it could be a crap copout like they tend to do when they branch into other products just to slap their name on more stuff, ie. their strollers.

anyway, i haven’t even bought it yet but if you want to save yourself the research get the Topeak. i’ll follow up on this once we have it in use.

i usually don’t branch out beyond Green Machine (lovelovelove) but Nakeds were on sale the other day and coincidentally sold out of my fave so i grabbed this one

Naked Juice Orange Carrot

and it took me a minute to adjust to it but i love it! and even better - Roger loves it

so we have another winner. try it!

warning - you must like carrot for this, it’s heavy on the carrot flavor