4 Years Of Eric

Happy 4th Birthday to my wonderful son Eric aka "Bobo"

Free Pampers Swaddlers & Cruisers with Dry Max!

Starting today, you can sign up to receive

your FREE 3-pack sample of the New Pampers

Swaddlers & Cruisers with Dry Max. Not

available in stores until March so sign up to

get your FREE 3-pack sample today at

www.pampers.com

Pampers to launch an all New high-performance diaper!

Pampers  Swaddlers   and   Cruisers  with   Dry  Max  are  the brand’s new high performance diapers and the biggest innovation for the Pampers brand in the last 25 years. Pampers Diapers invented the Dry Max technology and applied it to the current Swaddlers and Cruisers core, which allows the diaper to be thinner than before. This game-changing diaper – Pampers’ driest ever – helps lock wetness in for up to 12 hours and its less bulky design helps give flexibility and comfort – perfect for all of babies’ play.

The new diaper design also helps families reduce their impact on the environment by containing 10 percent less material weight. In fact, if current North American Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers users switched to the new Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max diaper, they could together throw away the weight of 1 billion less diapers every three years (based on 08/09 volume for Swaddlers/Cruisers).

Starting February12 January29th Pampers.com will be giving away a FREE 3-pack sample to parents....so don't forget to sign up! If getting a free 3 pack sample isn't sweet enough, if your sample includes a  Team USA diaper your  baby will WIN a year supply of diapers!

"LET THE GAMES BEGIN!"

Pampers have officially announced new Pampers Swaddlers & Cruisers with Dry Max and the brands partnership with 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Athletes: 2006 Olympic gold medal speedskater, Chad Hedrick and 2007 World Skeleton Champion, Noelle Pikus-Pace! To celebrate the launch of the brand’s first-ever high performance diaper, Pampers will be outfitting Team USA athletes and their families, with branded Team USA Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max as they head to Vancouver for the Olympic Winter Games. Pampers will be supplying  New Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max to all Team USA athletes traveling to Vancouver with their babies in tow.

Chad and Noelle will be documenting and sharing their experiences (along with their family’s experiences) from the Games in Vancouver, through photos and video that will be posted on Pampers.com.

Want your baby to be a part of the revolutionary New diaper launch? Parents will have the ability, beginning February 12, to upload a video of their baby crawling from left to right, and randomly selected videos will be compiled into a Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max "Baby Relay" commercial which will air during closing day of the Olympic Winter Games, giving babies a chance to showcase their own playful ability in the same forum as the most elite athletes.

The new Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max officially hits shelves in March!

Wordless Wednesday

KIDS THIS WEEK

Germ take over

As I sipped my wine and immersed my body deeper into the hot water filled tub, I finally felt peace, comfort and relaxation. I was proud. I have gotten through the longest and smelliest week of my life.  I felt challenged this week and although I felt so many moments  wanting to give up, I couldn't. I knew there was nobody else that was going to do it, I had to. I had to take care and  comfort all three of my children while all of us where sick with the stomach flu. The worst was watching them suffer. It broke my heart to feel so helpless. My husband and I had the worse symptoms for about 48hrs but still took a good week to get back to normal. Alexanders worst symptoms lasted for about 72 hrs but Jack and Eric were sick for a week. I often worried about them getting dehydrated. Jack at least drank the electrolytes but Eric was impossible to convince.  I easily did 30 loads of laundry. Everything and everybody got puked on including the babies car seat and the van.  Once everyone got to normal the real cleaning began. The carpets were shampooed, walls were scrubbed, mattresses were cleaned, 2 bottles of Lysol were used. Thank God it's over and I hope none of you get it. The only good things that came of of this is I lost a few pounds (and made up for rather quickly) and I did get a head start on spring cleaning.

Wordless Wednesday

EVEN SUPERHEROS NEED NAPS

Things I miss about my life before kids

Sure I love my life as a mommy and my children but I can't lie and say there aren't things I don't miss about my life before them. Here are some:

SLEEPING - Oh how I miss sleep. I have always loved to sleep and barely remember the times when sleeping 8-10 hours (in a row!) a night  was the norm. I'd be lucky to get that in 2 or 3 nights these days. Is it a wonder that I'm more bitchy these days.

EATING OUT - I use to eat out at restaurants on a daily basis. You know the ones that have white fabric tablecloths and wine glasses are already pre-set on tables. We still occasionally go out to dinner or lunch with the kids but it's not quite the same.  We stick to family-friendly restaurants that usually have paper for the kids to draw on instead of tablecloths. Usually eat really quickly before one of the kids starts getting antsy or cranky. Usually it's buffets so one of the kids don't start crying they don't like their food after waiting 20 + minutes for it. The hostesses almost always seats us in the back of the restaurant away from childless  patrons.   Eating out does give me a break from cooking but sometimes the effort of getting 3 kids out is such a pain that I'd rather just stay home and cook myself or do the drive-thru.

ROAD TRIPS - My husband and I use to be very spontaneous. A last minute decision to drive up north or leave the country was normal. We'd just leave and pick up a couple of toothbrushes on the way. We sometimes had no destination and just drive till we'd find some place that looked fun to stay. A day trip these days needs to be planned days before and enough packing you'd think we were leaving for a month. Not to mention a whole days worth of unpacking and laundry afterwards.

FREE TIME - Once upon a time I use to have lots of moments of boredom. I'm not sure what that words means these days but I do hear it often. It goes something like this .... "Mommy I'm booooored!".  I once had time for hobbies and a pedicure happened on a weekly basis now it needs to be planned months in advance and happens more like on a annual basis instead.

HAVING A SICK DAY - Not that I like being sick but these days calling in sick to work (for myself) means more work at home. I usually call in sick when my children are sick so really if I were to be sick, I'd be out of sick days anyways. Plus you can't call in sick from your kids so being sick does not mean less house work or child care. Most of the time when I'm sick, the kids and husband are sick too so it's more work taking care of them instead of myself. I wish I can take a "Benadryl Day". 

Although I miss those days sometimes, I wouldn't trade my current life for the world. After all no one said having children was easy....especially for a mom.

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Jack loves the design!

I was so excited when I received the cutest Eco-Friendly  LEG HUGGERS  from AGOO®  These cute leg warmers are made from Bamboo are Breathable, Antibacterial, UV Protective, Odor Resistant, Stain Resistant, Wicks Away Moisture, Grown without Pesticides, are Soft and Comfortable (Not to mention Super Cute!) I love that LEG HUGGERS are also made for boys in adorable boyish patterns.  Jack is 10 months old and is very active and the LEG HUGGERS  allow me to easily change his diaper as sleepers with snaps take way too long for his liking.  They are also great as an extra warm layer under pants and jumpers in the cold weather to keep his chubby little legs warm.

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