Since Emily and I have posted eleventybillion times about how much we luuuurve Lands’ End, I wanted to let you know about their Friends & Family sale! Friday-Monday April 8-11, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g is 30% and FREE SHIPPING!! AND, since you, our readers are SUPER-SPECIAL, you can get this discount one day early, starting TOMORROW April 7th, by shopping thru this link: http://bit.ly/LEFamilyFriendsPreview HOLLA!
What are YOU gonna get? I am gonna get Sophie another swimsuit. She already has this one I posted about earlier, but she needs two for all the pool-hopping we will do this summer!
I might also take this opportunity to get some more totes for end of the year teacher gifts. They were a big hit at Christmas and since they come in so many varieties, I might just do it again!
Happy shopping!
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If I am super-lucky and post this fast enough, Lands’ End will give me one of their rope-handled totes. But I would’ve posted it anyways cause I love to spread the Lands’ End love around!
Jonah, who has, like his sister, inherited my vanity, is having a HUGE hair crisis. And as his personal stylist, I am befuddled about what to do. Ok fine, it’s not bothering him in the slightest. He pretty much just cares about unfettered access to my chestal region and not sitting in his own excrement. But his hair, my friends, is driving ME a little nutty! I need your advice!
‘Cause baby’s got ‘burns. SIDEburns. See?
While he is totally adorable (duh), and I loooove the fact that he has any hair at all, it’s a little loooong around the ears. It’s all “business in the front, party on the sides”. And it’s kinda freaking me out! The sideburns have gotten way ahead of the rest of his hair!
It looks ridiculous when I tuck them behind his ears:
But it also looks crazy when I just let them hang wild and free:
Should I cut them? Would that be criminal? Or let them grow even if he starts to look like the infant version of Martin Van Buren? (8th President of the United States, people!)
Whaddya think? Help my baby’s HAIRZ! (I’m talkin’ to you, UP!)
Saturday I took some special time out to spend just with Joshua. I think it’s safe to say that I haven’t had any alone time with Joshua (except for in the doctor’s office) since well before the baby was born! So, I decided to treat us both to an afternoon at our local children’s museum – the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. (Preceded by lunch and followed by ice cream – holla!) I hadn’t even seen their new zoo that was unveiled in September (plus the otters are going on exchange program to other zoos so I wanted to see them again, they are so funny! But don’t worry, new otters will be coming to replace them), and I really wanted to check out their featured exhibit – It’s Electric! – that runs through the first week of May. The exhibit celebrates 100 years of our local power company, Dayton Power & Light and gives kids the opportunity to explore the history of electricity as well as look at what’s in store for electricity in the future.
The exhibit was really hands-on and fun! There were tons of “Try It” – cause and effect things for Joshua to do that demonstrate electricity’s origins and effects. And, I must say, it explained the phenomenon of “static” way better than I could! He got to make sparks, produce static electricity, and make all kinds of things light up!
He wasn’t as interested in the history as I was but I really enjoyed the period desks with telegraph machines to tap out morse code, photos of electricity used in our area throughout the years, and all kinds of crazy old-fashioned early electric devices (like the “Electrostatic bath” – yikes!).
Joshua tapping out some morse code
He was mostly interested in the magnets, the static, the lights, the cranks, the wheels and the fun of learning about what made it all happen. It was a lot of really cool science and learning packed into one exhibit. I was super-impressed and Joshua loved it!
We had a great time at the Boonshoft and especially at the It’s Electric exhibit. If your kiddos have spring break coming up this month or you have a few hours on the weekend, I highly recommend checking it out!
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The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery sponsored this post. I paid our admission to the museum and all opinions about our time there are completely my own.
