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When you have a teether (the baby, not the toys) have you ever found a cold wet washcloth to be helpful?

That’s Christiano’s teether of choice.  He loves cold, wet, terry cloth on his gums.

I was really stoked when I saw the Ringley just because of that fact.

We’ve been using it wet.  And thank goodness this thing is so easy to take apart to clean.  It just velcros around the wooden ring.  Take it off, hand wash it in the sink (we use Melaleuca laundry detergent), then hang it up to dry. We wash it at bedtime and it’s dry by the morning when he’s ready for it again.

Nano has it in his hand. (Not cooperating for pictures, come on Nano, chew on the teether, reach for the camera, no, don’t chew on my camera, the Ringley, son, the Ringley.)  He likes to throw it around when it’s dry, he thinks it’s funny.  When it’s wet and cold he’s chewing on it like there’s no tomorrow.

We received the top one with the knots, and I’m really glad we did because he goes straight to the knots when he’s chewing on it.  Gives him something he can gnaw on. I think they fit in between his two teeth on top that have come through (yeah, my son gets his top side teeth in first, NOW he’s working on the 2 front top teeth.)

From Ringley’s site -

RiNGLEY is a natural teether that combines two efficient teething tools: untreated Canadian Maple and 100% organic cotton terrycloth. These materials provide two very different textures that enable children to satisfy their teething needs.
RiNGLEY’s design allows your child to easily grip the ring and cloth. RiNGLEY can be used wet or dry and easily reaches around a child’s gums and teeth.
RiNGLEY was designed with a child’s development in mind. Since infants learn through tactile stimulus, touching and putting things in their mouths, the need for a product made without harmful chemicals and dyes is important. RiNGLEY is an organic and natural toy for babies to chew and teethe on.
RiNGLEY comes in four styles: knotted, straight, junior and ball.
Handmade in Toronto, Canada.

I’m really glad we got to try this. And I’m so happy to see there are more products out there that we can feel good about our babies putting in their mouths.  Because if your baby is anything like mine (and every other one on the planet), there isn’t anything they won’t put in their mouth.

I think I’m going to get a different style for Cambria, my neice.  Can you believe she is almost 4 months?  Those teeth will start bothering her soon and I think my SIL will like this as much as I do.  They are reasonably priced and I think they are so cute.  I’m thinking the ball one is the one I want to get her.

If you want to get your little one a Ringley, you can get it at quite a few stores online.  And there are also stores that sell them all over.  Enter your postal code to find one for you.

Ringley gets a

for being a beautiful toy that I feel safe giving to Christiano to chew on while his gums are bothering him.

Thank you to Ringley for providing us with one of their teethers to try.  We love it!

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I was asked by BzzAgent to participate in the L’Oreal (R) Paris Lash Boosting campaign. What make up loving woman would turn down that chance?  Not I!

I received the L’Oreal Lash Boosting Serum and the L’Oreal Double Extend w/Lash Boosting Serum Mascara.  I actually got them a week ago and started it for 2 days until I realized that my memory card I took my before pictures on was shot and had to start over.  We’ll call this day one.

The first person who laughs at my make up less nonexistent eyelashes will be escorted to the door by security.

And I have a problem taking self portaits, they are a tad blurry, but I didn’t edit them at all except for to resize them.  That way we can truly see how it works.  This is a 4 week campaign and I’ll take pictures once a week so we can see how things are moving on.

Welcome to day 1!

Yep, you can’t even see my eye lashes here.  You’d think with how dark my hair is I’d have nice full thick long black eye lashes like my children.  Not so.  It’s sad.  It truly is.

Here you can see my eyelashes.  They are blonde and thin and not long at all.  I’m always on the lookout for lengthening mascara.

Little blurry, but I love the mascara.  It makes my eye lashes longer and pow, they are right there.  Wait, pow is Emeril, that’s food.  Oh well, he won’t mind i I borrow it for mascara.

See, it pulled out lashes you didn’t even know were there.  On the side by the edge of my eye especially.

At this point the only thing I would want is a smaller tip on the brush or something.  I love how full the brush is for the majority of my eyelashes, but for the inside and outer corner, they were hard to get to with the brush.  But, if this does what it says it is going to do, I don’t care what the brush is like.

If you like the eye shadow I’m wearing, it’s my brand new Orglamix 3 color collection I won from Theta Mom.  I love it!  It’s called New Moon.  (Yeah, that wasn’t why I picked it, I liked the color. But it didn’t hurt.)

I’ll be back in a week with new pictures of my hopefully prettier naked eyelashes.

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I wanted something new, something shiny, something pretty, something, I don’t know, different.  I searched and searched for a WordPress magazine theme that used an image in it’s header (trust me, there aren’t many that look like what I had in my head) so I wouldn’t have to do too much coding.  I know HTML fairly well, but CSS, it confuses me just looking at it.

Found one.  Redid my header.  Installed it.  It didn’t look the way I wanted it to yet, so I spent a lot of time with my good friend Google looking up coding, how to remove borders around images (took me the longest because I kept missing the one section and it still had these borders.  Drove me crazy!), how to move things a touch, add things here, and I think I figured out that I can’t add HTML to a fading script, so if you want to check out the links in the bottom box on the front page, you’ve got to copy and paste.

Finally, it’s done.  Well, minus one of the top sections that is just a couple of pixels too high.  I need to figure out where that is in the stylesheet today.  That and I think I want to put a couple more boxes in for my posts because it looks awfully lonely with just 2 boxes on the front page.

Other that that, I love how it looks.

Besides the header, I think my favorite part is the part on the homepage that shows (right now) the blogs I read most often (check those out BTW! Love them!).  So nifty!  It would show more, but I need to figure out how to line it up better when I have a second line.

Now, I know more about coding a theme than I ever wanted to and less that I need to know to write a theme from hand.  I don’t think I really need to know that much.  Too much information might make me dangerous (as in might make me branch out into another hobby and Pato gets really tired of me finding new hobbies. He thinks the dishes should be my hobby.  Just kidding, he doesn’t really think that.)

I don’t think I’ll be redesigning my blog anytime soon again.  This round wore my brain out.

(And my categories are gone for the most part. I had to delete almost all of them or they were running down the page.  So, I’m adding tags now as I post, you can see them over on the right side in the tag cloud.)

I don’t remember if I shared what my little guy is doing.  I told you at 9 1/2 months he took his first steps.  At 10 months, he’s walking.  If there are 2 things close together (7 or 8 steps) he’ll walk from one to another to get where he needs to go.  If not, he’ll crawl.  Last night he was standing in the middle of the living room, just standing there.  I could see the wheels turning in that little head and knew he was going to try to do it without things near him to grab.  And he did.  He made it about 10 steps before falling on his butt.

Both of the girls started walking at 11 months, Jordan on his 1st birthday.  This is crazy to me that he is up walking already.

It also seems crazy that he’s going to be one in 2 months.  Time is flying by way too fast.  I miss him being an itty bitty little thing.  Ok, we all know Christiano, born at 8 lbs 15 oz, was never an itty bitty little thing, but I miss that newborn stage.  I’m up 15 times a night anyway with mr stopped sleeping through the night when he was sick last time.  If I got to sleep through the night ever, I could look back and reminisce on those sleepless nights and not miss it so much.  Oh well, he can’t not sleep through the night forever.  Someday I’ll get an uninterrupted night of sleep.

Pato is off this morning so I think we’re heading to Office Max and Best Buy to look at netbooks for the kids to replace the ones he took back.

That was funny.  Pato has a good grasp on the English language.  After almost 9 years here, he’s able to understand everything that is said to him in English (though, it’s just since he’s been with us – I say just as if almost 8 years is a short period off time – that he’s really tried learning.  He tells everyone that Jordan taught him English.)  Anyways, he doesn’t always get that there are certain ways that are better at explaining things in English when you are in public.

Mendards Lady:  Anything wrong with them?

Pato: Besides they suck?

Menards Lady: um, yes.  Anything wrong with them?

Pato: No, they just suck.

Mendards: Why?

Pato:  Because my kids can’t do anything on them.  They suck.

Ok honey. I know, I’m one to use the word sucks when I think something is horrible (I probably have some latent need to use it because it was a word that was on list of things you couldn’t say when I was growing up.), but I really try not to use the word in public to a cashier who is helping me.

He shrugs his shoulders as in oh well.  No skin off my nose.

And honestly, he doesn’t care.  That’s where Pato and I are different.  He doesn’t care what people think of him.  They either like him or they don’t.  I care too much.

It’s one of the things I love about him.  When someone upsets me, says something that hurts me, he dismisses them with a wave of his hand and says, va a la ….. la la la la la, can’t say the word he says.  It’s naughty and this is a family show here.  More or less he’s saying, they can go take a long walk off a short pier.  We don’t care what they think.

I love him.

I’ve rambled enough for today.

You have a wonderful day!

PS Did you know that Ricky Martin tweeted?  That Girl Blogs did.  I was kinda upset with myself for not knowing that because Ricky Martin was my first love, besides Joey McIntyre.  Love his music.  Live for his new cds.  How did I not know he tweeted?  Well, if you must follow him, like I must follow him, he’s @Ricky_Martin.  My life is complete now.

ETA – Changed Home Depot Lady to Menards lady to protect the innocent.  It wasn’t Home Depot that sold the “sucky” netbooks on Black Friday, it was Menard’s and I’d hate to trash my sister’s place of employment.  She’d be mad at me.  Home Depot rocks.  We love Home Depot.  Hope that made it better.

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