I've got nothing to say today, so here's a link to the cereal Belle is having once a day these days, mixed with breast milk. She loves having cereal! She loves the spoon! Sometimes she grabs the spoon to feed herself which is ok with me, but most of the time she just lets Mommy handle the logistics.
I just ordered labels for all of Belle's stuff. All stuff must be labeled!!! How do you do that? You go to labelyourstuff.com of course.
We had a note from day care last week to label Belle's bottle lids. I put the three flower stickers on them that I've been using to mark her bottles but NO THAT'S NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE apparently, because when D brought Belle home, all the bottle lids had Belle's name written on them. This must be some new initiative, because Belle's been in day care since the end of August, and labeling bottle lids never came up before. So I decided it was finally time to buy some of those stupid labels to slap onto everything. Hers are red with the butterfly logo. (The ladybug is ugly.)
Last night I found a nice website for downloading free kids' music: freekidsmusic.com
It has a several classic songs, which is really nice for songs where you don't know the lyrics but wish you did, and it has a few songs each from a bunch of contemproary childrens' music composers, like a build-your-own sampler pack.
On Friday afternoon, a sprinkler repairman beat a man to death and then bludgeoned the man's daughter-in-law. There's no way the victims could have prevented or prepared for this; it's a horrible thing that happened when a mind became unhinged.
The slain man was the patriarch of a large Boston-area family, and knowing one of the family members just makes me one of thousands who do, and whose thoughts and prayers go out to the family. What a senseless tragedy.
...according to this toy.
I saw this in a store the other day, and it freaked me out a little.
Imagine all the vagina-related fun you could have with this toy! Putting things in, taking them out... awesome.
I don't really believe that any child would associate the openings with vaginas, but I do. And now so do you.
I've seen a few cute outfits in Belle's size that are made by the U.S. Polo Association; a weird clothing brand that I suspect is the chicken to Ralph Lauren Polo's egg. The thing that has kept me from buying anything made by this brand, though, is the logo. You can kind of see what it looks like on their website, but on the actual shirts, it looks like two men riding a horse together and enjoying it too much.
So, yesterday I mentioned that "Bleb-b-gone" would be a bad band name. This got me thinking: a milk bleb can sometimes lead to mastitis. Oooh, you don't want mastitis. However, "Mastitis" would be a very cool band name. I'm thinking it would be perfect for an all-female heavy metal band.
