Yo Gabba Gabba

Violet has never been one for TV. She never glanced up at it in her first year of life. Starting a few weeks ago I would put on different TV shows for little ones (I don't care about the whole no TV till your 2 rule seeing as she literally watches a few minutes a day) to see if she was interested and finally I that I have found one she will watch....Yo Gabba Gabba of course. I mean she only watches for a few minutes and glances at it while she plays but I just love it when she moves her butt to to the music. We joke that she has a "groove thing." When she hears music she can't help it but to dance. I actually like the Yo Gabba Gabba shows because they are educational without being annoying. I especially like the music. I seriously catch myself singing them. I hope as Violet gets older she will watch more of DJ Lance. And to go with the theme here is a pic of Brad Pitt as DJ Lance for Halloween this year.


I think Yo Gabba Gabba has a music CD out. I should probably buy it for Violet for Christmas.

Name Your Tune: Review and Giveaway

Name Your Tune: Review and Giveaway I am super excited about my first review and giveaway. It is a Name Your Tune personalized CD!!!!

With the love of music, arts, children and creativity, Candace Alper founded Name Your Tune. The award winning Name Your Tune is a compilation of many popular children's songs on one CD. What makes this CD special is that it is made to order with your child's name. Your child will hear their name more than 80 times while listening to this CD! Violet has very few things with her name on them since her name is not that common so it is a special treat for her to have something with not only her name on it but her name sung on the CD. We travel in the car a lot and as soon as we got the CD I was excited to try it out. What a fun CD! The songs were super catchy and I know it will be a CD that will be played in the car for many years to come.


Since the CDs are personalized upon receipt of your order (including a personalized label), you can include one, two or three names and they simply alternate the names among the list of songs. Although Violet can't really understand the songs yet she still loves the melodies on the CD and she hears and understands her name when it is sung in the songs. I just know that as she gets older she will love it even more. I can’t wait to hear her sing along with the CDs.
You can also get to personalize the label! It will have your child(ren)'s name(s) on it, along with a brief message. I had ours personalized to say

"Special Songs for You
Violet
Love, Mommy & Daddy."

These make absolutely wonderful gifts! They are so unique and fun, any kid of any age would just love this!

A huge thanks to Name Your Tune for offering this review and giveaway!
Buy It! Stop by Name Your Tune to find out how to purchase a personalized CD for the special child(ren) in your life! They also have other products including placemats and lunchboxes. Even better Name Your Tune has offered the coupon code, 'wakeboardingmama' for $5 off for your Name Your Tune CD order.

Win It! The very generous creator of Name Your Tune CDs has offered to give one personalized CD to one lucky reader!

To Enter: Simply visit Name Your Tune & pick your favorite song from their playlist, then come back and leave your pick in a comment. This is mandatory and must be done before any additional entries are done.

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GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!!!

I will be hosting my first giveaway soon! Be on the lookout for your chance to learn about a great company and your chance to win a product of your very own . I am incredibly excited and I hope you are too!

1st Birthday Party Planning

As a stay at home mom it takes very little to get me excited about things. One of those things is my daughter's 1st birthday that is coming up. Another thing that gets me excited is coupon and bargain shopping. Put them together and I am in heaven. Over the last few weeks I have been shopping around for the best deals and it looks like everything is coming together.

I got super cute invitations from Tiny Prints that I won for free from Mom Giveaways.

The party theme is (plates and cups):

and I searched high and low on the internet until I found the absolute best price.

For toddler entertainment I got a small indoor ball pit on clearance at WalMart:

and I got 250 extra balls for it from Toys R Us and I used a birthday coupon (sign up for the Toys R Us birthday club and they send a coupon for the child's birthday and they get a balloon at Toys R Us).

The day of the party I will be going to Sams and getting food for everybody (between 20-25 people but that includes kids). This is mainly a family and close friend event.

For Violet's birthday her Daddy and I got her a ride on Little Tikes Coupe:

And we got it brand new in the box for 50% off from T.J. Max.

And finally we got her a leap frog learning puppy:

We mainly got it because the dog's name is Violet and of course it was on sale. It looks cool too, apparently you can plug it into the computer and add songs and stuff so that your child can interact with it.

All that is left to do is order the birthday cake. I am so excited....my baby is not a baby anymore!

Breastfeeding in Public

Water Baby

Violet is just now finishing up on week 3 of swim lessons and I am super proud of my little girl. A better term would actually be swimming survival skills. Her lessons are through Infant Swimming Resource which is the same company that I learned to swim with 27 years ago. The founder of the swim technique taught me when I was just a baby. My mom had actually taken me to two other classes before she found ISR and she felt that the methods they were using were not teaching me anything. Then she found Dr. Barnett and ISR and she knew she had found the right method for us. Even though Violet is only 9 months old I knew I would not use any other way but ISR. I know this sounds like a paid endorsement but I have not received anything for this glowing review. I just feel it is important for every baby to learn how to float should the unthinkable happen. Violet is already floating on her own for a few seconds and over the next 3 weeks or so I know that her skills will get even better and in the end she will even be put in the pool fully clothed and she will roll to her back and float. Since we live in Florida we felt it was extra important since we are literally surrounded by water.

Big Titty Commitee

So I will be going on a 3 day trip with my husband's firm without dear child. I will be wearing dress clothes and such so I have been shopping to find the perfect outfits. I also had to go and get a new non nursing bra. That was an adventure all by itself. I absolutely hate when the bra ladies try and help you with finding a bra so decided to go at it by myself like I always have. After having huge nursing boobies I kept picking bras with too small a cup size. I decided to let my guard down and have the sales woman help. She ended up being awesome and she even nursed her son for 4 years. I must have tried on ever single huge boobie bra in the whole store....which amounted to about 30. I ended up with 2 that fit good and should look good under my outfits. The grand total was a size......DDD. Ugh....thankfully the size G was too big.