Your Coture Kid (review)

When i received the headband from Your Couture Kid in the mail, I did not expect my girls to turn into extreme fighting champions trying to be the one to wear it first.

And yet…that’s exactly what happened. It seems the initial “cuteness” factor was too much for my girls and they each felt there could be no taking turns, they wanted to be the one to wear it first.

Seriously, I had to use candy to separate them.

The adorable headband isn’t just a pretty hairpiece, either. My 3-year-old pulled and pushed as she put it on her head and took it off her head, it didn’t break!

Overall I’m thrilled with Your Couture Kid and there will be a few more headbands under the tree for Christmas that my girls won’t have to fight over – they’ll have their own!

Oh, and if your little one isn’t old enough for a headband yet, or they just prefer pigtails – Your Couture Kid has you covered with the most adorable ponytail holders I think I’ve ever seen!

This post was written for the Family Review Network on behalf of Your Coture Kid.

Cloth Diapers — a BumGenius 3.0 could be yours!

So, you’ve been thinking about making the switch to cloth? It’s intimidating, right? Oh, and expensive too! Well, not it isn’t. The switch can be made cheaply and easily, and cloth is just as easy as disposable, with the added bonus of no-guilt.

So what’s the hold up?

Oh, you don’t have any cloth diapers?

Well, we can fix all that! We’re going to get you on your way with a free, yes free, BumGenius 3.0 one-size diaper. This top-of-the-line diaper, courtesy of Cotton Babies, can be yours!

How you ask?

Just leave us a comment. Tell us your worst diapering story. Or pregnancy story. Or heck, any story at all. The funniest anecdote will be the winner!

Everyone has a story, but to break the ice, here goes:

My little Miss M was 2 months old, and we had just moved into our new house. As in the day before “just”. So, in addition to “new mom tired”, I had “just moved every frigging thing we own tired”.

I struggled into the nursery for the 3 a.m. feeding, a regular part of our routine at this point, and managed to find the crib and get us both settled into the rocking chair. I nursed our little girl, and didn’t even fall asleep in the process! I was so proud. I then changed her diaper, put her back to bed, and stumbled back to my own wonderful pillows.

Or so I thought.

In the morning, I awoke to a screaming baby, and a laughing husband. He was already up and had beaten me to the nursery, where he found M’s clean diaper — on the changing table! I had removed the dirty diaper, and zipped her back up into her blanket sleeper without putting the new diaper on!

Needless to say, there was a very wet and unhappy baby, and a mom facing an extra load of laundry that day.

I know you can beat my lame story, so lets hear it!

The winner will be the story that makes Jen and I laugh the most. Our decision is final. One entry per person, you have until 3 p.m. Wednesday to enter.  The contest is open to residents of the U.S., and those the U.S. mailing addresses.  The prize is one pink BumGenius 3.0 one-size diaper, Go ahead, make us laugh!