Mommy Message Alert: Baby Slings

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a caution about infant slings after investigating deaths involving the carriers.

Apparently infants under the age of 4 months are the most affected age group, especially preemies.

Out Little Bee lived in his sling...

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Treat Friday: Starbucks Man We Love You

What a wonderful Friday treat to break up a week filled with sniffles and snuffles.  It is early release day at school for Big Boy Bee.  (I always think "early release" makes it sound like they are prisoners, but anyway.)

At lunch, while Daddy Bee waited to get tires for his car, we decided to all head to get a pizza at a local Italian restaurant.  We were up for the fun task of taking all three bees into the public eye.  Lunch went well, only one knocked over water and Mommy Bee didn't shatter the light when she hit it hoisting the high chair to our table.  So all in all a pleasant meal.


As we headed to the car Daddy Bee and I decided to look for a little coffee pick me up on this rainy Friday and settled on a Starbucks near the pizza restaurant.

We ordered and when the nice man at the window gave us our beverages he looked and saw little smiling faces peering at him.  "Are there three boys back there?"  he smiled.  "Yep, three boys," we said.  He then held up his finger...

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Wordless Wednesday

Big Bee 

When he was our littlest

and 

only bee

Zhu Zhu Pet Hamsters

We have new additions to our family and they don't smell or bite.  Each of the three Bees got their very own Zhu Zhu Pet hamster this week.  These cute interactive toys are just the thing to get us through our desire for a real live hamster.

Big Bee has Nugget, aka renamed Sunshine, and his hair matches the boy really well.

 Middle Bee has the black and white Winkie.  He renamed his pet Furry Chunky Legs. Hmmmmm?

Baby Bee has the brown guy with an acorn on his back.  He has taken to calling it Apple.  I have no idea why, but it's cute when he says it, "Ah-pull"








They explore, they chat, and...

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My Left Foot

For those of you who know me as the "graceful swan" this story will surprise you.  O.K., no one knows me as the "graceful swan", but I wish I were a little more graceful.  I realize it will never happen, but at this point I just want to be able to walk, run, maybe hop a little?  But then there is my left foot, it is misbehaving badly or maybe it is a victim in all of this.  I'm not sure, but it hurts like nobody's business.

Last week while putting up clothing in stealth mode as the children slept I stubbed my left pinky toe on a door.  Oh how I stumped it.  Stumped or stubbed just doesn't seem quite the words to describe the violence inflicted on my teeniest of toes.  After impact I ran into our room and nothing makes me more descriptive or sailor-like than when I hurt my toe.  Dear Daddy Bee was at his desk just staring at me because I was a sight to behold.  My toe ended up a nice shade of purple rain.  I thought it was broken.  It looked broken.  Only an X-Ray would tell.....

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Wordless Wednesday-Lemur Edition

A few words for Wordless Wednesday to help our friends at the Duke Lemur Center.  Along with videographer Keith, we recently visited the lemurs for a UNC-TV PBS story.










These pictures show Research Coordinator Sarah Zehr bringing us up close and personal to the world's most adorable endangered animals.  There is not a place like this one on earth that helps lemurs.

 Now Pepsi is giving money to worthy causes, and they are letting you decide who is worthy.

 Go to: Pepsi to vote for the lemurs to win......

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World Maths Day Olympics

It's not the real Olympics, but you will find a bit of mental gymnastics or "mathnastics" practice taking place at our house.

The Smart Kids Smart Parents founder pointed me to  this excellent online World Maths Day Competition website.  Over one million children from all over the world compete against one another in a math fact showdown of epic proportions.  They can compete as an individual student or with their school.

We are only two days away from the March 3rd start of the 48 hour problem solving challenge.  If your child is interested in math, this site will make your little mathlete very happy.

After registering....

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