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Valentine crafts for little ones

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I really like Valentine’s Day. There are so many cute decorations and crafts and Valentines to make. Plus the food–well, desserts–are so pretty and yummy too! I’ll be the first to admit that I am not “crafty” at all. I don’t own any paints, a glue gun, tons of stickers or craft punches. But, I [...]

Does she like it? Yes she does!

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We’re excited to announce a new review from Cherise at MomandMore.com. Here are a few of our favorite excerpts: “Since the Sprout Shell is a product that can grow from infant through toddler I think the price of $45 is a great price.” ” I know we will get our use out of it!” “For [...]

New Infant Carrier Covers in our shop!

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We’re excited to announce that we have 2 new fabric choices for our infant carrier covers–a boy one called Argyle Prep and a girl one called Lacey Girl. We hope you like them! Available now in our shop.                              

We’re a finalist–and we need your help!

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We are so excited to announce that Sprout Shell is a finalist in the Most Awesome  Baby Stage Must Haves category in Red Tricycle’s Totally Awesome Awards. Woo Hoo!  The voting runs from September 5 -14 and the finalist with the most votes will be the winner. If you love Sprout Shell we need your [...]

School daze

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Hello again! Hope you’re having a wonderful summer! We’ve been busy and lazy off an on, so I definitely can’t complain. My oldest is starting preschool this year, and he can hardly wait! Every time he sees anything related to school he gets very excited and starts talking about going to school and playing with [...]

Happy Birthday to us!

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It’s our birthday week. I can’t believe we’re 3 already! We have a few good things going on this week that we want you to know about. First, enter to win a Sprout Shell here: http://365daysoflifebehindthelens.blogspot.com/2011/06/day-26-june-20-2011.html Don’t wait though, it only goes through Sunday! Also, if you are on our mailing list you’ll be getting [...]

Do I know you?

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No? Then please don’t touch my baby. This is kind of what I wanted to say yesterday to the well-meaning people at the zoo. We went with our cousins to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs–Colorado of course. Here’s a link if you want to check it out. www.cmzoo.org/ This zoo is built into [...]

Easter fun with kids

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Usually I am so on top of things when it comes to holidays. I have everything ready–or at least know what I need. I know what craft or treat I am going to make. I have gifts purchased. This year I am way behind! Easter is in 4 days and I have candy and church [...]

Rear-facing till 2?

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I know I’m a little late on this, but I just had to add my thoughts on the new car seat requirements released by the America Academy of Pediatrics last month. They now recommend children stay rear-facing in a car seat until at least age two. Apparently it’s much safer because “Rear-facing car seats distribute [...]

How unique are your kids’ names?

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Apparently there is a new study that suggests babies born in “frontier” states have more unique names than those born in the East. The whole article is here: http://www.livescience.com/12934-popular-baby-names-frontier-states.html I thought it was interesting since just in my personal experience it seems to ring true a bit. My kids have very unusual names, Britton and [...]