That’s weird, I’d always heard that Huggies makes the Kirkland diapers too. Maybe they are still a lesser quality? I don’t know for sure. We used the cheaper Huggies with my first kid because my husband is into brand-names but I wore him down with kid #2 (probably because he lost his job when the kid was 4 months old)…

I love the Target brand (Up&Up) diapers but maybe they wouldn’t be soft enough for you. They are character-free, the designs are circles and whales.

My 3.5 year old really wants head banging music sometimes but I’m not quite sure what’s appropriate. So far, it’s mostly been Beastie Boys but I’m always on the lookout for more.

Kids LOVE Shake it Off! It’s on our spotify “kid pop” playlist along with Happy and Cups and similar tracks.

Island in the Sun is my 3.5 yo daughter’s favorite “lullaby” and she calls it the “mommy song.” I showed her the Spike Jonze music video recently and she was overjoyed and yet confused that someone else was singing my song.

No votes for Boston Creme Pie? My husband loves it so much that he made his own for his birthday this year and then ate it over the course of a week.

I think they’re just reminding you that the tag always goes in one of two corners. I almost always put the tag on the upper left corner (when facing the bed, that’s upper right by their definition) but I know it can go on the opposite bottom as well. What takes the longest time for me though is stuffing in the…

Good Place podcast? Thank you!!! 

I gave up on sanitizing VERY early in the process. Even with the microwave bags, it was just too tedious to do everyday after a full day of work with four pumping sessions to get the five bottles my hungry little baby needed to make it through the day. Especially since I still needed to pump one more time that night…

You said this much more eloquently than I could. I used a ton of the most basic medela bottles for pumping and sending to daycare with my daughter. Two years later, my son HATED every bottle we tried and eventually gave in to the Momma nipples on the Nuk bottles if the milk was almost unbearably hot. He wouldn’t even…

I was also pretty adamant about having a good nickname. My rules were mostly focused on 1) not being too popular; 2) having a simple enough spelling that most people would get it right the first time; 3) having a good nickname that started with the same letter as the longer name; and 4) not too much overlap with…

You’re lucky, we were going for names that were outside the top 100. I feel like my kids have common enough names that they won’t be looked at funny but no one else in their class will have them. But we managed to pick names that are very common for two generations earlier, so I’ve gotten the “those are my parents…

Too many people really into Trolls? 

this is me exactly. I probably would’ve watched more Old Christine on a different channel. I’d almost forgotten about Under the Dome. But I watched HIMYM religiously.

But the video game character she did was awesome. “Beyonce! Beyonce!” “Rihanna! Rihanna!” I think it’s the most memorable skit of the season.

I’ve come to terms that I’m never going to be a distance runner, but I love running as part of a HIIT cardio workout. Coached runs have really pushed me past what I could ever do myself and I’m even planning to try some 5Ks in the future. 

Loves them, is picky about them, and is pretty good about putting them on by herself because daycare pushes it. Also, her feet don’t really grow so we’re still wearing the same shoes from a year ago. She’s almost 4 and she still wears a toddler 5 or 6.

We don’t leave the shoes in the car but I try to keep a spare pair in the diaper bag and in their personal backpack that they take to daycare. We had a scary situation last year with a standoff next door that resulted in us getting ushered out of our home at 4AM. The toddler was smart enough to say “do I need shoes?”…

Is it really wasting money for my kid to have a pair or two of sneakers and some dressier shoes? I buy them mostly at consignment sales and then sell them again anyway if they’re in decent condition still.

Uncrustables are great, they keep in the jelly so little hands stay cleaner.