Similarly, we just were gifted this thing. The modern day Teddy Ruxpin? My 3.5 year old is obsessed with it and has already memorized all the stories in 2 days. https://www.amazon.com/Cuddle-Barn-Dalton-Storytelling-Recites/dp/B06WLL2FYX

My pre-schooler might like this but her little brother would rather “read” to himself each night. (He just turned 2) But man, does he love to have Alexa do the animal sounds skill. He can’t quite get her to turn on, but he can get her to understand most animals he wants. Try it out yourself, and make sure to ask for…

She’s on one of the early episodes of the good place podcast; it’s awesome.

My almost 2 year old really likes these books from the library. We started with red but we also have blue and yellow now.

My 3.5 year old is very insistent that her crayons include an indigo and a violet, purple is just not enough for her.

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.