Bummis All In One Diaper Review

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Bummis has just released a their new AIO cloth diaper (all-in-one). An AIO diaper is when there are no removable inserts. You don’t need to stuff any extra absorbent piece into the diaper. They are literally all in one.  They are great for ease of use. No time to pre-stuff the diaper. They are quick to prep. The main ‘con’ that cloth diaper users seem to have with AIO style diapers is the length of time they take to dry after being washed. Being that they are AIO they are thicker and have more material as part of their design. This naturally causes them to take longer to dry. I drip dry all of my cloth diapers. When you place a cloth diaper in the dryer with medium to high heat the elastic that is found in the waist and around the leg gussets will warm up. When elastic gets warm time after time it can loose is elasticity and integrity. You NEVER want to pull on a cloth diaper straight out of the dryer! If you pull hot elastic it cannot and will not go back to it’s original tightness.

AIO diapers come in different designs if you will. Each brand have their own design which makes them unique. I really like what Bummis came up with for this new AIO cloth diaper. When you open this diaper it has a an absorbent organic cotton liner. This is what will be up against your child and what will catch everything. It is slightly textured which is great to keep things stay put if you will when bowel movements occur. Don’t get me wrong though, the contents are going to shift and move in there as the kids moves around, but I feel like this feature does help keep things not move around as much.

The Bummis AIO has a long extra piece of the same organic textured material, this is referred to as a doubler. A doubler helps give extra absorbency to a diaper – extending how much it can hold.  This can be laid on top of the diaper against your child skin or ‘stuffed’ underneath/inside the diaper. Because the doubler is permanently attached to the diaper and will never be removed, this diaper is still considered an All-In-One.

Underneath the main layer, where you would stuff the doubler if you choose too, is an extra layer of material. You can feel it in there and peek in to view. After washing and drying this inside layer can get shifted around. It is attached on both ends but not on the sides lengthwise. Before I stuff the doubler in this pocket (because that is how I like to have my son wear this diaper), I stick my hand in the pocket and smooth down this extra layer. During washes this layer will roll up and sort of bunch up. I feel like I wouldn’t want to wear the diaper with that slight bumpiness to it, so I like to smooth it out for my child. I believe it makes it more comfortable for him, as well as more effective. If the cloth bunched all up in the middle then its not as effective on the sides towards the legs and could possibly cause a leak. I have NEVER had a leak from the diaper, but I think this user error could cause a leak especially with boys who pee out leg holes.

Overall here are the best parts of the Bummis AIO:

• Easy to wash (only 1 wash to prep needed)
• Fast to dry 
• Nice leg gussets 

Y Grow Up Review

About Y Grow Up

YGrowUp.net is a premier children’s educational and developmental virtual toy store. Viki, the owner and director of YGrowUp.net started this adventure after running a success children’s center. She knows what toys are best for educating a child in a natural and comfortable way. Learning through play, in my opinion, is the most effect tool for children. When children are engaged, having fun and fully absorbed in their activity, their brain is ready to soak it all in. If you can add in valuable educational points it’s a win/win!

Adults must be accompanied by a responsible child –  Y Grow Up’s Slogan

As a parent you will be constantly asked “What does your child want for their birthday/holiday”. You want to say, “no more junk!” When you are stumped and need a great idea, in a ton of price point ranges, head over to YGrowUp.net. It is the perfect resource to shopping for a fun and unique gift to bring to a party you have been invited too as well. You can shop by a ton of categories, making online shopping way fast and more efficient.

Shop by Product Categories:

• Age
• Brand
• Skill
• Playroom Classroom
• Wood Toys
• Holiday Toys
• Award Winning Toys

 Shop by Activity:

• Circle Time
• Infants/Toddlers
• Thinking Skill Toys
• Scribble Colors and Puddles
• Super Market
• Bilingual Kids
• Civic Center Pretend Play
• New Toys

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Mama’s Experience

There are so many places to shop now-a-days. It can be hard to find one you can trust and rely on. When I found out about Y Grow Up, I knew there was something special going on. They focused on products that are truley educational and fun. Ones that will bear fruit when a child plays with it. Toys that are more than just toys. As a mom I only have so much room in my house. I cannot handle too much clutter. I mean are these toys spawning and making clones?! HAHA! I joke of course. But seriously, when it comes down to it, after having 2 kids now I see how useless some toys can be. If I am going to spend my money, or have a friend or relative buy a gift for my kids I want it to be special.  I want it to be a useful toy that will be played with. One that will help educate them while they play. All of these things can be found with YGrowUp.net. This is a special website. They are not just out to make a buck and sell you toys. Y Grow Up honestly wants to provide us with the best possible toy options on the market. They are constantly on the search for the newest and best toys out there. They really do the dirty work for us. She even has her site organized so that I can shop in ways that are best for me. I like to shop by age and by skill.

I love how easy the site is to navigate. With tabs at the top of the screen and the left side bar, I can click around and find fun and unique toys I never knew existed. Their format makes each item easy to see, read and click on. It’s really dummy proof, which tired moms everywhere need. They tagged every toy with keywords that you are see when you click on them. You can easily find more toys by typing in any key word into the search bar or by clicking the key word as show below.

You can live chat with a rep to help you with your shopping and all your questions. They are fast, helpful and polite. You may even get to chat with the owner! The chat box is easy to find and use. Look at the bottom right hand corner of the screen to find the small circle, it may be a picture of a persons face or an orange circle (if you have used the chat feature previously it will turn to an orange circle). This will allow you to instantly connect with YGrowUp.Net.

I love the ability to quickly navigate around the site while browsing for ideas. Clicking the side tabs or top tabs are a fast way to explore.

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I was able to try out one of the phenomenal toys sold at ygrowup.net – the Guidecraft Barnyard Activity Boxes

This is now my favorite toy my children play with. This barnyard is perfect for children ages 2+. My son, age 2 and my daughter, age 3, equally love playing with this Barnyard Activity Boxes set. This toys helps us work on things like, shapes, spacial awareness, cognitive, color matching, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination language skills, matching skills, problem solving, shapes, thinking skills. I love that its made with quality wood and beautiful bright colors.

My 2 year old likes to match the animal to the correct house. He can recognize the same color and match them using color matching skills. We make the animal noises the animal would make. This helps with building confidence in knowing these real animals we see while driving around (we live in the country). My best friend has 6 chickens for goodness sake! He loves being able to peek into the iridescent window to see if there are animals inside the box just as much as he loves opening and closing the tiny door.

My 3 year old loves to work on her counting skills with the animals. We work on finding all the animals in a particular color, then count them out loud together. I have introduced basic addition by talking about if we put 2 chickens and 1 horse together how many animals will we have? (it’s 3 if I stumped you) She also loves to help her little brother with his animal noises and color matching.

Blessed Grove Keepsakes

Having a keepsake could be a great way of remembering the past, there are so many different types of keepsakes from quilts made into this college tshirt keepsake to jewelry. You may have not yet heard about Blessed Grove Keepsakes, but you may have heard of the type of services they provide. Blessed Grove Keepsakes makes amazing keepsake jewelry to help you hold on to and remember some special times and people in your life.

Owner and founder, Monique is a doula as well as a photographer. If you’ve not heard the term doula before, researching midwife vs doula should give you an explanation. She has seen and experienced a lot of different circumstances while doing both of her jobs. What did knew for sure was that people are looking for a way to capture their “birth, surrogacy or breastfeeding journey, a lost child, first hair cut, a parent or pet who has passed on…this is how Blessed Grove Keepsakes was born.”

Blessed Grove Keepsakes specializes in offering beautiful wearable keepsakes that preserve your most intimate moments.

Using breast milk, placenta, hair clippings or created ashes, Blessed Grove Keepsakes can make a special memory last a lifetime by transforming them into amazing wearable jewelry.

MamatheFox is having a breast milk necklace made and will keep you posted once it arrives!

Terra Bella February 2016 Review

About Terra Bella

I think Terra Bella is one of the highest quality subscription boxes on the market. Each box is specially designed with their customers in mind. All of the products that make the cut into a Terra Bella box are cruelty free. They try to always support small as well as women & minority owns businesses. Helping every day people and families succeed. Around Thanksgiving we often hear about Small Business Saturday. After that we forget about the smaller companies. By subscribing to Terra Bella, or gifting a subscription, you are empowering small businesses beyond the holiday season. 

Each box has a variety of beauty, bath and healthy products. By keeping us on our toes and by providing such high quality products we are itching for more, month after month.

Prices

Here are Terra Bella’s current prices

Terra Bella Box:

month-to-month: $34.95

3 month subscription: $104.86

6 month subscription: $203.70

12 month subscription: $395.45

Terra Bella Box Lite:

month-to-month: $16.95

3 month subscription: $50.85

6 month subscription: $101.72

12 month subscription: $203.40

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Mama’s Experience

Every month Terra Bella never disappoints. They have a perfect variety of beauty products in different categories. This month was a Valentines Day self pamper theme. Each item I can use in a normal day or while getting pampered for the day dedicated to love. Loving yourself is something I am working towards in my Better Choices series. When I can see in myself what God see’s in me, I know I am going in the right direction.

qc naturals – lottie’s body oil

I am the kind of person who needs to use a moisturizer after every bath or shower. It just how much skin is. Especially my legs and my hips! I always go for a lotion and rarely remember oil as an option. My mother, on the other hand, uses oil like is is going out of style. Head to toe, after every shower. I remember this as a fond memory of her. I spoke with her and she still uses oil, so I decided to use this lottie’s body oil just like my mother for a few days and see what I thought.

I applied the oil just as I would a lotion and I was so surprised at how fast it soaked in! I was not left with wet or oily skin, but instead soft skin that was slightly shiny for a few minutes until it was 100% soaked in. Being that this product is oil, it does not feel like other oils I have touched. It soaks in like my skin is yearning for it instead of rejecting it. I am officially hooked to this product. I have used it on my 3 year old daughter too and she didn’t object, which says a lot of the quality of the product.

Indigo Wild – Zum Rub Moisturizer in Lavender

This Zum Rub is a combo of goats milk and shea butter. Its meant for treat those crazy rough areas of our bodies like our feet, ankles,
elbows, cuticles, lips and anywhere else you may need it. I have heard it makes an awesome tattoo cream. It comes in a small round tin, so its perfect for purses, car counsels and diaper bags. You can toss it where you need it most and it can be your little helper when you need it. I am the type of person who gets dry knuckles by surprise. One morning I just wake up and my knuckles are practically cracking. This is the best quick fix for almost cracked dry skin. It doesn’t sting, because there are not dyes or artificial fillers. It quickly absorbs and gets to work. I am so impressed with how quickly this restored my knuckles back to a healthy state.

Miss Violet Lace – Breath Atomizer in Wild Strawberries

This is a super fun and unique product I would never have found without the help of Terra Bella Box. Miss Violet Lace has a super fun breath spray that comes in a fun and classy glass bottle. Sweetened with stevia, you can get amazing fresh breath without all the chemicals other breath sprays contain. This product uses USDA Certified organic extract for flavor and its meant to be used after meals or whenever you need to freshen up. My husband loves the smell and taste of strawberries, so this is the perfect way to freshen up before I cuddle up with him on the couch. When he smells that sweet berry scent I see a sneaky smile creep up on his face, which makes me the happiest wife on the block.

Whisky, Ink & Lace – Cinnamon Lip Plumper

This is the type of lip plumper that will totally plump up your lips. The cinnamon oil used in this plumper stimulates your lips and brings blood flood to them, which in effect gives them a more full look. This is a great way to get ready for a night out on the town. You should not use this product daily, its a product to be used 1 or 2 times per week at most. Otherwise your body can become immune to the effects. If you like Red Hots the candy, you are going to love this product.

Country Market Crafts – Chocolate Cupcake Bubble Bar & Bath Bomb

This was my favorite product in this months amazing Terra Bella Box. You get 2 bath treats in one with this Country Market Crafts product. The top half is a bubble bar. You can use this all at once of break in half to use 2 times. Hold it under the faucet when your bath is filling to give yourself a beautiful array of bubbles. You will be amazed at how many bubbles you will get from such a cute little frosting shaped bar.

The cupcake base is the most moistening bath bomb I have ever used. This is coming from me, the queen of bath bombs. Its my go to gift that I get for every gift giving event. Christmas, my birthday, Easter Baskets (before I had kids…now they get them LOL), and Valentines Day. I honestly feel like I am an expert in bath products. This bath bomb is one of the best I have ever used! I literally cannot believe how soft it made my skin. I did not have to apply moisturizer afterwards, I mean it was the moisturizing. It turned my water a fun brown, and smelled like real melted chocolate. As you run your hands through the water you can feel the silkiness. It calmed me down and got me giddy at the same time, which was a fun twist. This will make the perfect gift for any bath lover.