Final Reminder!
If you want to submit photos to our Photo Matching Game, please email in a photo of yourself when you were a baby and a photo of you taken recently.
Then we will all get to guess which baby photo belongs to whom.
I hope you will join us! The more the merrier!
Photos are due by December 21st.
Thanks for participating!
Have you seen this article? Many of the foods listed are no-brainers (giant sized burger, sugar loaded hotcakes, ), but others are a bit surprising:
Uno Chicago Grill Chicago Classic Deep Dish Pizza – “Downing this “personal” pizza is equivalent to eating 18 slices of Domino’s Crunchy Thin Crust cheese pizza.”
Macaroni Grill Spaghetti and Meatballs with Meat Sauce – “This meal satisfies your calorie requirements for an entire day.”
Jamba Juice Chocolate Moo’d Power Smoothie – “Jamba Juice calls it a smoothie; we call it a milk shake. In fact, this beverage contains as much sugar as 2 pints of Ben & Jerry’s butter pecan ice cream.”
So shocking! Granted I have never eaten any of these dishes, but I have eaten at these restaurants in the past.
Here are two other terrifying desserts that we’ve steered clear of after looking up the caloric content on our own:
Cold Stone Creamery Vanilla Shake – Almost 1400 calories and 70 grams of fat. (Their French Vanilla flavor also contains High Fructose Corn Syrup. YUCK!)
Cheesecake Factory Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake (prepackaged) – Once slice contains 800 calories and 30 grams of saturated fat. Enough said. (Their official restaurant site doesn’t post nutritional information, so we assume it’s just as bad, if not worse, since they don’t have to disclose…)
Just a couple more reasons to cook healthily at home. (Luckily, we have a number of fantastic vegan/vegetarian/healthy restaurants nearby. We’re planning on going to one in a couple hours, before we head to our acupressure for labor/partner prenatal yoga class! Should be fun!)
Almost 31 weeks along (compare with 28 week photo – some subtle differences)
As our due date approaches, I keep wondering “what sort of child are we going to have?” One characteristic I am especially curious about is whether we will have an adventurer:
Left: Carrie in fourth grade repelling down a dam next to a waterfall
Right: David being greeted by wolves at a wolf refuge (talk about an intimate and intimidating hello!)
After many such interesting and exciting experiences, our lives seem downright boring nowadays. Perhaps we need to go climb a mountain or visit a non-industrialized country? Obviously we can bring along the kids.
The first box of baby layette has arrived! Thank you, Grandma!
As I started unpacking these beautiful organic prefold diapers, it started to really hit home: our little one is going to be here soon! I think it’s absolutely incredible that the baby will be so tiny that it will fit in these little diapers, while at the same time a bit shocked that I am going to give birth to a baby that will fit into these diapers. Do you know what I mean? Regardless, I am so excited and feel very blessed.
For those friends and family members who have been asking, we’ve finally put a baby wishlist online! Please check it out. Absolutely no pressure to buy anything! Please just enjoy looking.
As you can probably tell, we’re going mostly organic with the diapers, clothing, bedding, etc. After reading up on all the pesticides applied to cotton and the chemicals involved in wool processing, coupled with my history of chemical sensitivities and allergies, we decided that as organic as possible feels right for our family. Luckily, the green/organic baby movement is in full force and is easy to find (especially here in California — all the local children’s boutiques I’ve gone to have carried organic lines!). With the first batch of layette items here (and softer and of higher quality than I imagined!), we’re so pleased with our choice!