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When your baby starts to eat real food, it can be an exciting but messy time! There are so many yummy foods to feed your baby now that they are starting to eat food. So, here are some healthy ideas that your baby will enjoy!

• You can try mashing up an avocado or slicing it into small pieces! This is soft enough for your baby to eat and easy for them to pick up with their hands! It’s healthy, but it definitely will make a mess!
• You can give your baby mashed potatoes, pureed vegetables like peas and sweet potatoes, or mashed up beans. These are also delicious and healthy options that are soft for your baby to eat and easy enough to make.

• Also, a fun breakfast recipe you can do is scrambled eggs, and mix in some cottage cheese! This adds a little something extra to the eggs and a fun texture.
• And for a little sweetness, you can slice up some watermelon, or drizzle some chocolate over pieces of banana. These small slices are easy enough for your baby to grab and soft for them to eat as a sweet treat!

Starting your baby on real food is a lot of fun, especially watching them make a mess with all the food. Be sure to have some wipes handy for the mess, and a camera to remember these fun moments.

Babies have adorably tiny hands and feet, and you can make those a memory forever by making prints of their hands or feet.  The best way to do this is while your baby is sleeping so that they won’t move.  Be sure to roll the paint roller or brush over their entire hand or foot from the bottom to the top, making sure you get all the little fingers and tiny toes.  You’ll want a wipe for quick clean up afterwards as well.

You can put their handprints and footprints on beautiful paper that can then be framed, or on canvas that can easily be hung up.  You can write a quote or paint around the prints as well!  And you can also paint your baby’s hands or feet with colorful paint, or you can put Elmer’s glue on their feet and then when you make the print you can add glitter to the paper so you’ll have glitter prints!

Or you can make a mold of their hand or footprints with this natural trick: mix ½ cup salt, ½ cup flour, and ¼ cup of water and knead the dough into a thick, flat, circular shape.  Then you can dip the baby’s feet or hands into the dough to leave a print.  Then bake the dough at 200° for three hours, and it’ll be hard like stone with the prints of your baby’s hands or feet!  These also work great as stepping stones or an ornament and can be painted too.
Lastly, you can make these prints of your baby’s hands and feet every few months to show how quickly they grow!  However you decide to make prints of your baby’s cute little hands and feet, they will make adorable keepsakes, memories and gifts for life.

• You can try a teething ring that has different textures on it to help alleviate sore gums.  Or try a vibrating teething ring and put it in the fridge to cool it so it numbs the gums a little.
• Similarly, you can take their normal pacifier and place it in the fridge to cool so that it helps numb the baby’s gums.
• You can freeze a slice of mango, watermelon or banana and then give it to your baby to gnaw on something cool to numb their gums while tasting good.

• Try wetting a washcloth and putting it in the freezer.  You can also dip it in apple juice or something sweet to taste good.  This is really helpful for babies because the washcloth molds to their gums and the texture also feels good.
• To make sure your baby is feeding as well, you can puree frozen fruit into a cold slush/smoothie so they’ll eat that while also helping ease the gum pain.  Or you can try cold apple sauce or other cold pureed foods.
• You can also give your baby a chilled spoon to gnaw on.  This works well if you go out too, and you can put a spoon in a cup of ice water to chill it and then let your baby have it.

Seeing your baby in pain is hard to watch, but luckily these tips can help you relieve some of that pain while your baby is teething so that they are the happy baby that you know.

Having a baby is a wonderful and happy experience, and you will be surprised how well you can function on so little sleep sometimes.  But if you’d like to get some more sleep for you and your baby, here are some quick tips to help your baby sleep through the night longer.

Often during the night your baby will startle themselves awake with jerking movements, so by swaddling your baby and wrapping them in a swaddling blanket, they’ll sleep better and won’t wake up from movements.

Dream feeding your baby right before you go to sleep helps the baby so they don’t wake up right after you fall asleep.  If your baby often wakes up late at night hungry, try waking them up to feed them right before you go to sleep and it’ll fill up their belly just enough to have some more uninterrupted sleep for both of you.

Limit naps during the day, don’t let them sleep longer than 2 hour naps. This way they will still be tired in the evening for bedtime.
You can also use white noise to help them sleep at night, maybe a fan in the bedroom faced away or a white noise machine so that they have some background noise to help lull them to sleep.

Use a pre-nap and bedtime routine like turning on the white noise, singing a song, and cuddles.  The bedtime routine may include a bath, reading a story, feeding, swaddling the baby, and then cuddles.  This helps your baby stay to the same routine and cues the baby for sleep and learn that sleep follows this routine.

Motherhood is an exciting and daring adventure, and while a full night’s sleep will become just a dream, you can still get some more sleep with these tips for both you and your baby.

Reading to your kids and teaching them to read is a special time, so let’s get them started at a young age!  Here are some excellent educational books for your kid to start learning how to read.

• Get My First Words: Let’s Get Talking and help your toddlers learn to read and identify colors, animals and objects around them.
• Get Now I Eat My ABC’s and help your kids learn the alphabet with fun kid-friendly foods with bright pictures.

• Check out I Spy Little Letters and watch your kids find the hidden letters and learn the alphabet while having fun.
• Or get 123 Count With Me and teach your kids to count with bright and fun illustrations and grooved numbers so that your kids can feel each number.
• And check out The Toddler’s Handbook and teach your kids basic concepts including numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, animals, sounds, emotions and more!  Vibrant colors and pictures make this a fun read for your kids.
• Finally, another highly recommended book is the classic Goodnight Moon as a perfect ending to a great day to read with your little one as they drift off to sleep.

Make wonderful memories and have a great time teaching your kids to read with these educational and fun books!

You’re getting ready for the arrival of your little one, and now it’s time to decorate the nursery room for them!

Get the Minnie Mouse Happy Day bedding and you can get an adorable 3-piece crib set, and a crib cushioned bumper and liner!  Or get these cute Winnie the Pooh plush or flannel blankets and crib liners.  Additionally, you can get the Lion King bedding set, or choose the The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Finding Nemo, Mickey Mouse and more!

You can also get a Finding Nemo, Mickey and Minnie Mouse Musical Mobiles for above the crib, or cute wall art, rugs, lamps, window curtains and more!

Check out the amazing Disney Princess Gliding Bassinet  with music, adjustable vibration speeds and storage underneath!  Let your little one play and have fun with the Winnie the Pooh Happy as Can Bee Activity gym with toys, a squeaker, a mirror, and more!  And don’t forget an adorable Mickey or Minnie Mouse plush play mat for your baby to lay on.

So decorate your baby’s nursery with these amazing decorations and watch your little one laugh and have fun surrounded by these adorable friends.

So your kids want to go to Disneyland for the day, but which park do you choose—Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure?  Both are great parks, and you can always split the day at both parks, but if you want to choose just one, here are some ideas for which park to choose.

Disneyland is great for the younger kids and toddlers.  There are a lot of rides that have no height requirements so the young kids can go on the rides, for example: Peter Pan’s Flight or Dumbo the Flying Elephant rides in Fantasyland, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland, Goofy’s Playhouse or the Chip n’ Dale Treehouse in Mickey’s Toon Town, It’s a Small World, or Mad Tea Party in Fantasyland. You can also let your kids run around and play in Toon Town, and they can see some of their favorite Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and many more.

If your kids are a little bit older though, they might enjoy Disney California Adventure a little bit more. There are some thrilling, adventurous rides like the Grizzly River Run in Grizzly Peak with sharp rocks and loud waterfall drops, the California Screamin’ roller coaster on Paradise Pier with loud drops, and the Radiator Springs Racers in Cars Land where you can race each other.  Or check out the Animation Academy in Hollywood Land and learn to draw!  And don’t miss the Avengers, on May 27^th, 2017, as they search for new recruits, or help Rocket in “Guardians of the Galaxy–Mission: BREAKOUT!” in Hollywood Land as he rescues the Guardians!  

You’ll have a blast at whichever park you take your kids to, and the next time you go to Disneyland, you can switch it up and go to the other park instead!