Baby Butts in Skinny Jeans

Today's Wall Street Journal featured a fun read, "Do These Jeans Make My Diaper Look Big?, about the trend of skinny jeans for babies. Everyone from the Gap, Old Navy and American Eagle Outfitters Inc's 77Kids and Little77 are selling them and they are flying off the shelves. While I totally agree that they are so cute for kids, the Gap has them for babies in sizes 0-3 months and 3-6 months, which is just silly.

While I love the style of skinny jeans for kids, I think it is more important that kids can move around easily and feel comfortable. Livie is crawling, creeping and starting to walk and I want her to be able to move freely, so I opted for these denim leggings. They are stylish, trendy and comfortable. Now I just need to find them in my size too.

Am I a bad Wednesday Mom?

Yesterday was Wednesday, my day home with Livie, and the day that Livie falls not just once, but TWICE. Yes, on my watch!

Fall #1 -- A bang and a scream. Livie is flat on her face after falling over her toy. YIKES. Some ice cubes and a few distractions later, she seems fine. Wednesday mom lesson of the day: Stay out of the kitchen.

Fall #2 -- Wet and slippery out of the bathtub and Livie decides this is a great time to poop. While grabbing a towel to catch whatever next was going to happen, Livie slips out of my arms (Don't panic, I was sitting on the floor) and falls and hits her head. YIKES. more screams, more ice and a huge welt on her head. Double YIKES. Wednesday mom lesson #2 of the day: baby first, poop second.

After feeling so guilty for being a bad mom today, I decided that lesson #3 of the day is: thank goodness today is Thursday and mom needs to go back to work.

The word of the day is....

Nothing is more exciting than watching our little ones hit their milestones and Livie, now 13 months, is starting to use her words to communicate. But like any baby girl her age, her vocabulary is building exactly in the right order. Her first words were "mama" and "dada,"followed by "hi," "bye,"... and of course her fifth word is "SHOES." A girl after her mom's heart. OK so it comes out sounding more like "SHHHHH," but her obsession with shoes is undeniable. She points at everyone's shoes. When I come home from work, the first thing she does is point at my shoes waiting for me to take them off and she then picks them up and gives them back to me to put on. Now you tell me, does this girl have her priorities right or what?

On our agenda for next Wednesday? shoe shopping for Livie!