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Its stick is a lot like painters tape. Target also sells four packs for $4 in their office supply section.

The Duralex cups on Amazon are great too, come in sizes from huge to very very small.

We also love small stainless steel mise en place bowls.

Rody, a grocery cart, and a doll stroller all get huge play at out huse and at toddler playdates. Harmonicas too and kazoos

I don't have a tidy rule, but I know from experience mine are happiest playing with a few great gifts, than lots and lots. This is the first year that my oldest will really be more excited about what is in the box than the box.

My daughter loved playsilks, my son animal crackers.

I had a similar situation and hung several pretty canvas tote bags on hooks and used one for each persons hats, mitten etc.

For all my diapers, I love the GroVia Magic Stick for a mild rash or spots (usually from teething poop). For more heavy duty rashes Triple Paste works wonders and has always washed right out of my natural fiber diapers (cotton, hemp, bamboo, so most prefolds, and fitteds), but not my oil based fiber ones (fleece, suede cloth, microfiber, so many pockets and AIOS).

Be careful with Zinc as it like to stick to oil based fibers, and avoid fish oil as it is almost impossible to wash out of anything. For a mild rash, coconut oil is very nice (I use it on my hands all the time, and in stir fry).

I have an EDSELE and find that my sheets from Lands End and LL bean stay on fine with out bunching. They have lots and lots of elastic all the way around and I think than makes the difference.

My kids are 27 months apart. We had a doll and talked about the baby in my tummy and when it would come out. I tried to keep it too the first few months. Baby will cry, eat, sleep. We are very gentle with baby. He loved blowing raspberries on my belly and we kept that up on her tummy once she came
But really it was a world shift he did not get until she came. And so we talked about things as they came. Babies can't hold toys, they don't eat cheerios. She likes when you sing her songs or hold her hand. What really heaped was letting him try all the baby stuff out. He played in the baby gym and ate breakfast for a week in her bassinet on the floor.

first floor of a triple decker with two bedroom with living room, huge dinning room, and yard. $1300 when we paid $1225 for a medium one bedroom a block away. Boston (Somerville) walking distance to Harvard.