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We got some LED bulbs from Amazon a few weeks ago and have been pretty happy with them. They are an investment so we really thought about where it made the most sense to put them based on our usage patterns, the light output available, and the type of fixtures we have in each location.

These are the ones we got
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IR7PKE

For me it's not about leaving them unattended (my son plays in the playroom by himself a lot) it's that if I'm in the shower I can't necessarily hear him and it would take longer to get to him if something did happen.

I choose organic corn because so much of the corn out there is GMO and organic products have to be non-GMO.

I think pale aqua is fairly gender neutral. I think you'd have to pair it with a very strongly gendered color like pink to change that. I do like the aqua and white and yellow but I think a lovely soft grey would be another very neutral alternative.

I decided pretty early on that eliminating everything I didn't like was going to be more trouble than it was worth. We do employ a variety of tactics on the most egregious offenders though. I've managed to return/exchange a few things but my husbands family always wants our son to open and play with his present right away so that can be hard. Anything with characters I just can't stand (Elmo, Barney, Veggie Tales etc) and can't return/exchange gets freecycled immediately. The huge ride on train my husbands' grandmother gave our son when he was 8 months old and we lived in a tiny condo got left at her house to be his special toy there.

I also have a closet full of toys that are just age inappropriate like the lovely Melissa and Doug tool bench that clearly says 3 and up that my clueless uncle got my son for his 1st birthday. I haven't decided yet whether or not to follow my mothers advice and rewrap them for birthdays and Christmases or just pull them out at an appropriate time but I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to do this in our new house.

I fully support the buy a shade you like suggestions. I spent hours and hours on the internet looking for something for my daughters nursery before finally ordering something that I liked only to discover that it wasn't plug in after all. Luckily I was able to salvage the situation by rewiring it with an ikea hanging light kit.

Fwiw this is what I got and it was relatively easy to rewire. http://www.missing-pixel.com/Tazana_Stemcell_Egg.htm

Do they have to be metal and paint? I've certainly seen similar wrapping paper that could be used to cover inexpensive bins.

My mother has a March birthday too and I always get her daffodils :)

I've been thinking about this lately. I always close and lock the windows in our two year old's room when he is in there alone to sleep but I discovered the other day when I got him after his nap that my husband hadn't locked them. I'm trying to decide what to do about his forgetfulness before something bad happens to our little climber.

I'm not even going to touch the other requirements but I taught kindergarten for years and every student I worked with (all 500+ of them) were perfectly capable of chewing and not choking on anything an adult could chew. If kids are choking often enough to justify that requirement than something else is going on (like a lack of supervision so that kids are running around while they're eating). For crying out loud my 2 year old eats everything on that list!