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The smaller they are, the higher they sit. But as they grow, that mighty high chair can become a burden, unless it grows alongside your little one and keeps them level at the table.
We at SavvyMom know and appreciate how great it is when you can find a furniture item that can last beyond the baby years. That is why we’ve put together a contest featuring The Height Right™ chair from Keekaroo™ and all its fantastic accessories.
The Height Right Wooden High Chair can adjust for kids from 6 months up to 250 pounds in size. It features an adjustable footplate, comes with an optional wooden tray, and curves to conform to your child’s natural body shape. We love that the accessories are designed for comfort, security and safety and that it’s JPMA certified.
In case you don’t win, we’ve also shared tips on what to look for when purchasing a high chair as well as locations where you can purchase the Keekaroo range of accessories. With these stylish and practical wooden chairs, meals can truly become ‘high’ society affairs.
Enter now—you could be our lucky winner!
Everyone is always so stressed out about back-to-school planning. I know there is a lot to do, and I’m certainly not trying to diminish the importance of being organized and ready for a fresh new start.
Having said that, there is only one week left of our glorious summer and do we really want to spend it running around finding the right pair of jeans and the coolest hoodies for the kids? Not really.
I have two boys. One wears a uniform and the other wears shorts (and he would wear them all year long if I let him). My strategy is to make up a quick list of what absolutely must happen before day one:
The reality is that most public schools tell you what you need on the first day, so it’s best to pop into the school supply stores that week. I know it doesn’t sound that savvy to wait, but then you get what you need. Another tip is to do your shopping in the evening when the stores are empty as most Staples or big-box school supply stores are open late for the first week back at school.
For all those ‘must have’ back-to-school fashion clothes for school, can’t they wait one more week until summer is officially over?
Enjoy your last week of summer and let the shopping happen when it needs to.
What are you doing to get ready for school? Our readers have offered some great tips on our Facebook page as well!
Even at Savvy HQ, where we make it our job to stay on top of all things new in the mom and baby world, we’re having a tough time keeping up with the evolution of the bottle. With all the choices available for water bottles, sippy cups and baby bottles (glass, BPA free, stainless steel and every variation thereof). We have a lot to choose from.
One of our latest fave options is the Pura Kiki range of bottles. These stainless steel bottles offer interchangeable lids for baby, toddler and adult so they are rather versatile and very sustainable. The people at Pura actually go so far as to say ‘Kiki is backed by an unprecedented lifetime warranty. Join the legions of happy Kiki users…your baby will thank you!’
We’re not sure your baby will actually ‘thank you’, but you might thank us if you win one of the prizes we have on offer—here’s more about the exclusive SavvyMom contest presented by our partner, Pura.
Once a week for the next 12 weeks one lucky SavvyMom reader will win* a Pura Gift Package valued at $50. Each winner will have their choice of:
Enter to win and get helpful tips on what to look for when picking an infant bottle.
When it comes to the winter and getting the kids ready for the snowy outdoors, I’m reminded of the scene in my husband’s all-time favourite movie, A Christmas Story, where Ralphie’s little brother is so bundled up in snow gear, he can barely walk. What they don’t show is the immense struggle it is to actually get the kids dressed for winter weather in the first place. Or the chaos that can occur when hunting for lost mittens or realizing you’re dressing them in still-too-wet clothing (never mind about when you’ve finally got them dressed and they’re calling out for the potty!).
So in order to keep our sanity this month, we did a little poll at the office and asked everyone to contribute a tip on how they handled the frosty morning routine. My tip: create a designated ‘drying zone’ such as a laundry rack in the back hall, on top of a rad (my solution, one of the benefits of living in a 100 year-old house), hooks in the laundry room etc. for winter clothes. Make sure everything gets placed there at the end of the day to avoid soggy heaps of clothing which are still damp the next morning.
Here are some more savvy tips from the Savvy team:
What do you do to make the winter morning routine more manageable?
When Amy was in her third trimester, we visited a local baby store to shop for the few items that hadn’t been passed down or gifted to us. First on our list was a baby car seat.
What you need to know about me is that I love taking advice; it seems so much easier than researching. I do realize that advice from salespeople is somewhat tainted by commissions, product availability, trends, and personal opinions, but I view it as a starting point. In the case of shopping for our first car seat, the salesperson was a teenager who spoke like a valley girl, stating everything as a question: ‘Cha, I’m sorry? Like we don’t carry car seats here?’ And as if that wasn’t bad enough, ‘Anyways, car seats are like, really bad for babies?’ Amy informed the youth that perhaps this wasn’t sound advice to provide to new mothers, especially when it significantly restricts their mobility options (like getting home from the hospital, for example). The girl retracted her statement but still suggested a two-hour maximum car seat allowance to prevent ‘like, the spine from curling up?’ As much as this dimwit’s opinion infuriated me, I was haunted by visions of my hunched-over 10 year-old trying to play with the other boys and girls but only being able to stare at his shoes.
Dire outcomes aside, Baxter successfully went on lots of errands in his new car seat, falling soundly asleep on almost every occasion. He visited Amy’s friends and family in Sarnia, then Brantford, and only bellowed when he had a legitimate beef (Sir Pukes-a-Lot demands a rapid mopping up).
A week and a half later, the wagon was packed to the brim and we were heading out on our first major road trip to Boston where fun and adventure greeted us around every corner. Stay tuned.
If you’ve been following our gripping tale, you’ll know we’ve been traveling up the eastern seaboard of the United States of America from Boston to Topsham, Maine. At this stage in our journey, we switched from interstates to smaller highways, really enjoying the scenery, fudge shops and cheese dispensaries along the way.
Stopping in Freeport for lunch, we discovered just how hot it was. On the advice of ‘experts’, we have yet to apply sun screen to Baxter. Instead, we covered him like a vampire and scurried past factory outlets to the extremely air-conditioned restaurant. There we saw a family with a Snap-N-Go, a clever stroller that lets you snap a car seat on a stroller frame without removing your child. Knowing we could never check the Humvee (a.k.a. our over-sized stroller/pram) for our upcoming flight to Vancouver, this seemed the perfect solution. (We ended up acquiring a Snap-N-Go for $40 from our local used shop when we got back home.)
Amy’s good friend and fellow glass artist, Stephanie Sersich, her husband Tom, and their two children, Obi and Amos, warmly welcomed us to Tompsham. Obi (pictured with Baxter) is a month older than Baxter and Amos is 13 months. An impressive signer, with his a goofy smile and jerky arm movements, Amos can communicate that it’s raining outside, or that he wants juice versus water, or that he’s sleepy. Hands appear easier to control than tongues, a trait that remains as we age.
I have begun signing with Baxter in an ad hoc manner, as there is no doubt in my mind how effective it is. (Granted, ‘sky eat’ is as good as we’ve got so far.)
It was a great visit with generous hosts and a peek into our future should Baxter become a big brother—one step at a time people.
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Looove winning free things hope I get this one! As a single mom do not spend much on cosmetic things would be a treat!