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Baby Talk: 10-12 Months
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn commission if you click through and make a purchase. At this point baby is reaching the end of his first year and it’s pretty incredible how fast this happens. From 10-12 months, your baby will definitely be on the move, exploring everything, and trying his best at attempts to communicate. Baby is now understanding more language than ever before and you will begin to see his language comprehension in your interactions together. You will see baby respond to his name more consistently and you will start seeing him follow simple directions…
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Summer at Goldfish Swim School
Disclaimer: We are provided free swimming lessons by Goldfish Swim School in exchange for collaborating blog posts. All thoughts and opinions are my own. School is out and summer is here. This is the time of year for schedule changes, vacations, and swim lessons offered at the local pool. Even with all of the changes that come with summer, we are keeping one thing constant for our littles, and that is swim lessons at Goldfish Swim School. I have thought a lot about why I am keeping my kiddos in swim lessons at an indoor swimming pool during the summer and decided to share the reasons below. Weather: I remember freezing during early…
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Introducing Seed Babies
Disclaimer: We were provided a free consultation and design and execution of our garden in exchange for collaborating blog posts. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Meet Annie from Seed Babies where her mission is to create and inspire delicious edible gardens. Annie learned to grow food while living in New York City’s East Village where she joined a community garden on her block and fell in love. Learning from her fellow community gardeners was such an amazing experience for her and is part of the reason why she started Seed Babies. She wants to give people that same experience. After living in NYC for 6 years Annie relocated…
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12 Must Have Books for Baby’s First Year
Reading is one of the most powerful ways you can promote your baby’s speech, language, and cognitive development, and it is never too early to start. Reading well before baby is speaking, is an important bonding experience and exposes him to language, rhythm, sentence structure, and new vocabulary. Books with simple and rhythmic text, simple pictures in high contrasting colors, and books that offer a variety of textures are initially the most engaging. There are so many wonderful books out there, written specifically for young children, that it might be hard to determine where to start. After observing my two babies, and using children’s book in countless speech therapy sessions, I…
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Water Safety Awareness Month
Disclaimer: We are provided free swimming lessons by Goldfish Swim School in exchange for collaborating blog posts. All thoughts and opinions are my own. May is “Water Safety Awareness Month.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, drowning is the leading cause of accidental-injury death among children ages 1 to 4. Goldfish Swim School aims to educate families during lessons by teaching steps that can be taken to prevent accidents from occurring. One of the major reasons I have both of my children enrolled in swim lessons is to help my children understand that water is a powerful and how to handle oneself around/in/out of water. If one of them were…
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Back in the Water at Goldfish Swim School
Disclaimer: We were provided free swimming lessons by Goldfish Swim School in exchange for collaborating blog posts. All thoughts and opinions are my own. After a year and a half hiatus, we are back in the water at Goldfish Swim School – Westerville, with a preschooler and a baby. We originally attended Goldfish – Dublin, so with the move to a new location I found myself wondering how lessons would be the same and/or different from our first experience. It took only one lesson at Goldfish for my preschooler to be hooked again. The baby was a bit serious during his first swim, but after a few lessons and implementing the…
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9 Earth Friendly Ways to Play
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn commission if you click through and make a purchase. We have been trying hard to take a look around our house and make decisions on how we can reduce our carbon foot print. We have joined our neighborhood compost program, we aim to use reusable grocery bags when we go shopping, and we are in the process of switching from one time use products to a more sustainable option. One area I have really been focusing on recently is how we reduce, reuse, and repurpose our play materials – especially during…
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Baby Talk: 7-9 Months
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn commission if you click through and make a purchase. If you are reading this, I’m sure you are thinking, “how is my baby 7 to 9 months old already?” It happens so fast! Baby is most likely on the move, continuing to put everything in his mouth and making some really cool changes with his language. At this stage, you will start noticing baby looking at you when his name is called. He is probably starting to use gestures – clapping, giving high fives, blowing kisses, and waving hello/good bye. You…
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Baby Talk: 4-6 Months
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn commission you click through and make a purchase. If you are reading this, it means you did it, you survived the 4th trimester! Now that the first three months are under your belt, you are probably noticing that baby is staying awake for longer stretches, becoming more in tune with the world around him, and starting to experiment more with his voice. When baby is 4 to 6 months old you will see even more changes in his language development. He will begin to really listen to the world around him…
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Discover Columbus Scavenger Hunt
Take a stroll through the Topiary Park and see if you can spot the monkey and the pug. Find the deer statues along the Scioto Mile. What can the deer see from their spot on the water? Find a must read book at Cover to Cover. The only bookstore in Columbus designed for young readers. Take a walk on a Story Walk. Search for the giant rooster at the North Market. Take a picture with it and be sure to say CHEESE! Hunt for Bison at Battle Darby Creek Metro Park. How many can you find? Take a ride on the Carousel at the Columbus Commons. What animal are you…