go Sean Taylor!!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Childrens author Sean Taylor has refused money from winning the Nestle Childrens Book Prize 2007, because of their marketing practices.
Read the article here http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003685452
Why is there a boycott against Nestle? Because in order to sell more of its infant formula in third world countries, Nestle would hire women with no special training and dress them up as nurses to give out free samples of Nestle formula. The free samples lasted long enough for the mother's breast milk to dry up from lack of use. Then mothers would be forced to purchase the formula but, being poor, they would often mix the formula with unsanitary water or 'stretch' the amount of formula by diluting it with more water than recommended. The result was that babies starved all over the Third World while Nestle made huge profits from this predatory marketing strategy.This was in the 70's and this is when the boycott begain. Nestle is still the biggest violator of the WHO code.

For more information on the boycott against Nestle, read here http://www.babymilkaction.org/resources/boycott/nestlefree.html

10 days till Christmas Eve!

Friday, December 14, 2007

I cant believe it. Yesterday was the Peace Preschool Christmas show. I just love it. The kids are so adorable. The 4 year olds (Andrew's class) did 4 songs. Eventually I will figure out how to get video from the camcorder onto the computer and I will put one of them up.
Tomorrow my mom and I are taking Andrew & Elaina to see the Nutcracker with the Orlando Ballet. I hope they enjoy it, and sit through it. I think they will because we have it on DVD and they like it. Elaina loves to dance while she watches it.
Sunday is our Moms Club Christmas party. That will be fun and its supposed to cool off, which would be nice.
I am all done Christmas shopping with a few exceptions. I still have to pick up the gift cards for the teachers gifts, which is easy enough. A few stocking stuffers and thats it.
Babys crying, gotta go.

Nothing but love

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Here is our noodle sporting his new bath towel that he got for Christmas.

Well now this is just ridiculous

Friday, November 30, 2007

Today I was in the boys' room putting laundry away and straightening up and I put Liam in his crib while I did that. I went down the hall to Elaina's room and when I came back he was STANDING in the crib. Um hello? Six months old. Crawling. Four teeth. Now pulling up? Is this child going to walk at 9 months old? What happened to my newborn? Perhaps his internal timetable is all screwy because he was so overdue? He is unaware that he is still supposed to be a lump laying on the floor? Hmm.

Where does the time go?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Liam is crawling all over the place, pulling things off shelves, and has four teeth! A few days ago when I posted he only had two. He really is quite toothy for a 6 month old. He is such a happy baby - he smiles at everyone and thinks I am pretty funny. I just adore him. Here is our sweet noodle. Look at that yummy baby pudge.

It is home

Sunday, November 25, 2007

The laptop that is. I am typing on it as we speak. yay! We had a good Thanksgiving. We went to Ft. Pierce to my uncle's house for the Thanksgiving meal. My cousin and her family had come down from NY so it was nice. After that, we kept heading south and went to Johns parent house in Boca till Saturday night. Today we are just kind of recuperating and catching up on laundry, grocery shopping etc. Andrew and I went out this morning for a little mommy-son time and did some Christmas shopping. Next weekend I will take Elaina out.
Thats it for now.

Just in time for Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 15, 2007

John tracked the progress of my laptop on the HP service website and it looks like it will be back home to mama on Wednesday! YAY! I know its just sad how attached I am to it. LOL