carter's tagless labels

I have known about this issue for a while now and haven't really followed up on it. In a nutshell, Carter's Fall 2007 line of clothing is associated with causing rashes from the tagless labels. They are issuing full MSRP refunds for any clothing sent back. They even send you postage paid envelopes to send your stuff back in.

Did Meredith ever get a rash from it? I honestly don't know. She have very bad eczema for the first year of her life and we were constantly battling rashes all over her body. Could any future children of mine get rashes? Maybe. If I were to donate or sell her clothes in the future, could any other children be affected by it? Maybe.

I decided to get out all her clothes this weekend to find out exactly what we had that has these types of labels. I found 7 pant/shirt outfits, 1 fleece outfit, 4 pairs of PJs, 1 shirt, and 1 onesie. I really loved some of this stuff - there were several outfits that were my favorites. But, I'm going to send it back. We got really good use out of our stuff and I'm sad to see it go.

I like Carters - we just may have to put much of the refund back into their store.

Meredith loves clothes - she can entertain herself for an hour just picking up articles of clothing and sticking her arms through all the holes. Look how tiny that green outfit is. She wore this when she was a newborn. Here's a flashback all the way back to three or four days old when whe was wearing it.

Here's another itty bitty sleeper she used to wear. Was she really that small?

And this is totally random but it's cute. We ended the day on a good note last night in the bathtub.

Last but not least, do you ever wonder what our house looks like at the end of the day?

very expensive headphones

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Well folks, I made it back from Las Vegas all in one piece! I only donated $12 to the local economy and even managed to have a little bit of fun. I had the pleasure of meeting up with a couple girls from high school while I was there because it just so happened we found out on Facebook we were all going to be there at the same time. Who would have thought? The week was long and I came home with an absolutely fabulous gift. I received a pair of Bose QC3 Noise Cancelling headphones. Wow. These things retail for around $350. Seriously, does anyone pay that much for a pair of headphones? Don't get me wrong - I'm not complaining! They really are great and the sound is amazing. I'm just not used to getting such nice gifts when I travel.




Meredith has another ear infection so I am going on day three of 1/2 days at work since she can't go to daycare. I'm frustrated at our pediatrician's office. I called after day 2 of a fever and after going over the symptoms, they told me to wait it out for five days unless her fever got to 105. Grrrr. Yesterday evening, I got a rectal reading of 104.1 and I decided I just wasn't going to wait anymore to get her checked out. I called the pediatrician's office again and they were all booked for the evening and was told to wait it out again. Grrrr. We decided to take her up the street to a 24-hour urgent care clinic. After 2.5 hours, we walked out of there with a diagnosis of an ear infection. Hmmmmph! That's what I though all along - mom knows best. And to think her pediatrician's office wanted to wait five days of her suffering with that.




Her molars are really bothering her too. She walks around with her hand in her mouth whimpering and crying all the time. They are taking so long to come through. I don't think it has come down any further than it was a couple weeks ago.


She always surprises me with something cute when I come home from a trip. This time she had learned how to moo like a cow. Cute, cute, cute! She also calls me Mama all the time now which I love! She has known the word mama for a long time now but it used to be really random.



The floors are all done and I think it turned out great. We just need to put the trim back up and add the thresholds where the floor meets the carpet. Last but not least, we need to add a little touch up paint.





I bought Meredith some of those letters that you put on the refrigerator but she just likes to eat them or throw them on the floor. Here she is in action.

And here is the end result. Daddy has retired the letters after only a day.

18 months old

Where has time gone and where did my baby go? I can not believe she is 18 months old today. I like every stage more and more the older she gets - just when I think she can't be any cuter, she will babble the word Mama, mama, mama (to the point that her dad gets jealous). I love my big girl so much that world just can't describe it. Or she'll come running across the room at daycare and gives me a huge bear hug when I go to pick her up from daycare. I love it!



The last few weeks seem to have been a turning point in her vocabulary. It seems she's adding words on a daily basis almost. Let me try to count the words she knows- mama, dada, Tabitha, duck, uh - oh, more, another, star...I know there's more but I just can't think of them right now.



She loves to take her clothes and wrap them around her back and neck like a cape. She can entertain herself for a half hour just swapping out clothes to hang from her neck. We've retired all her clothes that have zippers. She won't keep clothes with zippers on. I'm just dreading the day when she will figure out how to take her diaper off.



She is obsessed with Elmo. She watches Elmo all the time and has learned how to switch the changer in the DVD player and press play when she wants to watch a different Elmo video. She did that twice this past weekend.



We've taken away the high chair and made it into a booster seat now that we have non-carpeted floors in our dining room so she eats like a big girl now at the big table.



She is cutting her two uppper 1-year molars right now (finally!). They are just starting to poke through the gums and she has been drooling non-stop. To the point where her shirts are soaked and I have to change her. I'm about ready to go pull out some of her cloth bibs we put on her as an infant because it's so out of hand. I hope those suckers come through fast. But she still has the bottom ones to go and I don't think they are quite ready to make an appearance just yet. Her teething pattern has followed my teething pattern recorded in my baby book to the month on every tooth she has so far.

For those of you who are interested, we're not done with our floors but we're making a lot of progress. If I weren't traveling all the time, maybe they would be finished by now. With that said, off to Las Vegas I go on Friday for a whole week.


And before I go, here are a couple cute pictures from this weekend.

greg's birthday

Friday was Greg's 33rd birthday. To celebrate, we met uncle Scott and cousin Lois at PF Chang's for lunch on Saturday. Have I ever mentioned to anyone how much I love PF Chang's? I was really saddened when I was pregnant and the thought of Asian food made me want to gag...it took a good number of months after Meredith was born for me to want Asian food again but boy am I glad that aversion didn't last.

Meredith has really mastered eating with utensils in the last month or so.

Her skills are pretty impressive.