ExerSaucer® Life in the Amazon Triple Fun™ Saucer

http://evenflo.com/Products/ExerSaucer/Saucers/Life_in_the_Amazon/

My newest love (and my boy's love!)

This is ExerSaucer® Life in the Amazon Triple Fun™ Saucer by Evenflo.
This is the first of it's kind. Generally, as your child grows, you buy a playmat... then you buy an exersaucer, a jumper or a walker. Finally you need to buy toys for aging children.

Playmat set up

But with the ExerSaucer® Life in the Amazon Triple Fun™ Saucer you only need one item! This is a product worth the money! (At time of post, it's $99.99 on Babies R Us)

I got this late in the game. I live in Taiwan, and a lot of these things we are used to in the USA are unavailable in Taiwan...
I actually got this second hand from another westerner. But it's in like new condition, so I am satisfied.
My son is almost out of the play mat stage, but he still likes to bat the butterflies occasionally.
After that, you fold up the mat, take the toys off the stand and attach them to the saucer. It's a quick and easy transition and my son can't get enough of the saucer itself now. The dragonfly has wings that are good for teething, and currently that is his favorite toy.
After your child is of an age to walk, its just a few clicks and twists to switch the saucer into a toy for walking age to (the instructions say) 2 years old. Now, with the fact that the toys are learning toys, (the crocodile is like a puzzle!) It may last longer depending on the child!
Another fun thing, the main toys are Velcro-ed on, so you can easily remove them and take the toys with you when heading out!

It really is a multi-functional, multi-fun toy!

Charlie Banana Cloth Diapers, One Size

http://www.charliebanana.com/

 I am a first time mom and as such, I had a lot of decisions to make. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a mommy and during all that, I have always imagined myself breastfeeding my baby, but it wasn't until I was pregnant that I even began the diaper conundrum! I've only really known sposies. Every child I ever sat for used sposies, my brother.. my niece... Sposies, sposies, sposies. So when I got pregnant, I don't exactly know how, but cloth diapering came to mind very early on. So I did a very quick search and the first review I read was for Charlie Banana pocket diapers. In those first few pages I read, there was nothing on flats and prefolds or AIO's. It was just all about pockets and especially Charlie Banana. So I found their facebook page and also looked for Charlie Banana youtube videos and cloth diapering 101 videos. This made me a super CB advocate even though I hadn't even used them! Then during my 8th and 9th months, I was on bed rest due to leaking amniotic fluid and I discovered the CD board on baby center. This is when the world of CD opened up to me completely. I started getting worried that my boy would have problems as many have stated to have a variety in their stash in case certain things don't fit baby well... I had 12 CB's already and since I am in Taiwan, it's hard to get all the other brands.. Fuzzibuns, Bummis... ETC. So I just stuck with CB and hoped for the best.
After baby boy was born, I realized, since I only had one size, that I would need to wait for the umbilical code to fall off before I could even use my CB's!!
Now, I still only have 12... Hubby is procrastinating about buying more... So I am stuck in 1 day cloth, 1 day sposie...
I have to say, I am super, SUPER happy with my CB's!! My boy seems to love to poo on sposie days (For those who don't know, exclusively breast fed babies tend to poo only once every few days!) and each time was a blow out. Then, on a cloth day he had a poo that when I got the diaper open, I just knew would have been a blow out if he had been wearing another sposie!
The adjustable leg straps and the over-lap snap are incredibly useful! A lot of other brands have hip snaps like Charlie Banana, BUT they do not have an overlap snap for the center snaps, so you end up with bumped up diapers that look funny. Because of the overlap snap on the CB's, you get a smooth clean look all the way around.
For a FTM and a first-time cloth diaperer like me, adjusting to find the perfect fit for your baby may take time, but CB's leg straps are just so easy to adjust that I didn't really have a problem! For my next baby I will probably invest in some small diapers for the newborn stage, but otherwise, I am extremely satisfied with my Charlie Banana One-size Diapers, and I will be getting more VERY soon.

Nokia 820

http://www.nokia.com/us-en/phones/phone/lumia820/
So, If I  upload pictures, for the most part I will have used my cell. I bought the Nokia 820 a year ago, the day it came out.

A little back story:
I have always been an ultra Nokia Fanatic! My first phone back in 2005 was a Nokia. Bulky, ugly by today's standards, but I used that thing from age 18-20 with NO problems. It was a prepaid tracfone at the time and purchased the cheapest phone because I wasn't really into the whole cell phone thing. I was just graduating from high school and didn't think it was so important to have one, but my mom insisted.
Then my mom decided she wanted a family plan. I fought it for as long as I could. I was only using about 300 minutes a month on tracfone, didn't think I needed it. But finally gave in, and let my mom get a family T-mobile plan. Because I had had such a good experience with my cheap Nokia, I selected the one that came free with the plan. Not as ugly, not bulky, but still no camera. Loved that phone as much as the first, besides I had been seeing my sister go through phone after phone after phone... (toilets are not a phones friend!)
At 21, I got on a plane and moved to Taiwan. Since phones purchased in America are locked to the company, I purchased a cheap Nokia, with no camera. (By this time, 2008, EVERYONE had camera phones.) I used that phone for 2 years. I dropped it on a daily basis from the very first day, (on which I dropped it twice in 5 minutes, just after activating!) I dropped it in the street and it was run over by a few scooters, My dog chewed it, I accidentally washed it in the washing machine and I dropped it in the toilet! But guess what? Still worked. Yeah it was banged up pretty good, but I was fine with it.
I decided to change only because that phone was 7-11 mobile prepaid and my now husband was about to go into his one year, required term of military service. We decided to get a Ya-tai plan so that we could call each other free. I selected a better Nokia, with OMG! a camera. I used that phone for 2 years and then my husband wanted to change to different company's plan because it was cheaper.
This is when I got my first smart phone.

There was no thinking necessary. I wanted a Nokia. I loved the idea of a windows phone. I had played around with a few friends iphones and samsung s-whatevers and found them complicated and not very user friendly.
At the time I was purchasing, Nokia was getting ready to roll out the 920 and the 820. I decided to wait the extra 2 weeks and get the latest versions, so I selected the 820. (920 seemed a bit big to me!)
Over the last year, I have loved the phone. Yes, Windows phones lack more popular apps, but there are plenty of copy-cat apps to chose from that work just as well. (i.e. Aupeo radio vs Pandora)
I took me all of 20 minutes to learn to use my phone and change the settings to the way I liked.
I can find anything I want via an easy, click alphabetical search or by scrolling down. Many of my friends have commented on how quickly windows phones scroll!
I love the alarm. I can set as many as I like as well as what days for them to go off and it goes off without a hitch everyday.
Another great feature is the camera. Windows phone's camera's are AMAZING. The pictures are so clear. Last month I took a trip to visit my family in the states with my husband and it started flurrying. This was my first time seeing snow in 5 years and my husbands first time EVER. He tried using his $300 optic lens camera and his cell phone but couldn't get a picture he liked. I posted my picture to his mom on the Chat app LINE and he stole it and posted it to facebook!
Another awesome thing: I have dropped this phone.... oh I dunno... maybe 50 times in the last year. No cracked screens. functions all still work perfect. Yeah, Nokia's are bricks man!
The one thing I dislike is the small internal storage level. Feel like my phone is always full and cannot save apps to SD instead. This severely limits my app downloading ability >.<

After a year, I do not yet feel the need to update my phone, but I know, in the future, when the time comes, I will be getting another Nokia.


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