A Playard to Love: Bright Starts InGenuity

I was really, REALLY excited to receive my first piece of baby gear to review for my new baby boy: the InGenuity Playard from Bright Starts.  Since we weren’t planning on having another baby (whoopsie!), we had given away all our baby gear long ago, and being able to review and keep these items is a real blessing!  It was fun to get this playard out, set it up, and imagine our little boy-to-be who will soon be using it!

Here’s what I like about this playard:

  • The bassinet can be inclined if baby needs to sleep at an angle!  Totally cool!  It is really easy and takes only seconds to change from flat to incline.  They call this feature Sleep Easy Incline.

  • It has a sweet changing table.  The sides on the table are nice and high so baby can’t roll off of it, and the middle is nice and flat so you don’t feel like your kid is always rolling toward the center.  Also, you can easily rotate the changing table to the side without totally removing it when you’re not using it.
  • Extra-large storage space on the side to hold all your diapers, wipes, ointment, etc.!  I never had this with our old playard and am SO looking forward to taking advantage of this feature!
  • Easy to set up, and easy to take down.  This is important to me because I am mechanically deficient and seem to make everything harder than it should be!  It also has a really awesome, totally unique feature called One Less Step that allows you to fold the playard without removing the bassinet!  Say what??  Doesn’t that rock?  It’s the only playard out there with that feature! *Love*
  • It’s easy on the eyes. I won’t lie.  This thing is going to be sitting in my living room and I want it to be aesthetically pleasing!!
  • It comes with a very handy carrying case which makes it easy to tote when you need to travel.

You can get this bad boy at Target (where it qualifies for free shipping on select baby gear!)  or Amazon, and if you’re looking for a great, functional, pretty playard with a nice price, I’d say the BrightStarts InGenuity is the way to go!  I’m so glad to have it in our home as we prepare for the arrival of our little boy!

Like I said up there in yonder first paragraph, Bright Starts gave me this playard to review!  All opinions are my own, and this post was written solely by moi.

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When the girls are happy, mama’s happy!

I am super, super, super excited about this review. A) because I am a huge dork and get geeked out about things I love and b) because I am all about nursing, as you probably know. And in a few months, the girls are gonna be back in action nursing a new baby for approximately one to two years!  Due to having gained most of my pregnancy weight in my BEWBS, I already needed a new bra or two to wear.  Tricia has been raving about Bravado Designs for months, so I contacted them (yes, I am a total ho.  Feel free to judge me.) to see if I could review one of their nursing bras that was also good for pregnancy.  And ta-da!  They said YES!  And I have been, for the past 36 hours, in total, wonderful comfort thanks to this:

The Bravado Body Silk Seamless nursing bra.  It is soo comfy!  I haven’t worn a bra without wires in for-ev-ah, so I was a little nervous about that but WOW this gives plenty of support without underwire and it really is like a second skin.  I could not love it anymore.  I went through lots of nursing bras in the combined 36 months that I nursed Joshua and Sophie, and I never had one anywhere near this nice!  It’s got lots of rows of hooks on the back to expand with your expanding pregnancy/nursing bustline, and it has removable molded cups that put juuuuust the right of material between my skin and my shirt.  I like a wee bit of lining and this is perfect – plus, you can totally remove them if you don’t want them, or when you need extra room for nursing pads. Oh! And even though I am obviously not nursing yet – I went ahead and gave the clasps a try to see how easy they were to open and close with one hand. SO easy!  And they lie flat under your clothes.  This whole bra stays nice and invisible under your clothes.  I wore a pretty fitted tank top the other day and you couldn’t see anything underneath – it was perfect!

This bra comes in lots of pretty colors and I am DEFINITELY getting another one.  I love it so much that I can’t wait to try out all the other Bravado styles!

Bravado is also a company that is all about helping other women, which I love!  Along those lines, in support of Breastfeeding Awareness Month, Bravado is giving you the opportunity to be a HERO to a favorite organization of yours that helps women.  Go here to Bravado’s site and nominate an organization that is exlempary in helping women.  If your organization is chosen, Bravado will donate 1,800 nursing bras in YOUR NAME!! You can nominate as many times as you like, and you will be entered to win a Bravado nursing wardrobe of your own.  So head over to the site and be a hero – there are only a few days left to enter!

Thanks Bravado for giving me this awesome bra to review. I know I’ll enjoy it for many, many months to come!

**Updated to add** Bravado Designs now has a 20% off coupon code you can use!  It is good through Labor Day, Monday September 6th.  Just enter LDAY-195 at checkout for 20% off your online purchase.  Rock on!!

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Review: LEGO Ramses Pyramid

When LEGO contacted me about reviewing this Ramses Pyramid game, I was like, “Hmm this looks a little too advanced for my six-year-old.”  So, I decided to let my 10-year-old LEGO-crazed nephew review it, and it was a HIT!  As a matter of fact, my sister-in-law even said she had been considering purchasing this as part of their home school curriculum!

This LEGO game is great because well, first you have to BUILD it, so it covers all different skill sets.  It’s also set up so you can establish some of your own rules, and the play is very entertaining and action-oriented.  So, it’s a game, it’s a history lesson, it’s a strategy-builder, and it’s a toy – all in one!   My nephews have really enjoyed it and if you have a LEGOmaniac in your family, I am sure they will too. It retails for only $29.99 and you can get it at Lego.com!

LEGO sent me this game to review.  I posted my opinions after consulting with my LEGO expert nephew and his mom.  This post was not edited by LEGO.  Like I would let anyone else edit my blog posts! Please!! 🙂

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