Feed Me Books Friday: Board Books

This week at Adventure of Motherhood I'm sharing our love of board books.

With two little ones, we have our fair share of board books.  I never thought of these as "teething" tools, but honestly, they work wonders.  After my friend told me that's one of their purposes, I started looking at them with a whole new respect.  

...And a little paper never hurt anybody!   

Touch and Feel Puppy, Kitten, Farm Animals, it's a boxed set of all 3.  My almost 2 year son, loves these books.  He likes to "tickle" the puppies and the kittens.  It's very cute to see how he interacts with these books.  The books also help teach colors, textures and body parts.

Finger Puppet Friends: Little Duck, Little Ladybug, Little Lamb and Little Bee, it's a boxed set of all 4.  We originally purchased this for my daughter because her nickname is Ladybug and well, I'm a sucker for anything with ladybugs on it.  The set is adorable.  I use my thumb to wiggle the puppet, that way I could hold the book and turn the pages.  Now my daughter is old enough to be the puppeteer and "read" the story to my son.  I love how the story makes it personal and includes the child as their friend.  

We have all of these books and my preschooler and toddler love them!


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How to Fix Untucked Dress Shirts

If you have a little boy in your home and you attend religious services of some sort, then you might run into this same problem:

Untucked dress shirts!  It drives me crazy!

We'll have Hunter dressed for the meeting and the next thing you know, he's running through the house screaming and carrying on like almost 2 year old little boys do, and his shirt tails are hanging out of his pants.  When he was a little baby, I used to use this method all the time, but as he got older, it was easier to keep them tucked in.  Now he's like a madman and there's nothing that holds him still.  So we're back to the method.  

Now there are a couple of stores that sell dress shirts with a "onesie" type fastener, but they can be rather expensive. 

So I wanted to share how we keep our little boy's shirt tucked in nice and neatly:

Sheet Straps, or some of you might call them Sheet Suspenders.  

You know what I'm talking about right?  The little contraptions you use in your bedroom to keep your sheets from flipping off the mattress.  You can buy them at Walmart for less than $5 and you can even order them on Amazon.com (so if you have Swagbucks and redeem them for Amazon gift cards, well, they'd be free for you!)

This is what we do:

On the bottom front of the shirt, fasten the sheet straps on each side of the button.

Have the baby lay on his tummy and fasten the sheet straps about a hand's width apart on the backside of the shirt.

And that's it!  Honestly, it's the easiest way I've learned to keep his shirts tucked in.  

He looks so handsome!

It works for us and I hope it helps you too!

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