Mommycon!

I never heard of Mommycon until late last year.  Since having Adam, a passion for breastfeeding, babywearing, and cloth diapering has blossomed.  I am in various facebook groups, and saw this "mommycon" mentioned last year.  It seemed pretty cool, so I looked into it, and they happened to be having one in Chicago this year so of course I bought tickets.

It's basically what it sounds like, a conference for moms, with a big focus on babywearing, breastfeeding, cloth diapering, and natural parenting in general.  They had a big exhibit hall and various "seminars" or lectures throughout the day. I really enjoyed it, but I think it would have been more helpful if I went last year (a lot of the info was general/intro info to cloth diapering and babywearing, etc).  I got to meet some pretty prominent people in these domains, and it was awesome to hear the CEO of Cotton Babies (cloth diapers) speak.  She was so humble and smart and to hear how she came from practically nothing to growing the most popular cloth diaper brand out there was pretty amazing.

I got a ton of swag but by the end of the day I was completely exhausted.  Everyone said the best part is at the end of the day when "The Baby Guy" gives away tons of cool stuff.  There were over 1300 people there, and I never really win anything, but I figured I made it that long, I might as well stay another 45 minutes.  Imagine my shock and surprise when they called my number!!! I couldn't even believe it!! I won a Britax carseat and stroller travel system!!!!!  So awesome :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Snow Day!

We had a ton of snow Superbowl weekend.  We took full advantage of it and covered Adam from head to toe in his snow gear.  He wasn't really too sure about it all at first, and definitely didn't know how to walk in it (as evidenced by a complete faceplant into the snow when I was literally 2 inches away from him...whoops!)
He rallied and eventually decided to explore a little.  He liked trying to throw snowballs and watch Bailey be crazy and have a blast running in the snow like she usually does.