Going into business

After a long process that started almost 6mths ago & increased in intensity the last month, I have decided to start making & selling baby toys. I'm starting out small with just TagCubes & Blankies, but hopefully over time will be able to expand to other items. At the moment I'm just focusing on building up a stock & sending out a few feelers to judge interest, as I'm also in the process of packing & moving house. But after we're settled into our new house I hope to launch my business "MadeByAlly" on Facebook.

Loaded Baby Toys

I decided to put my first couple of TagCubes for sale on the equiv, of Ebay. Problem was I didn't get Tom to proof read my disciption first & was selling Toys made out of different green & blue drugs!!! Oh dear. No wonder they weren't selling real well. Though just as well they hadn't attracted the wrong clientel...or worse the law inforcement agencies.

The French Connection

Perhap it is true all that stuff about prenatal experiences affecting babies. The other day I discovered Josh happily chewing away on...a snail. Needless to say I was horrified...once I identified what the muck was that I had extracted from his mouth. Fortunately there have been no ill affects to date.

White Noise

Forget calming sounds of the ocean or lullabies....the best thing to fall asleep to (according to Josh) is...the mower.

He fell asleep while riding with Tom on the mower a couple of Saturdays ago. Then later in the week I was pushing him outside in his pram trying to get him to go to sleep without a great deal of success. Next thing the neighbour starts his mower & I think "great now I have bucklies chance of getting him to sleep, but promptly he fell asleep within minutes!!

On it's way

Joshua's first tooth is on it's way through. I first noticed on Sunday when he was "licking" (biting) my finger & it was sharp. Then Tuesday we had an appointment with the Child dentist (an automatic thing here) & she confirmed there was one there. It is one of the ones on the bottom. It hasn't actually cut through the gum yet, but you can see the white tip. And as for all the fuss leading up to it...it doesn't seem to be worrying him in the least. No more unsettled than normal (if fact I would say he's a little LESS unsettled), no disturbed sleep, maybe a little more drooling...but hard to tell. So all in all I thing it's going rather smoothly.