No More Milk Scandals

NO MORE MILK SCANDALSSUPPORT WOMEN TO BREASTFEED

Thousands of babies fell seriously ill in China because the milk they drank was contaminated with melamine. Some even died. These babies were not breastfed because
baby milk companies convinced parents that their products were better than breastmilk
women lacked adequate support to breastfeed their babies at the work place
women lacked correct information about infant feeding.

Evidence points out how vital breastfeeding is to infant survival with health. Women are being forced to stop breastfeeding and give their babies infant milk powders because of lack of facilities and support to women to breastfeed and increasing commercial interference in infant feeding.
Potential disasters are waiting to happen across the world. We’ll deliver our call to world leaders to implement the International Code for Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly Resolutions, ensure breastfeeding friendly workplaces for women at the World Health Assembly in May 2009.

RAISE YOUR VOICE TO SUPPORT WOMEN TO BREASTFEED.

Sign the petition now…
To world leaders:
As citizens, we call for a stop to commercial interference in infant nutrition, the strict implementation of the International Code for Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and ensuring support for women to breastfeed. We urge you to create/implement legislation that restricts infant milk manufacturers from promoting their products as breastmilk substitutes/baby foods, to have a budgeted plan of action to promote and support women for optimal breastfeeding and to ensure breastfeeding friendly workplaces with adequate nursing breaks in the public and private sector so that working women are not forced to abandon breastfeeding.

Sign the Petition here: http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx

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Bathtime Fun!

I thought I would post some bath pictures since I haven't posted any in a long time. Claire loves to lay in the water and "swim"--AKA kick her feet and blow bubbles!


She likes kicking because it is an even better way to splash. She also likes putting her face in the water, but only one side at a time, so it doesn't get her nose wet.

Regular splashing is great fun, too, of course!

She likes to help me "wash" her hair. I like to put it sticking straight up, like this:

The Infamous "Happy Elmo" Song

Eep...Claire turned 21 months last week, AND I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE! That means...IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS....I WILL HAVE A TWO YEAR OLD! WOW! Ok, so here is her favorite song ever...enjoy:

Woke up Dry!

Today Claire woke up dry and was saying "Potty!" before I was even awake. I sat her on the potty, and she went. I was so excited about her waking up dry. How do you even night-time train?!? I kept saying WOW and signing it. Then when I went pee Claire said, "Mama, Potty, WOW!" and enthusiastically signed it over and over! :)

Seriously Flocked

Our church youth group flocked our yard with 50 bright pink flamingos. It was a fundraiser that they did. Claire loved them. She was calling them "Quack, Quacks!"

Toddler Milestones

Here is a cool chart of Toddler Milestones. At the bottom you can click for different age groups: http://www.babycenter.com/0_milestone-chart-19-to-24-months_1496591.bc Neat, huh?!

Adorable Easter Outfit

Here is Claire with her life-sized Barbie friend from Glama Lynn and Grandpa Jason. It's actually still bigger than her!



She loves saying "Barbie" and calls anything that looks like a Barbie, like the Disney Princesses, "Barbie." She likes to give Barbie kisses.

She also likes to help Barbie talk on the phone. I'm guessing it's Ken.

I love this little Easter dress. It's actually a 3T so I'm hoping it still fits her next year. It was a little big! But man, look how long her legs are! These shoes are a 6 1/2 and fit perfectly; thanks Oma and Opa!

The butterfly and all the flowers and bunnies are raised. It's quite possibly the cutest dress I've ever seen. So how long after Easter is over can I have her wear this?

Chatty Claire-Bear

Here is a video of Claire saying some cute things:



Claire enjoys eating these Pedialyte ice pops. I think she is teething as she loves to gnaw on them where her teeth are coming in.

Special Birthday Friend

Claire has a special "Birthday Friend." They actually were born on the same day! Same hospital, same doctor even! It was really funny when we were talking about this. Melissa said there was someone next door to her just screaming her head off (me birthing Claire) but it finally stopped about 2 or 2:30. Ha. Claire was born at 2:10...then there was the placenta. I laughed and told her, HA! That was me. So I got to apologize to her for screaming while she was getting ready to have Elle.

Here is our playdate with Elle:
Claire is mad jealous of all of Elle's gorgeous hair! Ok, maybe I am.

Claire gets into her car now without opening the door. She has been doing this for awhile now, but this is the first time I was able to capture it on the camera! Dukes of Hazzard, watch out!

They had a good time playing and their mommies had a good time chatting. :)