Spooktacular Halloween Fun For Little Ones!

I don't know about you, but I love Halloween! It's such a fun time of year with all the parties going on everywhere!

Last year was little man's first Halloween, but at 6 months he was more cute than anything else. We didn't do too much more than a "costume" and some pictures. This year he's big enough to go and have fun! 

I jumped on the opportunity to take him to SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular this year! Costumes, candy, dance parties & characters, what fun!! 

 We really had a great time at SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular! Overall it seemed to REALLY be geared towards the little ones, and that was perfect for us. My favorite things- it's included in your regular park admission, it's during regular park hours (ie no late nights!) & lots of activities going on! 

Little man's favorite things- bubbles everywhere, the trick or treat trail (where he could hold his bag closed and try to give his candy/snacks back to people), the dance party & characters! 

One of the things available at a small addition fee was cookie decorating. He had so much fun playing with his cookie and eating it! 

It wasn't very crowded at all while we were there, it was quite nice! Unfortunately this event is only available a few days in the season- just weekends in October, so we were only able to go once. Next year it is definitely on our must do list! Have you been to SeaWorld's Halloween Spooktacular?  What was your favorite part?

Baby Care Center - Epcot

This post is the second in a mini series, there will be four total; one for each theme park. If you have a Disney, Travel, or Mommy blog (or any other kind of blog you think this could fit into) and are interested in using this post and the ones that follow, please contact me!  Part one was Disney's Hollywood Studios. This time we will be exploring Epcot. 

Signs to the Baby Care Center. 

Epcot's Baby Care Center is located in the Odyssey building next to First Aid. It's about as centrally located as you can get in a park with a lagoon in the middle. Strollers can't come into this Baby Care, but there is parking right outside the doors.  

Stroller parking area, right outside. 

When you first walk in, there is a little lobby area with a couch, usually occupied by dads or grandparents. There is a short hallway & then you are usually greeted by the Cast Member stationed there. 

Little lobby.

To the right is the little play room. There is a TV in there playing Disney Channel or a Disney movie, several chairs for sitting, & some toys for the kids to play with. A minor thing to consider, there is no food allowed in this room. 

Play room. 

A little further down the hall on the right are full sized adult restrooms. A nice thing to have right there. The hallway ends with the changing room. There are four large, nicely padded changing tables in this room, along with a hand washing sink. 

Roomy changing tables.

Continuing back down the hall (as if you were headed to the exit), you have the feeding room/mini gift shop. This room has a few small merchandise displays of Baby Mickey & Minnie plush, rattles, bibs, & onsies. This area has a child sized table and chairs along with high chairs and regular sized chairs for adults. 

The feeding room, with merchandise.

The next room is the kitchen & supplies room, very important!! They have filtered water, a microwave, sterilizer, bottle warmer, & a sink. They also carry all those forgot to grab before you left the house/hotel items or things you just run out of. They have bottles, pacifiers, diaper kits, food, sippy cups, formula, juice, sunscreen, sundries & some childrens medicines!

Kitchen/merchandise shop.

Items available for sale. 

Last but not least, is the nursing room. Not my favorite of the four parks, but at least it's there! This nursing room, unlike the ones at Disney's Hollywood Studios (and Disney's Animal Kingdom, which I'll cover later) is a public one. Only nursing mothers are allowed in the room, but it still holds 4 at a time. The room is quite large, it has 4 non-padded wooden rocking chairs, each side of the room has a small table between the 2 chairs, outlets all over the room for pumping or charging a cell phone, and there are dimmer lights over each chair. If the room is set up properly by the Cast, the four chairs all face the center of the room. A lot of mothers will turn their chair around to face the wall instead. Most of the time when we've gone in there, we're either the only ones or there is only one other person in there. Only once have I ever gone in (and we go at least once a month) and there been a wait, all 4 chairs occupied and one lady nursing sitting on the floor. That is far from a normal day though! 

Door to the nursing room.

Chairs in the nursing room. 

Of all four Baby Care Centers, this is our second most visited and our third favorite! Stay tuned for our next installment -Magic Kingdom! 

Super Target Super Savings!!

Today I finally hit one of my ultimate savings goals- hitting The Dollar Spot at Target on a markdown day!! Usually I hit it a few days after it starts, and it's picked through & hardly anything (good) is left. Today I hit the jackpot on some things I've kept my eye on in hopes of a markdown! 

Ok, so this part isn't Dollar Spot, but one top and one bottom were clearance & my husband picked out the rest on sale & he was very proud of himself! All cute stuff Little Man will wear and he needed more clothes in this size anyway! 

Retail: $41.00 Paid: $29.95 Saved: $11.05

So the crazy ice cube trays and the little bowls are what I've been keeping my eye on. I have a yet to be disclosed project for the trays. The rest of the stuff is for Little Man. More bowls & fun kitchen tools so he can "cook" with daddy in the kitchen; & story time books! 

Retail: $12.00 Paid: $3.60 Saved: $8.40

Everything here is from the pesky non $1 section, they had been $3 each. Some toys for the nieces & nephew to play with outside, some classic books, more cooking stuff for Little Man & a flashlight clip. 

Retail: $30.00 Paid: $9.00 Saved: $21.00

The rest is kitcheny stuff for my husband- labels for homemade item and fun ceramic picnic bowls that will be used in some way or another (most likely not as labeled). 

Retail: $7.00 Paid: $2.10 Saved: $4.90

Overall totals: 

Retail: $90.00 Paid: $44.65 Saved: $45.35 a little over 50% saved!! 

If you take out the clothing, it leaves just The Dollar Spot items, which leaves us with:

Retail: $49.00 Paid: $14.70 Saved: $34.30 70% saved!  

All in all a great trip to Target!! So check out what your local Dollar Spot has, you never know what you'll find there! 

Moms love mombo!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Comfort and Harmony for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I have proudly and happily breastfed Baby D since he was born 13 months ago so I was VERY excited to see the email asking if I would like to try out and review the Comfort & Harmony mombo nursing pillow. I really couldn't say yes fast enough!  When the package arrived I was pleasantly surprised to see that we received the Comfort & Harmony mombo Deluxe in Taggies Fashion Monkeys!  The nursery is painted in almost the same light green and it's monkey themed so it matched perfectly! We also loved that it was Taggies. Baby D (ok, mommy too) loves to play with Taggies. 

The Comfort & Harmony mombo has a two sided design to it called Firm2Soft.  One side is firm with good support for nursing and the other side is softer, great for tummy time, lounging and helping sit up. Baby D is beyond the tummy time and needing help sitting up, but he sure loves to lounge on the mombo!  He will crawl over to the chair where I normally keep it, he pulls it down and just starts lounging, sometimes with a toy or book, sometimes with his toy remote, it's very cute! It also has a soothing vibration pack inside, we'll turn it on sometimes while he is lounging and he gets an "ahhhhh" look on his face. 

You can get your own Comfort & Harmony mombo nursing pillow at Babies R Us!  You can also keep up with Comfort & Harmony on Facebook and Comfort & Harmony on Twitter

**Due to issues with the system, I did not get paid for this post by Social Spark.  I did however receive a mombo nursing pillow review, so I'm posting the review on my own.** 

Time to get outside! Spring Forward with Scotts Florida Select Mulch!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Scotts Miracle-Gro for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
It's the time of year where everyone is getting outside and working on their lawns, gardens and landscaping. Here in Florida, the sooner you start, the better, because it's just going to get hotter and hotter out there! This is where Scotts Florida Select Natural Eucalyptus Mulch comes in!

Scotts Florida Select Natural Eucalyptus Mulch is fantastic! Eucalyptus Mulch is a sustainable gardening alternative to Cypress, it is grown in Florida, for Florida! Eucalyptus Mulch is the best option for your landscape because it's sustainable, effective, natural & it's local.
Our first yard task was to re-mulch the shrubs around the front porch. Our gardening supplies included Scotts Nature Scapes mulch in Sierra Red (unfortunately it was not Scotts Florida Select Natural Eucalyptus Mulch as we weren't able to find any in Central Florida. The Nature Scapes is great too though- it comes in several colors and textures, it also has no wood waste!), gloves, pruning sheers, & yard waste bin. My husband trimmed the shrubs, got them all nice and level, weeded under them and then placed the Scotts mulch Nature Scapes Advanced mulch down. It looks great! It's amazing to see what a difference that little bit of work does!

The next project I want to take on is a whiskey barrel garden or two on or near the porch and I can't wait to get my hands on some Scotts Florida Select Natural Eucalyptus Mulch for it!

Or maybe a funky fun garden space...

Do you have any spring/summer garden or outdoor living area plans? If so, please share, I'd love to hear about them!