Winnings and Showing You My Butt(sort of...)

If you are looking for my butt, you'll find it near the bottom of this post, of course. Sort of.


Usually, I whine that I don't win anything.


Hubs has awesome luck- he's won golf weekends, golf bags, golf clubs, shoes, countless restaurant gift cards, and even this laptop that I have hijacked from him.


He's a lucky duck. (Did you doubt it? He is married to me afterall.)


Okay, okay, I had to pause typing there for a full two minutes to stop laughing, thinking of Hubs' reaction if I read him that last line.


But, I actually have won a few things lately.



These first two in the same day.

Flip Along Fun Book

I won this over at I Love My 5 Kids.

It's a really cute book for preschoolers/beginning readers. The pics are of Monkey and Bear, lounging in my bed, reading together.

How it works is that the kids pick any panel in the first two columns and then in the third, they find the panel that has the animals on them that they picked in the first two, and the numbers will match up. Like 1 frog in the first one, 3 mice in the second, and then they find the third panel that has a frog and mice on it and it will say something like "All 4 danced a jig" or something like that.

Anyway, it holds their attention, it's not a book that is getting old for them, and Monkey likes to look at the numbers and say 3+3=6 or whatever the math of that little story is that they created.

It's also very sturdy, so my destruct-o boys would have to work hard to tear it up.

Big thumbs up.

Kid Basix Safe Sippy2

I won this from Raising My 4 Sons.

No pics of Cub using it, as he is a nonstop hose of oozing snot right now, and no one wants to see that.

This is quite possibly the coolest sippy ever. It's non-toxic, stainless steel, and it transitions from a sippy to a straw cup(straw attached inside so it doesn't get all chewed up and nasty). It's actually non-spill, unlike some other sippys that only claim to be. And the stainless steel doesn't get all gross, like some of our platic sippys.

Being the cheap-o that I am, the price threw me a bit($14.95), but it's very durable and, like I said, doesn't get all gross, so it would be worth the investment, rather than buying cheaper ones that have to be replaced all the time.

Cub loves it, especially as a straw cup, since he's convinced that he's a big boy.

Hip-T

I actually won this several months ago, from Supahmommy. That was back before she realized that we actually knew each other in real life and I was nervous that she'd toss me off her blog if she realized that we were actually in the same mom group together a lifetime ago, so this little gem was delivered to my mom's house. OMG, I sound like such a freak. She just finds this amusing.

Anyway, I had actually seen an ad for these things in a magazine in the peds office and thought they were just the coolest things- even borrowed the magazine from the peds office so that I wouldn't forget to check them out when I got home(hey, if you knew how often I had to take my boys to the peds office, you wouldn't think anything of my taking a magazine or fifty). Even they joke that my family singlehandedly pays all their bills. I was so excited that there was a giveaway for them on Supah's blog the very next day.

It's like a band that goes around your pants- giving the impression of an undershirt, without the bulk of one- and it stays in place, so if you are bending over(putting your kids in a stroller, tying a toddler's shoe, etc), your underwear or mommy fat or tramp stamp(yes, I have one...it was before they were called that! And no, the term didn't originate because I got one, either) doesn't show.

Monkey took this pic of me leaning over the tub, which explains why it's a little blurry. So there's my butt- but only sort of because of this hip-t.

They work really well- though if you are debating between two sizes, go for the smaller of the two. If only they could suck in some of my muffin top, they'd be like a miracle creation.

I did wear this with my gigantic sucker-in-er underpants that come up to my boobs. It's nice to know that THOSE won't be showing when I lean over, either.

So, there's my round-up of some really cool stuff that I won. Woo-hoo! If I can figure out how to get free stuff, I'll start doing some giveaways here, too! ;)

P.S. I'm now on Twitter- not that I know what I'm doing on there: shellthings