Grant, Watch Your Head!

Grant wearing his protective helmet

By: Davida Grant

It’s groundhog day every day in my house.  Every morning and every night before bed, my son Grant, you know the one I previously said “totally captivates me”, throws his head to the floor in complete tantrum mode.  Why?  Because he doesn’t get his way and to Grant that is unacceptable. Initially, I thought he’d stop the head throwing pretty quickly.  While his head is pretty hard, the floor — our hardwood floor — is unforgiving.  My head actually starts to hurt when I see it.  And he isn’t bothered a bit.  He doesn’t even seem to mind the resulting knots on his head, thankfully nothing serious.  Last week alone, I received three calls from his daycare about this issue.  I panicked.  How much more could that beautiful head of his take?

So the researcher in me let loose and alas I found the solution.  A helmet.  I ordered it immediately and Grant wears it EVERY WHERE.  Now when he throws his head back I simply look at him and smile.  He doesn’t know what’s going on with me and boy is he perplexed.  I actually think he took pleasure in seeing the look of fear on my face each time he threw his head to the floor.  Well Grant, point for mommy.  Now, it’s your turn.  Can’t wait to see what you do next.

Fantastic Car Seat Coat for Toddlers

By:  Davida Grant

It’s rare that I find a product that I love.  I absolutely ADORE the Cozywoggle car seat coat.

This past weekend, I attended the Femworking Conference for small businesses and bloggers.  I can’t say enough about the conference.  It was AMAZING!  But in addition to all the great information I received that hopefully will allow me to take this blog to another level (fingers crossed),  I discovered Cozywoggle. Here it is.

What I love about this coat is that it reduces the bulkiness my son Grant feels when I put him in his car seat with a standard winter coat.  Grant hates being mushed, which happens when he wears a bulky coat and I have to “fit” him into his car seat.  Not to mention, his other coats make him hot while he’s riding in the car.  Grant takes after his father.  He hates being hot and gets fired up whenever he is and I mean FIRED up!  So how does it work? I put the jacket on Grant and then unzip the sides of the jacket from the bottom all the way to the wrist areas of the jacket.  Then I lift up the backside of the jacket and put Grant into his car seat.  His back rests directly against the lining of the car seat and his arms and chest remain covered with the coat.  In essence, I virtually remove the back of his coat so that he can lay in his car seat as if he isn’t wearing a coat at all. This makes Grant immensely more comfortable.  It allows me to keep the car seat straps in one position so I don’t have to keep adjusting them based on what he’s wearing.  Talk about a time saver in the mornings.  Yay!  Check my buddy out wearing his coat.

Are there other things I like? Yep. It’s lightweight, it’s passed crash testing, and it’s also relatively easy to maneuver the zippers and back of the coat when I opt to place him in the car seat while inside my vehicle  (easiest to do it in the house though).   Bottom line, this jacket is cute, comes in great colors, is available up to a size 5T and most importantly keeps my little buddy warm and irritation-free when he’s riding in his car seat. I even bought one for my 3-year old, Simone.

Maybe Cozywoggle should hire me to do PR.  Seriously though, I love this coat!