Lobsters
My kids are pink. I took them out for a walk yesterday, not planning to be out long at all and therefore quite unprepared. But, of course, Sam could see lots of kids down at the playground for our complex and how can you say no when your child is saying, “I want to be wif all the ofer childwen!” And so, we walked further and stayed out longer than I’d expected. And now I have a boy with a red ear, a baby with a slightly pink face, and a mom with a guilty conscience. Oddly enough, I blogged about this very thing when I first started two years ago - it was my fourth post. And I just went to go look at it for old time’s sake. I had two comments on it. Would you like to know who they were?
One - Mama D. I love D. She’s been with me from the very beginning (well, not really. She found my blog about seven posts in and then went back and read all of my previous posts. That’s about as beginning as you can get, I suppose.) She’s someone who I feel I really know well, and our relationship has surpassed the regular internet friendship. And I’m so excited that she’ll have her second child soon, so we can continue to commiserate.
Second - Daring Young Mom. Isn’t that funny? She was my very first commenter on my blog ever. It was probably the only time she ever came over here, and it was probably because I left her a comment saying I had just started blogging. I remember how very excited I was getting my first comment. All of a sudden the whole blogging thing made sense, and I was hooked.
But now, on to sunscreen. The other reason I let my kids roast yesterday is because I didn’t actually have anything in the house to put on them sunscreen-wise. I had not yet done my research to find a product to use that wasn’t laden with toxic chemicals. So I’m all over that today. If you haven’t yet found it, Skin Deep is a really helpful site when it comes to finding products that are safe and don’t contain dangerous ingredients. I think my husband found it back when all that stuff was coming out about the dangers of ingredients in baby soaps and shampoos. We now use it to check the products we already have, as well as researching those we might want to buy. You can look up individual products to find out how the products you use are ranked, or you can search various types of products to find the safest to bring into your house. I just printed out the list for baby sunscreens (it ranks them according to both health hazard and sun hazard, and the safest are listed last with the more hazardous listed first - it’s backwards - so I can see that the Coppertone water babies that I was using last year is like an 8 on the hazard scale…excellent) and will use it today to help me find something I can feel good about. And then maybe I can stop calling Robby Robster.
If anyone has a sunscreen they feel good about as far as the ingredients and the sun safety please let me know. I’d love to have a personal recommendation for this. Steph? Ashlee? Kate? Charline? You’re the first that come to mind on this one.
Labels: Learn More Every Day, Mommy friends
i like the one from Kiss My Face. for me, it has to be odorless or as odorless as possible. no likee stinkee fake scented kids!
: )
Comment by kate — April 17, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Last year I really liked Alba Organics for kids & adults- they were so inexpensive and worked well! And you just reminded me that I forgot to get sunscreen and I leave for Florida in the morning!!
Steph
Comment by Adventures In Babywearing — April 17, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
I love you too!
I feel exactly the same way about you. The funny thing about the internet is no matter how much you feel that way, you always seem to feel a bit worried and paranoid that saying it out loud might creep people out or something. And by ‘you’ I mean me. So it’s nice to hear you say you feel the same. And probably nice for you to know that you could never freak me out. For real.
And on to the pinkness. I’ll say it again just like I did on that post SO long ago… Over here in Canada it’s just not really an issue yet. There is still a bit of ice lingering in my back yard. BUT, I had a similar thing happen last summer while we were driving home on a long trip and stopped halfway to give A a chance to play and run off some steam. It was SO HOT! I didn’t really think about it until we were packed back into the car and her poor little face was beet red. I was almost sick. Luckily, most of the redness was just due to the fact that she was really hot and sweaty and she actually wasn’t really burned at all, just a tad bit pink. Still, I was ashamed that I hadn’t thought of sunscreen or been prepared at all.
Let us know when you find something you like.
Comment by Mama D — April 17, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
I just went to the sunscreen website, oh my gosh. I had no idea there were so many products out there. Last year we used Banana Boat for babies, no tears. Ha, Laurel cried and cried after accidentally wiping her arm across her eyes. Will never use that again.
Comment by mamacita tina — April 17, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
Mamacita, that totally reminds me of a time we were at the shore. Somehow Sam got baby sunblock in his eye and it RUINED OUR WHOLE DAY. We had to leave the beach and wash his eye out about twenty times. It was awful. A whole day of vacation spent with him crying and us trying to decide if we should go to the ER. So much for “gentle.”
Comment by Beth — April 18, 2008 @ 6:52 am
Yeah, I’ve had my lobster moments… Rebecca Robster. I once let a child I was babysitting get a mild burn. OOPS!
Comment by Rebecca — April 18, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
hola!!! I only use California baby sunblock on X. David and I use alba irganica kid kind on our tattoo-ey parts but California baby is my favorite by far (and we’ve tried many!) it is expensive but last a really long time because its so thick. And omg! I’m just reading you’re moving! Must read more to get the scoop!
Comment by Ashlee - Mama's Nest — April 18, 2008 @ 8:51 pm