…now there’s a book to help you explain it to your child!

In the book My Beautiful Mommy (due out, sadly, on Mother’s Day), a woman undergoes a nose job and tummy tuck and — voila! — ends up “even more” beautiful than before.

Please. gag. me.

Good thing the book is written in a “friendly, non-threatening” way.

Did you know there’s something called a Mom Makeover for women who’ve had kids? It’s a tummy tuck-breast implant combo. Sort of defeats the purpose of beautiful sites like this, doesn’t it?

Day 10: 29 Days of the Everyday

My special friend and former co-worker, Christy, introduced us to Sandra Boynton just a few months after Lucy was born.

I’m sure most of you know of her famous books, including The Bellybutton Book and Snuggle Puppy (a love story). If you don’t, pick some up — they’re hilarious and have some excellent adult-geared humour woven in, a favourite element of mine for any children’s books, movies etc.

Lucy, for whatever reason, really attached to Moo Baa La La La. Now she can recite parts of it with us. When she says la-la-la (with her tongue outside her mouth instead of in — how charming!), we know exactly what she means. Doing this little routine has helped us through many a long car ride.

Before there were any grandchildren on the horizon, Eric’s mom bought this Little People Christmastime is Here! book because it looked like such a fun read.

And let me tell you, that shrewed lady was right. It’s the best. book. ever.

How many days weeks are we past Christmas? And do you think I can get the book out of Lucy’s little hands? No! We are still reading about Ho-Ho coming, and packing presents, and the cute-stumpy Little People kids whispering in the fat man’s ear! Seventy bajillion times! In a row! Lucy adores this book.

It’s got more than 50 lift-the-flaps (which she has memorized, by golly. Ask her where the star or cookies or airplane is, and she will find it without any hesitation), made of durable, hard, glossy cardboard stuff. Lift-the-flaps are awesome for babies and toddlers, but many of ours have fallen apart under Lucy’s exuberant/curious fingers. But these are super sturdy. The illustrations are incredibly colourful and interesting, and an entire page has numbered flaps like an Advent calendar — so it encompasses learning about shapes, objects, colours and numbers, on top of Christmas.

(And FYI, it avoids the whole religious aspect of the holiday, and focuses on decorating, toys, caroling, family and Santa.)

Based on the plethoa of reviews on the Interweb, Lucy and I are certainly not alone in the love for it.

I considered trying to stash this away in our Christmas packing cases, but couldn’t get it out of her hands long enough to do so.

We have placed a moratorium gently asked that people not buy Lucy toys for her upcoming birthday, and in keeping with that theme, are going to buy a stack of the other available Little People flap books (Look! A brand spakin’ new one that’s not even in stores yet!). She’s going to love them. And thankthelord, we won’t have to read about reindeer and snow in July.