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How-To: Make homemade butt paste

Boudreaux's Butt PasteAs if babies don’t scream and cry enough, wait until your kid gets a bad case of diaper rash. Common among babies between 4 and 15 months, diaper rash is caused by infection with a yeast or fungus called Candida. And where does candida thrive? Where it’s warm and moist—like your baby’s diaper.

To treat diaper rash you could just go to a pharmacy and buy a jar or tube of butt paste, monkey butt, DESITIN, or A+D. Many homemade remedies include some of the former  with a bit of corn starch (an ingredient that can make a yeast diaper rash worse). The homemade butt paste I’m proposing is awesome. It’s close enough to butt paste,  costs a wee more (a 16 oz. jar of BP costs $18) and works much better.

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Top 7: Things New Parents Need

top 7 baby thingsWhen my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our son she immediately started making a list of things that we needed to buy (as in on the way home from el médico).

When it came time to register at Babies ‘R Us that list came in handy (understatement). And when we had bebeJosito we found out what stuff on that list we needed and what stuff we could’ve lived without.

I’m not talking about diapers, wipes, or onesies. Those are a given.  I’m talking about the little, less obvious things that are necessary to get you through the first year.

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A Day at the National Zoo

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Babies are Masters of Destruction

baby caught destroying his roomWhen bebeJosito could roll over to his stomach I thought, “Man, that is awesome.” When he could sit up I thought, “Man, that is awesome.” Then he crawled. Awesome again. Walked. Awesomer. Now he destroys.

I’m not talking a day goes by and his room is a mess. Lord no. I could only imagine the damage of a full 24-hour looting. I’m talking  four minutes of Pantera-esque destruction.

 

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Happy First Birthday bebeJosito!

1st birthday celebrationWhat a remarkable year it’s been. From prepping for childbirth to keeping up with bebeJosito during his first year. To celebrate the experience my wife and I went with a YGG theme, ordered a cake, got a few supplies, made a playlist of sweet kid’s tunes, and sent out the invites.

What a great time. The kids had a blast. The adults sang and acted like kids. And today bebeJosito is officially one year old. Happy birthday little man!
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