TLC VOX BOX Review

It's no secret that I LOVE getting chosen for these Vox Boxes!  They are so much fun.  This time I was sent the T.L.C Vox box full of complimentary products for testing from Influenster.   Haven't signed up and want in on the fun?  Let me know and I'll send you out an invite to join the fun!  Everything here is my personal opinion of the products that were sent to me.

My TLC Vox box included the following items:

Neosporin's new NEO TO GO:

This guy is a handy little fellow especially with two kids.  Clip it to the hand sanitizer on the diaper bag, it's worth taking with you!  I LOVE this.  Especially since my family can't seem to keep track of where the tube of Neosporin is ever.   Just spray, hold child still long enough to dry and your done!  Just like with normal Neosporin cream, cuts heal faster & better!

Shell Fuel Rewards Card

I never knew these existed, and guys they are FREE you just have to sign up...That's it.  Sign up for the rewards card just like any other store and use it a the pump, you save .03 cents a gallon EVERY FILL UP, your second fill up you save .25 cents a gallon.  Use it in the store and you earn more off we've seen .10 cents off a gallon a few times already!  For me going to Shell isn't that convenient so my husband uses it more than me but it's actually WORTH going to a different station than I normally would (AKA: the station that is IMPOSSIBLE to pull out of in traffic) to get the savings!

PUFFS TO GO

 These guys are great for tossing in a diaper bag/purse/carry all/stick in a coat pocket, cause who doesn't need a tissue at the most random times?!  Now you can get them in Puffs brand, they must have cursed me because immediately after receiving my VOX BOX I was hit with a head cold...whomp, whomp.  SO I've already gone through my entire pack and need to restock my house with more to go packs.  You really don't realize how handy they are until you run though a whole pack and then have NONE!

Ivory Bar Soap

Who hasn't used Ivory at some point in their lives?  I mean its been around for 130 years....130 years people!!!  They have to be doing something right!  I liked this cause I could use it in the shared tub with Addison and Alex both and didn't have to worry that it would make Mr. Sensitive break out in a rash like some of the super cool, bright purple, grape smelling stuff does that Addison loves so much.  99.4% pure soap products not synthetics, who doesn't love that.  I mean check out the soap you are currently using I bet it doesn't compare.    And if washing up with it isn't enough to convince you, check out the millions of uses for Ivory including making your own laundry soap and THIS:

AVON ANEW Reversalist Wrinkle Smoother

This was weird.  To be honest I wasn't a huge fan.  It made my skin feel super soft but like it never dried.  I'm lucky to not have many fine lines/wrinkles anyway so maybe I was not a good example of how it works but I for sure wasn't excited over this one.  

Breyers Gelato Indulgences

Yum.  That's really all I need to say about this one.  YUM-FREAKIN-UM!  Delicious!  Meijer was actually giving out coupons and free samples of the chocolate version when I went to pick up my free tub and the shelves were barren so I had to wait a few weeks to pick one up...OH man they are good!!!

Alex Is Four Months Old!

Like all that I do lately, this is a little late but give me some credit I did go through the whole day Sunday thinking that it was the 5th not the 6th.  I thought I'll make sure I take Alex's 4 month photos a day early so that I don't get caught up in a work week and unable to accomplish it....little did I know I wasn't early at all.  Duh.

Anyway, Alex is Four months old already!

I don't have a length for him but we just went to the doctors a few days ago for a flu like virus that both kids picked up and Alex weighed in at 16lbs 12oz.  He continues to grow way to quickly.

He is comfortably wearing 3-6 month clothing, I'll be surprised if he doesn't outgrow most of it before the 6 month mark.  We're currently squeezing him into the last of a pack of size 2 diapers but the boy is technically in size 3's.

Still exclusively breast fed, still taking 4oz in his bottles.  Eats roughly 6-8 times a day, depending on the day and depending on if I've been gone at work all day or not.  He wants to nurse a lot on the nights that I've worked all day.
 I'm trying to look into donating to the Bronson Hospital Milk bank as I have a insane large freezer stash of milk.  Large as in a little more than 800 oz of milk, enough that if I completely quit pumping, completely quit breast feeding him I could make it more than a month still on breastmilk.  Pretty impressive, but I don't see me needing it and I still have plans to make it to a year of breast feeding so I may as well donate some of the excess right?  If not to Bronson then possibly another form of donation.

He is still a very easy going happy boy.  If you want him to smile you don't have to say a word, just look at him and give him a big smile and he's all smiles back at you.  Completely adorable.

Alex is trying like crazy to sit on his own, he's kind of perfecting the "lean my torso way over my legs and it's kind of like sitting" position.  If you lean him against anything to prop him upright he immediately topples forward in a effort to sit up on his own.

Rolling from back to front without any problems and occasionally gets from belly to back somehow (I think just momentum from the back to front), he was practically rolling across my moms floor the other day.  He only tolerates his belly for about 3-5 minutes before he starts to cry, the kid has hated tummy time since birth!

Making all kinds of noise, mostly squawks and babbles, no mommy yet, or "add-a-sin" like his sisters trying to teach him. ;)

This month we took the kids on a  trip to an indoor water park, they loved it.  Alex seemed to love kicking his little legs in the water and the 85degree sauna that they kept the place.  He also got to experience his first Airshow which he was awesome for the whole time.  I'm telling you this kid is a dream when it comes to his ability to go with the flow. (99% of the time at least!)

Alex seems to be a blanket lover, he rubs his face all over them and falls asleep happily when he can have one in his face (just like momma).  He's also a huge Addison lover.  For as much as she smothers the living daylights out of him, he lights right up when shes in the room, or when she talks to him (smothers).  That sibling bond is pretty awesome.

The Latest in Addisisms

At almost four this girl talks allthefuckingtime non-stop, so picking out individually mispronounced/said words is getting harder because she's constantly perfecting them.  But, she spends so much time talking that she puts together some great phrases.  Here are some of the latest in cute things from the mouth of Addison that I happened to remember to record!

"Prentzel "-pretzel


"Kermonica" - hermonica

"I don't have any more hands.  My hands are full because I not an octopus"

After choking on her juice "It went down the wrong tube, it went down my arm tube".

"Injada turtles" -ninja turtles

"One dollar, that's all you got?  But I need money"

"Whoever wins is the oldest!"

"That's boring.  That's the stuff that grown-ups usually do and that's boring" -I don't even know what "stuff" she was referring to


"When Bosco and bandit die I want to get new dogs that look just like them."

"Glubs" -gloves

"Vocation" - vacation

"Can I ride the ferris wheel?" Me: "I don't know we will have to wait and see"  A: "I probably can't cause the ferris wheel is 100 big and I'm only three.", she currently thinks that height is relative to age since she's three years old and measures just over three feet on our height chart.  She's pretty sure that when she turns 4 she's suddenly going to be 4 ft tall!  speaking of growth charts...

One day while measuring herself on the growth chart (its at least a weekly thing) and finding herself to be the same height still, "man it takes a really long time to grow, I hate being three units" -thanks UmiTeam!

"This BBQ sauce is terrible" - good to know miss food connoisseur

"Oh my goodness kid, you have a fever" every day when she touches Alex's head.

"Do some people live on their own?" Me: "yes"
"well I guess they can live on their own if they are very brave"

"Life has changed" - when a toy broke, really?!

"Cheese boogers"-cheese burgers

"All my toys are baby crap. I don't like baby crap, I like big girl crap. I need more big girl crap"

"Strimp" -shrimp

This one will keep you on your toes and push your buttons testing every single boundary that is set for her.  She is headstrong and quite like her parents, never wrong.  Her stubborn, wild side is balanced out by her sweet, emotional and thoughtful personality.  She makes me laugh & want to bash my head into the wall every single day.   It's true what they say about three being worse than two, at least for us it has.  Sure two had it's terrible moments but three, man three has been a battle of wills! I can't believe she's about to turn four!!  How can another entire year have sped by so quickly.