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The Baby Rabies YouTube Channel Is Re-Launching October 2nd!
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The Baby Rabies YouTube Channel Is Re-Launching October 2nd!

by Jill
written by Jill

And I’m SO excited!

Whether you’re a new mom, expecting, already parenting a litter- I’d be so thrilled to have you hit that subscribe button over on our YouTube channel.

If you’re brand new to Baby Rabies, my name is Jill, I’m a mom of 4- ages 10, 7, 5, and nearly 2, and my family is currently traveling around the country in an RV. We document that part of our life over at HappyLoudLife.com and YouTube.com/HappyLoudLife.

I’ve been blogging for over 11 years about all things pregnancy and parenthood, and I’m so excited to be taking those same topics to YouTube!

Thank you so much for subscribing to the Baby Rabies YouTube channel! Watch for new videos, 2x a week, start October 2nd, 2018.

PS. If you click the bell icon beside the subscribe button, you’ll be notified when we upload our new videos. Come hang out in the comments and let us know what you think and what you want to see on the channel!

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Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry
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Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry

by Jill
written by Jill

Earlier this summer, back in my lat 1st tri when my hormones were surging and my food aversions were on blast, I asked my Facebook page what were some of the craziest things they’ve ever cried over while pregnant, mostly looking for solidarity because I was an emotional nightmare.

At the time, my husband had committed many crimes against pregnant hormones, including coming home with a Frosty that I desperately craved, only for me to discover their machine obviously had malfunctioned because it was completely melted and made of nothing but foam.

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And he had one that was the exact same way and sucked it down, not even thinking that this was going to RUIN ME!  It’s like I haven’t had 3 other babies before this with him.

What followed on my FB page was one of the best comment threads ever. I was crying again, but only because I was laughing so hard.

(I finally got around to turning this into a video, which you can watch in full at the end of the post.)

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Here are just a FEW of my favorites:

“I loved pickle juice while pregnant, and had about 4 jars of varying types that I would drink out of each night… Kosher, Polish, garlic. One night my husband combined them all in 2 jars. I bawled for hours because they were ruined.” – Kristin P.

That must have hurt, Kristin. Truly.

Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry | BabyRabies.com

“I cried about donuts. Specifically, I’d waiting in link with my 3 year old picking out the perfect donuts for us and then realized at the counter that I didn’t have my wallet. We had to leave them there and I went to the car and cried. It was National Donut Day.” – Gena G.

WHO lets a pregnant walk away from her donut order on NATIONAL DONUT DAY and doesn’t offer to pay the, what, $5 for her??

Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry | BabyRabies.com

“I got a pedicure the week before I gave birth and the my fee were SO SWOLLEN that the lady tried putting the toe spacers in but decided I didn’t need them. I ugly cried.” – Amanda V.

Bless those poor sausage toes! Laughing WITH you, Amanda. WITH you.

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“There was a dent in the metal laundry room door. I tried to tap it out with the end of a screwdriver. It didn’t look good so I beat the door senseless with a hammer and made it look like hell. Cried about the mess, and that the door looked even worse.” – Cami L.

The pregnant rage was strong with this one.

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“I cried when my husband and I were planting a tree for our first baby. Not about the sentiment of watching this tree and my baby grow up together, but because my husband cut a worm in half while digging the hole.” – Brittany C.

That’s some real circle of life stuff, girl.

Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry | BabyRabies.com

If you’re in the thick of the pregnancy hormone jungle, just know you are not alone.

Crazy Things That Make Pregnant Women Cry | BabyRabies.com

Right now? YES, these are totally LEGIT things making your cry. THIS IS SERIOUS, and we respect that.

In a few months, though, hopefully, you’ll be able to have a good laugh at it.

So… tell me, what is the craziest thing that’s made YOU cry while pregnant?

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Take Summer Photos From Snapshot To Frame-Worthy
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Take Summer Photos From Snapshot To Frame-Worthy

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Summer is almost here! This is a post I wrote last summer, but I am dusting it off and made a video to go with it because summer is my favorite time of year to take pictures.

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Watch the video below for 5 tips for great summer photos….

Then click through to last year’s post to see what my 6th tip was, especially those of you with access to photo editing programs.

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It’s Fine. We’re Excited. We’re Going To Be Fine.
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It’s Fine. We’re Excited. We’re Going To Be Fine.

by Jill
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“You can’t do that to me!” That was Scott’s reaction upon receiving the text that I was SUPER OMG SURPRISE pregnant with our 4th baby.

And my response back? “You are the one who did this TO ME!”

He was on day 3 or 4 of a 7 day trip, and was in all day meetings. He said he got the text and looked at it in front of a colleague who immediately figured out what it was and Scott turned bright red. OOPS! GUESS WE WERE BOTH SURPRISED AND CAUGHT OFF GUARD.

He called me about 15 minutes later during a break.

Beyond the initial shock, though, he’s been super thrilled.

4th baby hasn’t been completely off the table. We talked about it and I mostly agreed to it, but the plan was for it to be a later bonus baby. At the very least, it was another year away from consideration. I wanted some distance between this circus and the next.

So as for my reaction? I’m still warming up. I’ve done a lot of crying, but, of course, I’m hopeful and grateful, and I have 8 months to adjust. Everything will be fine.

Now the kids? This is the first time any of them have been old enough to really grasp what this means before seeing an actual baby, I think, so we decided to video their reaction. Brace yourselves! It’s…. nothing too exciting.

In case you couldn’t watch that with the sound on, Leyna wants it to be a girl, Kendall wants it to be a boy, and Lowell wants it to be a Peep. At least 2 of them will have each other to commiserate with.

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Why I Love It In One Minute – No, Not that “it”
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Why I Love It In One Minute – No, Not that “it”

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I love telling people about stuff I love. And I do that from time to time here, but since this isn’t a product-review based blog, it’s hard for me to find the right time and context to let you all know about random stuff that I’m obsessed with.

I share a bit on Instagram, of course, and Facebook, but I thought starting a video series would be a super fun way to tell you all about the stuff I just… I really want to tell you about. Not just products, but maybe apps and books and really just anything I think you might need and want in your life.

I want it to be easy for you to watch, and quick, and fun. And I don’t want you to wonder if I’m getting paid to say that I love.

WILI

Why I Love It In One Minute is a series of 60 second (ish) videos that will never be sponsored, and always be captioned (so no need to listen with sound on). Now, sometimes the thing I’m telling you about would have been sent to me at some point (which I will disclose), but the only way it’s making it onto a WILIIOM video is if I decide I really love it enough to justify that. I will include links to purchase items if possible, and sometimes they will be affiliate links.

Here are the two I’ve done so far. I hope you love them!

Mad love for those Mrs. Meyers products! The Lavender is my favorite scent, and the candles burn so long and clean! 

 

Scott loves this Bose Soundlink so much that I feel like I need one for me! Would be perfect for my studio upstairs. Obsessed with the mint colored one.

Is there anything you’d like to know about? What kind of “love this” things should I share? Let me know and I’ll add it to my list!

Oh, and if you want to see these videos as soon as they are posted, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

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The EB Brought Playdoh Surprise Eggs. There’s a Video Because I Want To Be Rich.
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The EB Brought Playdoh Surprise Eggs. There’s a Video Because I Want To Be Rich.

by Jill
written by Jill

So listen, the Easter Bunny knows how addicted my kids are to watching grown people peel Playdoh off of giant plastic eggs on YouTube. I don’t know how he knows this, but then again, I also don’t know how he makes it to all those houses to hide all those eggs in one night.

I’m not one to question the EB, is what I’m saying.

Being the knowing bunny that he is, he brought our 3 kids Playdoh Surprise Eggs in lieu of baskets this year. It’s obvious he’s a badass. I mean, just look at these.

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Now, being the unknowing sort that I am, I had to ask him how he created these, and here’s what little he could tell me:

For those big giant plastic eggs (which he has seen at Target during Easter season, but are also available on Amazon) it takes about 6 full size cans of Playdoh to cover each one. He said he rolled out 3 cans at a time (with a wine bottle, actually, because the wooden rolling pin we had in our drawer was sticking to the Playdoh, and he was really glad I was the sort to have a wine bottle laying around). Then he covered 1/2 the egg, rolled the other 3 out, covered the other half, cut off the excess, and patched and smooshed a bit.

The smaller egg, also on Amazon, only took about 3 cans to cover.

Then he used other colors to make the various decorations and spell out their names. He’s really creative like that.

Also, he kept them from drying out from the time he dropped them off until morning by covering them with a couple garbage bags.

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Now, as for what’s inside, I’m going to list it all out below this short video of the kids ripping into them on Easter morning.

 

Of course there is a video! For one, the kids insisted. Do Playdoh Surprise Eggs even exist if there is not a video of them being torn apart? We think not. Also, looking forward to becoming an overnight millionaire after all the kids find this on YT and watch it 150 times without blinking.

Kendall (7.5):

Leyna (5):

Lowell (2.5):

The big Krause kids have been BEGGING me to “do REAL Playdoh surprise eggs” for months, so I am SUPER happy the EB brought these. They had a wonderful time opening them, and remain mildly interested in the contents 36 hours later. Really all I could hope for. Thanks, EB!

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April 2017 update!

I did a live Facebook video to show you guys how you can make your own Playdoh Surprise Eggs… or you can let the bunny know where to go for inspiration 😉 Watch below and you’ll see exactly how EXCITED Lolo is about opening his egg.

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AITKWK: Episode 2- Cement & Toddlers & Poor Choices
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AITKWK: Episode 2- Cement & Toddlers & Poor Choices

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Our first episode of Adventures In The Kitchen With Kids went so well and was so fun for the kids, that I promised we’d do another. And because I can never keep things under control, I decided to try and make cement eggs with all 3 kids, including the 2.5 year old.

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I pinned this a while back and thought it looked like a pretty easy thing to pull off, yielding results that the kids could have fun with, and some extras that I could decorate with.


Cement + kids- what could possibly go wrong? Actually, the kids were mostly fine, all things considered. As you watch this, keep in mind that Scott’s behind the camera and it’s like he’s a nature photographer. He can only observe and not interfere… not even when wet cement falls on the floor.

The biggest issue was that the eggshells were impossible to chip off and we wound up having to soak them in vinegar for 4 days. It was a long road to a very little and disappointing house.

But the video? Pretty funny. Keep your eye on Lowell. He has a lot of feels in this.

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Adventures In The Kitchen With Kids!
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Adventures In The Kitchen With Kids!

by Jill
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My kids are really into wanting to do videos with me lately. And they are really into cooking.

The combo of the two? Well, I hope you find it as funny as I do. This is non-scripted reality right here, folks.

You’re not going to learn anything you can’t find on the back of a cake box, but you’ll see me twitch while my son pours cake mix and ask him to “stop” about a billion times.

Do be sure you watch all the way to the very end for special bonus video that Kendall finds hilarious.

AITKWK

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This Rope Woven From Hope Is For You, Momma
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This Rope Woven From Hope Is For You, Momma

by Jill
written by Jill

The lowest, rock-bottom point in my postpartum anxiety battle was a quiet afternoon, as I rocked my then 9 month old daughter in her dark room, hot tears streaming down my face. I looked at her, and apologized over and over. I said to myself, “If you don’t get help, you will be the mom on the news.” 

1 hour later, I was in my car, driving to fill my prescription for Zoloft- something I didn’t want to admit until that very moment that I needed to get better.

Last weekend I was part of a revolutionary movement. I sat in a room at the first ever Warrior Mom Conference with over 100 other women, and we talked about our battles with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (postpartum/antepartum depression, anxiety, ocd, psychosis). We shared moments of tears, joy, and victory.

And then? We talked A LOT about helping moms who haven’t been helped, who need it the most, who need that one person to come into their life and let them know that they are not a BAD mom. They are a mom who is dealing with an illness, and that that illness CAN get better.

Katherine Stone, founder of the nonprofit Postpartum Progress that put on the conference, made a powerful analogy in her keynote speech. 1 in 7 moms (at least!) will deal with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, falling over a cliff at the edge of motherhood, into a dark hole. It is so important that some, many of us who make it out of that hole, come back around, and throw ropes down to the women who are still in it.

And so, this project I’m about to share with you, this is just one of my ropes.

I’ve spent the last 3 months working with the Warrior Mom Conference national sponsor Cotton Babies to create this short video with the hopes that as many moms, and people who love and support moms see it. I want them to see this rope that is woven from threads of hope and messages of victory and solidarity.

7 women in 3 cities opened their hearts and homes to me. They sat before my camera, raw and beautifully vulnerable, throwing out their own ropes.

Watch, listen, share. Grab hold of that rope, momma. We are here for you. You are a GOOD mother. You CAN get better.

Thank you to Cotton Babies and to these gloriously strong women for making this video possible.

~Raivon~

~Maggie~

~Laura~

~Rochelle~

~Marjorie~

~Erin~

~Dianthe~

If you or someone you love can identify with the struggles these women talked about in the video, and you need a place to start, head over to PostpartumProgress.org. I found their “Tools” to be incredibly eye opening and helpful.

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How To Drink Like A Grown Up- A Video!
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How To Drink Like A Grown Up- A Video!

by Jill
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This is BIG!

This has nothing to do with babies or kids or potty training or crafts. It’s totally out of the box for me, but I think/hope you’ll love it.

First of all, Scott is making his video debut (and he’s pretty nervous about it, but he did a super job).  Eeep! So excited for you all to, kinda, meet him.

Second of all, this trick we learned at the Napa Valley Distillery is, I mean I hate to say this because it’s obviously bordering on hyperbolic (who, me?), life changing.

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But even if you don’t drink liquor, you should definitely watch and stick around for the end because I make Scott take his hat off. And also, I’m trying to convince him to do more videos with me, though probably not many more about day drinking because our productivity was shot after shooting this.

Maybe some fun DIY/home reno ones, though? Honestly, all of that might be more fun if we did incorporate liquor.

If you missed my pics from Napa and Tahoe, they’re here.

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