Jalopy, Part 2

Dan, half jokingly, calls our computer the jalopy because ever since Stella picked off the "o" key, it's just never been the same. It's only a matter of days until the entire thing crashes so we've already picked out a new laptop to order for immediate delivery after I land in CA. He's created a verb: jalopify. Stella is in the process of jalopifying his blackberry and cell phone regardless of how aggressive we are in trying to keep them away from her. I think he's given up, at least on the blackberry.

Anyway, there's quite a scare about bisphenol -A plastics going around in the baby world. How serious you take it is just up to you as some doctors and experts that think the thing is blown out of proportion. It depends on what you read. Stella has been more or less BPA-free since birth. She did use a few Dr Brown's bottles when she first started bottles until I read shortly after that they were "bad,'" even though it seems 80% of the people I know still use them or some other BPA-containing bottle. So, we bought the BPA free Born Free bottles which are $10 a bottle. That's a lot. Plus, the bottles as they are just plain suck so you have to use the Dr Brown's inserts which luckily are the only part of the bottle that are BPA-free. So that's about $15 per bottle and it's not like you can have just one or two. Then, she moved to sippy cups and we bought the BPA-free ones. They leak, but we used them anyway. Then, she moved to a straw cup. We used a Nuby, which was unfortunate since the almost exact model in the sippy cup form was BPA-free. I assumed the straw cup would be BPA free, too. Well, it is, except for the flip top that covers the straw. The baby websites say this is ok since the flip top never really touches the liquid. Stella loves this Nuby straw cup and it's by far the easiest for her to use. And, it does NOT leak under any circumstances. Not even one drop. I thought "well better be safe than sorry..." so bought some other crappy BPA-free straw cups that are "no-spill." We have tried 6 different straw cups and the Nuby is by far the best. She cries out of frustration sometimes because her other cups are terrible in comparison.

The "no-spill" BPA-free cup gushed all over my diaper bag and jalopified our digital camera. It's completely dead. So, no photos until we sort it. Bitter...and costly.