le•top Tip: Another Favorite Stain Fighter

We love to eat berries in the summer, and inevitably, berry juice drips its way to the shirts and shorts of the wearer! Sometimes certain stain sticks don’t work, but this usually does:

Mix a few drops each of vinegar, dish soap and water, and apply to the stain on the machine washable garment. Let it sit for a while and rinse. For tough stains, it may take another application, then machine wash as usual.  I used to use it on dark juice stains too – but I’ve noticed most juice in juice boxes now are colorless!

(I don’t know which is more troubling… Juice that is over-colored, or juice that has none at all!)

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Shopping at Granny-Made

The editor: seriously in love with this boy!

On a recent trip to NYC with Sweetie, we stopped by charming Granny-Made, so we could both make some purchases for the little kiddies we were visiting. Two of my best friends who live in Manhattan have an adorable, just-turned 24-month old boy with the most mesmerizing dark brown eyes. I wanted to get something for him and found this fun and warm outfit from the le•top Construction Site collection. Henry wasn’t feeling well that day (it seemed as if almost every child in NYC was sick during our visit!), so I didn’t get to see him dressed in the complete outfit, but he loved the orange stripes of this shirt (that day, I learned his favorite color was orange), as well as the trucks on the overall and jacket (“Tuck! Tuck!” I also learned Henry loves trucks!). I’m waiting to get the photos, Mom (hint…hint), but Justice models it well, doesn’t he? Granny-Made is happy to take phone orders and ships almost anywhere, and they also have convenient gift certificates you can buy online. As always, you can use our store locator to find a le•top store near you.

Caution...Boys at Play!! Click image to see all items in the Construction Site collection.

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Santiago and the Terrible Twos

Lovable, adorable (squishable!) Santiago in his not-so-terrible twos...

My friend Angela just had baby number two, a lovely little girl named…Sophia! She is just an angel, happy and giggly. Her big brother, Santiago loves her and loves to give her lots of kisses! Needless to say, with two kids now, Ang has her hands full. To add to the manic quality of her life, Santiago is…Two! Yes! The terrible twos! But you know, other than the overly abundant use of the word “no” (as in the every-other-word-is-no variety!), he really is not so “terrible.” He’s quite terribly loving actually! This past Christmas, we all met up at Ang’s mom’s house, and we adults (well, all the guys, my husband and Ang’s husband included!) had some mischievous fun engaging in a bit of trickery decorating Ang’s mom’s house with colored lights. Ang’s mom DETESTS colored lights, so we did it stealthily…

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