Eliza sleeps like a big girl and babbles, too. Also, more on package shrinkage.

The last thing in the subject line has nothing to do with Seinfeld. I was confronted with another incidence of package size shrink yesterday. I was checking out the nutrition information on the back of a can of Starkist tuna. I noticed that the serving size was smaller. Yep. Another case of the sneaky package shrink. We're paying the same price and getting half an ounce less. If the store brand is the old size, I'll be sticking with that from now on. I plan to call out every incidence of this I find. I think it's unconscienable. Especially in this economy. For fans of the 80s movie Mr. Mom, perhaps I should switch to Schooner Tuna. The tuna with a heart.

Now, about Eliza. As soon as we bought her a new swaddling blanket, bedtime became a nightmare. We'd swaddle her and she'd cry off and on for two hours. Busting out seemed to be her lone objective. Night before last, I was so frustrated I just unswaddled her and it was INSTANT sleep. She slept all night without waking up to cry once. Last night she gave us a hassle about bedtime for about 45 minutes, and then she fell right to sleep and was still sleeping when we got up this morning. I guess swaddling is a thing of the past. I hate that we spent the money on a new blanket, but I'm relieved that she seems to be learning to sleep on her own. Now I need to tackle her new aversion to afternoon naps.

She's also been babbling a ton lately. I tried twice to catch it on video today, but with little success.

Walmart, Pampers, Price hikes and Package Shrinking

It really irritates me when products shrink their package size and think we're too stupid to notice. We're then expected to dutifully pay the same price. Today at the store we got a double whammy. We paid a dollar more for a box of Pampers Baby Dry and there were four fewer diapers in the box. We used to pay $19.97 for the 100 count box at Walmart. We now pay $20.97 for a similar box that contains 96. It's one thing to raise the price or reduce the package size but both? That's just evil. It's enough to make me consider switching to Huggies. We've been loyal to Pampers because they seemed to help clear up the diapers rash Eliza had when she was born. Now I just don't know. We found a $5 off coupon for Huggies online. We may have to switch.