Willow Tree Daycare LLC

Finally got around to doing a craft with the kiddos! Life has been a little crazy!! But theses came out soo cute

Got out to enjoy the nice weather!!!

Ok here are the pictures from our Halloween party today. It’s sooooo hard to take pictures of toddlers lol I did get a few good ones!

Haven’t posted in awhile. Some painting fun this morning!! Going to turn them into baby sharks

Some water play this morning on this hot sunny day!!

**Copied and pasted from a Mom group** **FYI Parents** Hey everyone, the Mama who originally made this post was willing to be tagged for any questions you may have! Alyssa Rackley Update 6/24: Also, at the bottom of the post, you’ll find sunscreen suggestions from Dr. Yvonne Burkart , a board certified toxicologist and Mom.... This past weekend my daughter started having weird episodes kind of zoning out and dropping her head for a split second. Nothing anyone would find abnormal but I’m with my daughter 24/7 so I immediately knew something wasn’t right... I called our doctor first thing this morning and took her in. She referred us to a pediatric neurologist. We went over everything that has changed in our lives recently. Well, we live in Florida and it’s HOT. So we have been spending a significant amount of time around the pool. So of course I put sunscreen on her. Come to find out this particular sunscreen has ingredients in it that are known carcinogens and endocrine disrupters meaning they can alter hormones. They have been know to cause reproductive abnormalities and much more. But what hit me the most is that chemical sunscreen is absorbed into our bloodstreams... in large doses can be neurotoxic. Which could possibly have caused my daughter to have Petit Mal seizures, also called absence seizures. They don’t look like your typical seizure where people convulse. The individual spaces out, is non responses but otherwise appears normal. The chemicals causing these issues listed above are octinoxate and octisalate and they are 2 of the active ingredients in Babyganics sunscreen. Please pay attention to what you are putting on your babies! I thought I was making one of the best choices picking Babyganics but I was sadly mistaken. I in no way am trying to bash Babyganics but I just wanted to share my experience in hopes of preventing this from happening to another baby. These ingredients aren’t just in Babyganics, that’s just the one I happened to be using. They are in sooooooo many sunscreens so just please do your research and do your best to stick to mineral based sunscreens and never use aerosols! I’m not claiming Babyganics caused my daughters issues but in the midst of our research to find the cause we came across the toxicity of these ingredients and wanted to share with other parents. **Sunscreen list edited 06/24** * This list compiled by Dr. Yvonne Burkart, a board-certified toxicologist and mother of two girls. For toxin-free product & lifestyle recommendations please follow The Toxicology Mama community page. Here's my list of recs: Sticks: Tubby Todd Mineral Sunstick (not cream) Thinkbaby Safe Sunscreen Stick SPF 30 Cream: Badger Organic Baby Sunscreen Pure Haven Sunscreen Babo Botanicals Earth Mama Baby Mineral Sunscreen Two Peas Organics Sunscreen Lotion Beauty by Earth Mineral Sunscreen

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts the kiddos help me make for their parents!

Homemade play dough