Watermelon!

When I was pregnant I craved watermelon so much!  I could eat an entire watermelon by myself in a matter of hours.  Since I always wanted watermelon and we never knew how to correctly choose a watermelon we made up our own method to choosing a good one.  So this sounds crazy and probably looks even crazier but we would find a watermelon that looked pretty symmetrical and then we'd find a good long stretch in the aisle and roll it.  Yes we put it on the ground and rolled it around to see if it would roll straight.  It actually worked too!  We got so many better watermelons out of this method then the normal taping on it for the hollow sound, psh that never worked.
So this is my advice in choosing a watermelon, have a little fun and play with your fruit in the store.

Schedules

So many parents are so set on having their baby on a schedule by 2 months, but I feel like the baby will find their own schedule.  The only thing we ever scheduled was that our baby would get a bath every night.  Yes we give our child a bath every night because he is so "chunky" that we need to make sure we get all the crud out of his rolls.  He has set his own schedule which is awesome, I like that we are following what his body does naturally, that way we aren't constantly fighting him for naps or bed time.  He does get everything within his day as a baby on a schedule it just means we're more flexible and aren't restricted to home to keep his schedule.  Don't get me wrong I do like to be at home just because we have everything we will need right at our finger tips and with a baby you can never ever perfectly plan for every situation no matter how hard you try, we are always wishing we had something when we aren't home.
I would go crazy if I followed a schedule that I planned, I tried it for 2-3 weeks and was just about having a nervous breakdown.  Now I realize that not everyone has the opportunity to stay home with their children and so there needs to be some type of routine to make the day flow easier but honestly from my 7 months of experience I feel like it's better to be flexible and adjust to what the baby wants instead of wanting the baby to adjust to what we want.
I know we are anything from perfect and we could probably fix certain areas of our child rearing but we are doing the best we can, I mean we've never done this before so we're just doing what we think is best.  Honestly that's exactly what everyone should do, just do what you think is best and try to ignore other people's opinions on how to raise your children, including your parents sometimes (mother doesn't always know best).  The key to good parenting in my opinion is to enjoy your children every day.