Are you ready for Christmas yet?? I was so ready with gifts like a month ago for my siblings but for some reason it's taken me until this week to wrap them and ship them off. 

I kind of blame my little people. They distract me with their insane amount of energetic and cute personalities. My to do list isn't really that long, but in little people world, it looks like this:

- dishes

- insert little people interruption

- finish dishes

- sweep

- little people grab me to help them build a train track

- read to little people

- lunch (for little people first)

- etc...

You get the picture. 

I really do love spending all my time with them and I probably could just sit and watch them play for hours. 

But...that being said. I do enjoy it when I have a few moments when both boys are happily occupied with each other and I can sneak off to get some needed things done. For example: Christmas gift wrapping. 

I was excited when Levana asked if they could send me their Stella baby video monitors to try out. When we first got them, I must admit, I wasn't sure how I felt about using video baby monitors. We've never felt the need to watch our kids while they were sleeping or playing in another room, so it was kind of different for us to use them. 

 They have been super fun and I have found myself using them to watch my boys play while I get stuff done discreetly upstairs (like wrapping their Christmas gifts). It was actually really nice to know that I could still "see" them (and know they weren't doing anything mischievous) while I was not in the same room. 

We received 2 video monitors, so we put one in the babies room. I was surprised how much fun it is to have one there. My favorite part is sending my boys up their with her and watch them interact with her while she is in her bed. I usually rush up to make sure they are playing safe with her when she wakes up, but because I could watch it all unfold, I felt content to just sit and watch them without her or the boys knowing I was there. 

Some Standards of the Levana Stella Baby Video Monitor:

- 4.3" screen

- Pan/tilt/night vision camera: adjustable by 270 degrees and tilt vertically 90 degrees 

- You can talk to the baby/kids through monitor 

- 36 hour battery on the video; rechargeable battery

- flashing lights indicate volume level of baby/kids

You can watch a quick video I made of our use of them. It really is fun watching my boys play without them knowing and I'm getting things done at the same time.  

I don't plan on this replacing my interaction with my little people, but it has been nice to use for a minute here and there to get more stuff done and know that they are safe and happy. 

And guess what, you can win one too! Levana is giving a two video set of Levana Stella Baby Video Monitor to one lucky reader. Enter below: