It’s Good To Be the King
With Texas Hold-Em having taken over the world–let alone our living room one night a month–it was only a matter of time before it made its way into nurseries too. Baby Luck is a new line of tees and onesies that we found at CMP fave shop, Flying Peas that...
Congratulations! It’s a Pig!
I always have trouble with those baby gifts you need to get when the parents want the sex to be a surprise. Don’t they know what a burden their surprise is on their generous friends? Don’t they know it’s all about me? The Chinese Zodiac is always a...
Style-Conscientious
Onlytwo minutes of searching the web forbabyshoes for my newly crawling little man of the house and I’m drowning in a sea of leather booties. Love leather booties, but isn’t there something different out there? Enter my saviors, Veja baby shoes, which we...
A Good Reason Not To Take A Holiday Off
So you’re enjoying your Labor Day weekend, perhaps planning a little backyard barbecue or a day at the local pool…and now here comes Cool Mom Picks to burst your bubble. Maybe if you just worked a teeeeeny bit more or stopped taking those damn weekends off...
So Soho
I’ve come to find that a lot of smaller designers like the ones we cover use many of of the same fabrics in their bibs and blankets. Evidently there’s been a run on "black cow hide" at some fabric wholesaler somewhere. So when we find items in...
The Elephant in the Room
Please tell me that my child isn’t the only toddler in the world who sleeps with like 800 stuffed creatures in her crib. What can I say, the girl loves animals. What we don’t need is another stuffed animal. But I could justify a purchase if, say, it...
Monkey See, Monkey Doze
I’ve got quite a few friends who are expecting October or November babies and heck, that’s not really too far off. I need to get my gift-giving head out of summer romper land and start considering more appropriate suggestions. We found this absurdly cute...
Hit Me With Music
As a musician with way too many closets full of instruments, I’ve got a soft spot for kids threads that show off our love of all things melodic. Behold the sweet instruments romper courtesy CMP super-fave designer, Sir Hayes, in a collaboration with...
Gives New Meaning to Throwing a Blanket Over Your Shoulder
I’m of the mind that you can never be without a blanket when you’ve got kids. I’d sooner leave the house without a spare diaper than without a spare blanket. I’m not exaggerating. So here’s an idea: If you can’t fit the big, cushy...
Once Upon a Mattress
While I spent way too much time searching for the perfect baby bedding, when it came to the cribmattress, I pretty much just closed my eyes and pointed. Probably not the best technique considering your baby (and babies to come) will be sleeping on well after those...
As Organic As Every Single Food You Put In Their Bodies (Of Course)
There seems to be two kinds of bibs out there – the cute ones you put on the kids for company but that leaves most of their clothes exposed, and the full body armor you haul out for spaghetti night. We’ve finally found something perfectly in between....
