by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
The toys are accumulating–if not actually reproducing–just as everyone told us they would. And now I think the toys are disproportionately high to the square footage allotted to keep said toys out of eyesight. Part of the issue isn’t the size of our...
by Cool Mom Team | Party Ideas
As anyone who’s ever thrown a party knows, you need about six times as many cups as guests. Mainly because half of them get wasted when the guests get…well, wasted…and forget which half-full cup was theirs after they put it down. Or worse, instead of...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
I’m always looking for books for my daughter featuring strong female protagonists. They don’t have to be fist-in-the-air feminist characters, but they don’t have to be princesses dreaming of marrying princes, either. So I’m really enjoying...
by Cool Mom Team | Living
My daughter has been introduced to the scientific concept of metamorphosis by, of all things, an episode of The Wonder Pets. She now understands, in her 2 year-old way, that a caterpillar turns into a "buh-fwy." Also that butterflies sing and dance....
by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness
If you’ve got a kid who’s into the binkies, and therefore drops the binkies, and therefore makes you bend down to pick up the binkies 674 times a day–can you tell I know of which I speak?–check out the paci clips from Bink Link. The wooden...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I can barely keep my head above water with two kids of different ages so the notion of triplets (triplets!!!) sends me into shock. And I’m not just talking about all those diapers or managing their feeding schedules. I’m thinking about the important...