More coolness from recent weeks…
Jubi: Holy Sheet
Try walking into your local big box store and asking for some solid colored crib sheets. The sales clerk will look at you like you just asked her for some nice razor blades wrapped in barbed wire for your baby to play with. What, no clowns? No farm animals? No...
Preppy, By Way of Bed-Stuy
The argyle for babies just keeps coming our way in new and fun ways. Like this sunny yellow romper from CMP fave label, Sir Hayes. The color is perfectly calibrated to spring you out of your Winter baby wardrobe blahs, and the argyle print has just enough irony,...
Rock On, Little Girls
I've got a 2.5 year-old girl who can identify Bob Dylan by sight, jumps up and down when she hears They Might Be Giants on the radio, and tells everyone she knows that she wants to be a drummer. Needless to say I find it wee bit annoying when kids boutiques have all...
Hooked On My Baby Not Having Tantrums At Dinner Time
My niece has been telling her parents what she wants using sign language since she was about seven months old. She also happens to be one of the calmest, most good-natured babies you'd ever hope to meet, and doesn't scream or cry with frustration when she can't get...
The Much Overlooked Turnip Gets Its Literary Due At Last
The Gigantic Turnip, the classic Russian folktale retold by Alexsei Tolstoy with Niamn Sharkey's amazing illustrations, had me at its cover. I want to paint my house with the color palette, and I think I'd like to frame a picture of the old man's cow. The story line...
Baby Slings With a Backstory
I'm all for babywearing, and not just because it keeps my baby secure and happy. Frankly, I'm more selfish than that, and slinging my baby frees up my hands so that I can do other things.Oh okay, the sling hides my flabby postpartum stomach. But tot-to-go...
Deglingos: French for Toss the Teddy Bear
I often find myself gravitating towards European stuffed animals. There's something quirky and inventive about many of them relative to our own teddies with their ubiquitous neck ribbons. Plus there's that matter of the stringent EU safety standards that inspires an...
Cozy Cuts, Now Coming To a Bathtub Near You
One of the happy places for NYC moms is the chain of Cozy's Cuts for Kids, the kind of salon that feels more Peewee's Playhouse than barber shop. But what's especially appealing to parents - besides the fact that your kid doesn't mind sitting in the car-shaped chair...
Happy Birthday, You Little Rat
We're big fans of Chinese zodiac-themed items for unique baby gifts. Although let's face it, this lunar year being the year of the rat doesn't inherently provide as many cute options as say, the year of the monkey or the year of the pig. One gift that we're loving, is...
Shady Deal
It's finally officially spring, and I'm ready to go outside and play. Of course, I'll probably have to take the kids with me. Not to mention the stroller, diaper bag, sunscreen, picnic blanket, a few books, a bunch of snacks, my Sigg bottle, and a stuffed animal or...
Who Stole The Cheese Factor From the Cookie Jar?
If you've got kids, you've got cookies. Unless you're one of those moms. Oh man, you're not one of those moms, right? Phew. With warmer weather approaching, it's time to find storage solutions that keep those Double Stuffs and graham crackers fresh. (Plan B being just...
All It Takes is One Warm Snap to Send Us All Sandal Shopping
I'm willing to dive into my sandal stash the second the mercury creeps above 50. But since this is my son's first Spring as a walker, I've got no such stash for him to speak of. So for the random warm early spring day in preparation for hot summer...
Boys Need Cool Cards Too
You'd think that with all the girlie cards and personalized notes out there that boys would just let their sisters write all their thank-yous for them. Yeah, well not in my house.Okay, so my son is only 12 months, but for those of you with big boys, check out the cool...
Childrens Art Meets Night Light
I'm the first to espouse the powers of the night light in helping make bedtime (and those nighttime wakings) easier. But then there's the ones you have to remember to turn off so they don't burn out. Oh, and the ones that are more like a spotlight than a soft dim...
Clean Up The House, Win 900 Bucks. Sounds Good to Us.
My place is admittedly a mess these days - toys everywhere, clothes hanging from doorknobs, feral animals roaming the halls. So I am probably not the odds-on favorite to win the new Now You See It, Now You Don't storage solution contest put together by the wonderful...
Cover Me In Luxury
Maybe it's two years of looking at baby blankets in prints with names like "lime disco dot" but some days I'd kill to track down one simple, tasteful classic baby blanket. And it has to be soft. And pretty. And made from certified organic cotton specially...
Origami Mommy
I'm all for broadening my daughter's exposure to new cultures (Dora not included), and the art of Origami seemed to be a good way to merge craft time with cultural studies. Unfortunately I was doing all the folding, and the animals ended up looking like she...
Pimp My Bugaboo
At the risk of being flamed, I hereby announce that I have a Bugaboo. And I freaking love it. Living in NYC there's no better stroller for tackling cobblestones, bumping down subway steps and generally looking swanky. It gets way more use than our car, natch - but...
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
I love books for my kids that are interactive. And I don't mean pressing a button to activate some evil voice chip which shouts commands like FIND THE LETTER T! More like Who's Hiding, a favorite new staple of our children's bookshelf.Each page is filled with rows of...
Dressed to the Nines With Nary a Dorky Bow Tie to Be Found
I love clothes. Have I mentioned this before? If not, you should know, I'm a lover of the clothes. However, when it comes to clothing my favorite little punk, 99% of the time the clothing is just not fun or comfortable, and most of the options are as dorky as they are...
You ask, we answer: The CMP FAQ
First, we just wanted to thank so many of you for helping us out by answering our Federated Media survey last month. But even more, we wanted to thank you for all the amazing words of support (seriously! We cried!) and excellent comments and suggestions you left in...