More coolness from recent weeks…
Valentine’s Chocolate Gets a Run for Its Money
Let's face it, the last thing I want to be doing February 14 is baking cookies. Especially now that we've discovered the adorable Sweet Lil' Gems Valentine cookies, available exclusively at Tiny McSmall. Bakers Lisa and Margie make each tin of eleven treats to order...
Fine Drooler-y
Now that I understand that every nanosecond of a child's life (especially that first child - sorry siblings) will be photographed and documented, I can make a helluva good case for getting chic with the drool bibs at my friend's baby showers. Plastic ones are nice and...
I Want to Be the Girl With the Most Cake
The sigOth and I had this great idea to save all of our daughter's birthday hats, ostensibly to watch the progression from Elmo to Diego to Toodee, if one day Yo Gabba Gabba licenses their characters to party supplies. The only problem with our plan: We didn't count...
Minimizing to the max
After a day of lugging around The Diaper Bag That Can Hold Everything and Often Does, I am more than excited to head out for a rare night on the town with nothing on my shoulders but a spritz of No.5. Oddly, motherhood has turned me into a clutch girl. Hooray for the...
What Are Other Children’s Albums Missing? Oh Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson
It's rare that my toddler will instantly take to music that she hasn't already seen on TV, but that's just what happened when I pressed play on A World of Happiness. No Wheels on the Bus here, this is an album entirely filled with original messages of kindness,...
Going Nocturnal
Now that I know there are more mobile options than some ugly plush "registry essential" that plays a robotic rendition of Twinkle Twinkle, I'm determined to spread the word to all the new moms out there. Take this artful Wise Ol' Owl mobile by IGE,...
Parachute Pants Not Included
It's the plight of pregnant women everywhere, and I'm not talking about constipation. Damn that belly grabbing! No matter how hard I tried, I could never get people to stop pawing at me. So maybe people will heed the words of everyone's favorite...
Shiny Happy People Dreaming Jam Band
Imagine if the B-52's, Abba, REM and Devo moved into a house with four keyboards and a giant dress-up closet. And then imagine that they sang Beatles and Queen and Carpenters songs and sometimes rapped. Dream Jam Band is like that. One of them is related to Abraham...
Give Me Liberty!
I'm always on the look out for something to do with my favorite pictures, other than frame them. Custom bags, jewelry - you name it, I've got it. But puzzles? Not until now.While it's easy to be mesmerized by Liberty's unique vintage children's puzzles with images...
Lady in Waiting
We've seen a whole lot of handmade felt hair clips, but none that made us grin quite like The Little Lady Clip at Lily-Pie designs. Let's just say Kristen and I had a grand old time coming up with other names for it - although granted The Bathroom Door Clip really...
Gotta Get a Dwell
A reader recently emailed asking about cool toiletry cases for kids. My answer was that most of them are pretty lame, and you're better off sticking with something basic from your local CVS. (Not that he knows it though - my email bounced back twice. Grrr...)But that...
Mr. Destructo
If there's one huge difference between my son and my daughter, other than the obvious, of course, it's that my son has a penchant for total destruction unlike anything I've ever seen. And so what's more perfect than this Robot Destroyer tee from mom-owned...
Keeping Clips From Getting Clipped
No one tells you when you start buying cute hair clips for your daughter--probably long before she'll even keep them in her hair for more than two seconds--that you might want to consider some way to put them away properly each night. As in, not a pile on the changing...
Little Details Making a Big Difference
My husband decided to invite a few more people than I had intended (um, that would be none) to my son's first birthday celebration. Instead of freaking out and slapping together some terrible goody bag, the personalized favor tags from Cocoblu Studio turned...
Little Love Monkeys
I know a few moms who think that Valentine's day is strictly for adult-sized people. But knowing how much my toddler adores holidays, there's no way I could leave her out entirely while her dad and I pop the Moet and scarf down truffles. If you've got a pint-size...
The Eco Nursery is Here and It’s Not Crunchy At All
When I hear that baby furniture is eco-conscious, I admit the first image that comes to mind is some unfinished knotty pine something or other that would look more at home in a hunting lodge than a modern nursery. But then I got an early look at the new offerings from...
The Friendly Skies Just Got Friendlier
I've just returned from our first ever overseas trip with two children in tow. Thankfully (seriously, thank you powers-that-be) they were both exemplary travelers. While I'd like to think that my stellar parenting skills are entirely responsible, I have to throw a hat...
One Sling Fits All
With all the love that I have professed for the pouch sling, it definitely has one downside: It's made to fit you and only you, which isn't so great when it's your spouse's turn to take the sleepy baby off your hands. So I was definitely intrigued by the Baby...
The One Time the Babies Kiss the Candidate
Given the wide range of Presidential candidates still in the running this year, why not add one more? I love the Me for President layered tee from Wrybaby's limited edition political collection. Depending on your perspective, the tee or bib are either a vote of...
Sing Your Math
One of my few claims to fame is that I can sing the twelve cranial nerves to the tune of My Favorite Things. Hey, it got me an A in anatomy and physiology. Chances are, you've used music to try to remember things too. Um. Like the alphabet? So you can't knock teacher...
Armored & Dangerous
I cannot tell you how glad I am to be out of the spitty drooly baby stage. Or maybe I should say my shirts are glad. Even with the loads of burp cloths I collected over almost four years of parenting, I still ended up with cruddy spit-up on my...