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Book Review - Maybe One

June 3, 2009

Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explain­ing about not hav­ing sib­lings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Dis­ney­land might have been more fun with a sib­ling but if I’d had a sib­ling my par­ents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Dis­ney­land. It requires lis­ten­ing to peo­ple talk […]

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HABA Toy Food

February 12, 2009

I’ve always loved toy shop­ping, even before I had a child. Choos­ing gifts for nieces and nephews and think­ing about what I would have loved (or what I DID love) at their ages gave me a thrill. And I know wasn’t the only adult wish­ing I could spend an after­noon play­ing with that Bar­bie Corvette […]

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Booster Seat Giveaway Winner

January 20, 2009

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Mary, com­menter #4 in the Mutsy Grow-Up! give­away. She was our big win­ner, and the cool, mod­ern booster seat is on its way to her and her grow­ing daugh­ter. Thanks to every­one who linked and commented.

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Mutsy Grow-Up! Review and Giveaway

January 8, 2009

Peo­ple always told me I wouldn’t believe how quickly my child would grow, but things are get­ting ridicu­lous around here. My almost-two-year old has sud­denly decided he’s a forty-five-year-old busi­ness­man. While his mis­con­cep­tion can be enter­tain­ing, espe­cially when he demands the car keys and shouts “Bye Mama!” while head­ing for the door with his dad’s […]

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Mutsy EasyGrow Review and Discount

January 6, 2009

Some­where between the ages of twenty months and two years, my son decided that shov­ing smushed-up green peas and sticky banana goo into the vinyl crevices of our high chair was his favorite form of per­sonal expres­sion. We used the Chicco Polly, which served us well for more than a year, but as soon as […]

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Save Handmade

December 15, 2008

We love hand­made kids’ stuff, like one-of-a-kind cloth­ing from Etsy and hand­crafted wood toys made in small batches by arti­sans. But the recently-passed Amer­i­can Con­sumer Prod­ucts Safety Act could put many of our favorite U.S. hand­crafters out of busi­ness. We’re all about safety, but this par­tic­u­lar piece of leg­is­la­tion seems to hurt the man­u­fac­tur­ers we […]

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Mr. Bobbles Travel Crib Sheets

November 24, 2008

We are devoted users of our travel crib. My son slept in it from his first night at home, in the bassinet insert at the foot of our bed. (Well, osten­si­bly he slept, but I remem­ber noth­ing about that because if he was asleep, so was I.) We hauled it from coun­try to coun­try, on […]

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Pedipeds contest winner

November 3, 2008

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Emily at Princess Gra­nola, who won our shoe give­away. Emily, please send us a pic­ture of Zola in her new shoes when they arrive! Thanks to all who entered. Stay tuned for more give­aways in the upcom­ing months.

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Pedipeds Shoes - Review and Giveaway!

October 28, 2008

Until he was get­ting around on his feet rather than his knees, my son only wore shoes on spe­cial occa­sions. In fact, he’s the only bare­foot raga­muf­fin in our big fam­ily photo from last Christ­mas. Appar­ently his cousins have more refined sar­to­r­ial tastes. But once he started cruis­ing, I saw why my friends sang the […]

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My Favorite Bibs

September 16, 2008

My sister-in-law turned me on to DEX Dura-Bibs.  The pocket at the bot­tom, cre­ated by putting together plas­tic snaps, is wide enough to catch almost any drib­ble or spill.  The bibs are soft but thick enough to stand up to lots of wip­ing and wash­ing, and the pocket eas­ily unsnaps so the whole thing lies […]

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