From the category archives:

Feeding

Raising an Adventurous Eater

September 19, 2009

My 2 year old son Oliver eats just about every­thing.  The other day, Janda and I had lunch at Aran here in Regens­burg, and Oliver had fresh Ger­man whole grain bread spread half with tomato-garlic spread and the other half with a tuna-artichoke mix.  He’s eaten caviar, blood sausage, raw onion, boiled beef with horseradish, […]

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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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Review: Stokke Tripp Trapp

September 28, 2008

After much research on my part, my hus­band and I set­tled on get­ting a Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair for Oliver.  It’s expen­sive, at 140 Euro for just the base chair, but we expect to get 1–2 decades of use out of it, mak­ing it more afford­able than a high chair that would only be […]

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The Snack Trap

September 18, 2008

When my son started eat­ing fin­ger foods on the go, I looked for some­thing to make my life eas­ier. The last thing I wanted was to be pick­ing blue­ber­ries out of the stroller seat or from between the seats in the car. On a casual trip to Babies R Us, I dis­cov­ered The Snack Trap.  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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The Bottle of My Dreams

August 21, 2008

When The Boy was around nine months old, I went back to work full-time out­side of the home. Up until then, he had had very few bot­tles. My hus­band was not itch­ing to give him one, and if The Boy was not starv­ing, he would refuse it any­way. We started try­ing bot­tles when The Boy […]

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Good Stuff: Sack-N-Seat

August 5, 2008

At eigh­teen months, my son is just big enough to sit up to the table in a nor­mal chair, but way too wig­gly to stay there for long. We use his high chair at home, but I’m too busy try­ing to stash his extra stuffed giraffe and some clean under­wear in our lug­gage to imagine […]

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