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Monsters, Monsters, Everywhere!

March 8, 2009

While surf­ing the net for kid’s toys, I keep com­ing across mon­sters!  They are seri­ously cute, although I’m not sure who loves them more, the par­ents or the kids.  Here are some of my favorite mon­sters I’ve come across: Mr Mous­ta­chio costs €40 and is avail­able at La Mai­son de Lola Terry and Tina, Bunny Blue […]

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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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Rice's Cups Full of Hope

January 16, 2009

While look­ing for cute, high-quality, melamine dishes to use as tod­dler table­ware, I ran across a com­pany in Den­mark not only mak­ing fab­u­lous cups, plates, bowls and more, but that also has a con­science, Rice. Their prod­ucts are designed in Den­mark, then man­u­fac­tured in third world coun­tries by employ­ees who are treated fairly and are […]

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What strollers are best for cobblestone streets?

November 20, 2008

As a mom liv­ing in Ger­many, I have a lot of expe­ri­ence with rough, cob­ble­stone streets. I know sev­eral expect­ing moms who have asked what to look for in a stroller that you’ll be using on bumpy streets, and here’s some points: Pneu­matic tires — at least two of the tires should have rub­ber­ized tires […]

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Odenwaelder Babynest

November 16, 2008

Last year while in DC over the Christ­mas hol­i­days, we received a lot of com­ments on how warm and snug­gly Oliver looked in his stroller bag.  The stroller bag is a pretty com­mon thing in Ger­many and the rest of Europe, so I thought I’d intro­duce you to the com­pany that pro­duces the baby stroller […]

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Holztiger wooden toys

October 26, 2008

Holztiger is a Ger­man toy com­pany that makes brightly col­ored, hand-carved, hand-painted ani­mal fig­urines.  There are hun­dreds of ani­mals to choose from, many avail­able in var­ied poses, so your child can have a herd of cows, a clow­der of cats, or a gag­gle of geese.  There are over a dozen trees, a barn­yard, and even […]

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Glueckskaefer wooden puzzles

October 20, 2008

Some­thing else I ran across in Nikolai-Eck dur­ing my visit to Leipzig, were Glück­skäfer nest­ing toys.  These are beau­ti­ful, Ger­man pro­duced, heir­loom qual­ity, wooden nest­ing puz­zles.  Glück­skäfer has been in busi­ness for over 60 years and believes in pro­duc­ing qual­ity over quan­tity.  For Ger­man speak­ers, they’re avail­able from the Glück­skäfer web­site in Ger­many.  They’re also […]

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Pregnant in Germany

October 17, 2008

Now that I am finally an “Inter­na­tional Mama,” and not just a soon-to-be-mama, I finally feel qual­i­fied to add my 2 cents to the blog! Our girl arrived almost five weeks ago and is already won­der­ing where her sausage and beer are (or at least, that’s how I inter­pret her cry­ing). Hav­ing never been pregnant […]

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Janoschik Toys

October 14, 2008

Last week, I found the most amaz­ing toys in a reli­gious run shop, Nikolai-Eck, at Niko­laikirch­hof in Leipzig (if you’re in the area, def­i­nitely pay it a visit). I’ll post about them over the next few days. First up is Janoschik Toys (Ger­man site, Eng­lish site). These are seri­ously cute wooden toys in the shapes […]

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How "socialism" helps me give my child presence

October 12, 2008

In addi­tion to being Breast Can­cer Aware­ness Month, it’s also Attach­ment Par­ent­ing month. The theme of this year’s Attach­ment Par­ent­ing month is “Giv­ing our Chil­dren Pres­ence.” API Speaks, the blog of Attach­ment Par­ent­ing Inter­na­tional, is hold­ing a blog car­ni­val of pres­ence to bring aware­ness to how we can give our chil­dren our pres­ence in the […]

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