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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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Green Toys

February 21, 2009

Green Toys is a San Fran­cisco com­pany that pro­duces Made in the USA (Cal­i­for­nia to be exact) toys. The com­pany uses recy­cled plas­tic from milk jugs for their prod­ucts. Green Toys’ web­site also states: Our prod­ucts pass a plethora of tests, includ­ing: Con­sumer Safety Improve­ment Act (CPSIA) Con­sumer Prod­ucts Safety Stan­dard Spec­i­fi­ca­tion, ASTM F963 Cal­i­for­nia Prop. […]

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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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Product Review - Epi-no Childbirth Trainer

January 28, 2009

I first head about the Epi-no (pro­duced by Stard­berg Med­ical) dur­ing one of my birthing classes.  The mid­wife showed it to the group, and most of the women in the class dis­missed as an unnec­es­sary expense.  I, on the other hand, was fas­ci­nated! The ‘child­birth trainer’ is basi­cally a vagi­nal dila­tor.  An inflat­able bal­loon is […]

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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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New Mom Product Review

December 19, 2008

I thought I would share a few of the prod­ucts that I have found very help­ful in the first three months of moth­er­hood. There are three basic cat­e­gories — Hoppediz, dia­pers and boobs. I’m sure many more will pop up. What have been the most use­ful prod­ucts for all you new moms and dads out there? […]

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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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Not So Good Stuff: Bino Wobbly Stacker

August 12, 2008

I really, really wanted to be able to write a great review for this Czech-produced wooden Wob­bly Stack­ing Pyra­mid by Bino World of Toys, but that’s not going to be pos­si­ble. We bought this from a local fur­ni­ture store and it was the first stacker I’d seen that I really liked. Unfor­tu­nately, after get­ting it […]

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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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