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Best, easy baby photo series yet

June 27, 2012

Our friend, Karen, (formerly known as Auntie Karen, now rookie mom Karen) blew us away with these pictures of her son’s first three months in custom onesies that she made in minutes. Baby Laz is wearing a dot for each month of his age (1 dot = 1 month old, get it?) and laying around [...]

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Reader did-do: Did-do list

March 9, 2012

I was delighted by Fitnessista’s summary of her did-do list and all the reader comments on her site that followed that post.    

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Reader tip for too many stuffed animals

July 1, 2011

Inspired by the idea to turn a Pack ‘N Play into a ball pit, Rebeca from averageparent.com took it in a new direction. She takes an armful of her son’s stuffed animals and puts them into a cardboard box, or empty laundry basket, to create a cozy play area. He loves it, and it’s a [...]

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Reader “did-do” round-up (with photos)

February 8, 2011

Do you know what gets me really excited? Seeing evidence that our brainstorms over here are actually inspiring people to take action. Today I’m sharing three pieces of photographic evidence that y’all are reading and doing. 1. Activity #450: Sew a quick newborn hat from a t-shirt Cute cute cute! Heidi has four kids AND [...]

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Reader did-do: DIY ball pit

December 6, 2010

Bec tried filling her Pack n Play with plastic balls as we suggested in a previous post, but it was a bust: her toddler hated it. Weeks later, however, his obsession with climbing into their ottoman inspired her to turn the ottoman into a ball pit, and HUZZAH! Good times! You can find plastic balls [...]

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Activity #87: Photoshop your memories

October 21, 2010

We have previously written about our love and admiration for those who remember to take monthly pictures of their babies and add some style to the pictures. Heather used the same chair every month, as did Jen who kept it up for at least 33 months. Scrapbooker Hey Jen Renee took it to the next [...]

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Reader did-do: Make Father’s Day look better

June 20, 2010

I copied Whitney’s (and thus Martha’s) template exactly, but my pal Crystal got a little more creative with her Father’s Day labels.

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Reader did-do: Make a newborn hat from a t-shirt

June 9, 2010

Julia, a rookie mom from Brussels, Belgium, sent us this photo of her newborn, David, in the hat she made following our easy newborn hat pattern. How cute is that?!

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Reader did-do: Photograph a day in the life

May 18, 2010

A day in the life of your child changes monthly, doesn’t it? In the first month of life, it might be 45% pictures of a sleeping swaddled baby; 45% half-asleep sucking and slurping baby; and 10% screaming and flailing.  By the end of the first year, you’ve got a few meals of solid food, some [...]

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Reader Did-Do: Makin’ Jammies

May 10, 2010

I noticed this cutie pie the other day when I was looking at incoming links. His mama made him these jammies from our Easy Toddler Pants tutorial. Have you done any of our activities recently? Tag your Flickr photos with “rookiemoms” or add them to our rookiemoms group.

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The Month in Review: Running, Fundraising, and Mominatrixing

May 4, 2010

I feel like it’s Friday, but the calendar tells me it’s not. We Rookie Moms have had a big month. And I’m talking about April (let’s just pretend I wrote this post on May 1st.) We had three real-life events with our bloggy friends. 1) Heather and her teammates for The Relay ran 200 miles [...]

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Reader Did-Do: Monthly chair photos

April 8, 2010

A local-to-us rookie mom, Jen, told us “The monthly shot (now on 2nd kid, too) with the same toy in the same chair is still going strong at now 33 months. (No, we haven’t figured out when we’ll stop. Kindergarten? When she rolls her eyes & flips us off every month?)” I asked her to [...]

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