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Month 7

Activity #155: Scatter toys

December 12, 2007

Early sitters need practice with balance. For Holden, I sit him down in Dwarf Land (pictured) and scatter rattles, toys, and other objects in a circle around him, the baby-sitter, and see what happens. Watch closely to prevent any embarrassing facial bruises. I either create a “circle of safety” with my arms or pad the [...]

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Activity #162: Give yourself the four week challenge

October 2, 2007

It is flipping hard to get into a new routine. Especially with a little person in your life with their own needs, schedules, and unpredictability. I can recommend the four-week challenge to get yourself on track. Here are a few times I’ve tried it with mixed success: Prenatal yoga with a toddler in tow. Each [...]

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Cook and play

August 24, 2007

Still having trouble getting dinner on the table? Us too! It seems like places like Emeryville’s Dinner Source are popping up all over the country to fill the need for quick, convenient, healthy meals. The idea is that we go there and assemble fresh, tasty meals and leave with dozens of future meals. And they [...]

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Activity #153: Take a hike

July 15, 2007

Try out your big baby in a backpack carrier and hike around. If this is your first time using the backpack carrier, do yourself a favor and make the first hike around the house or the yard in case baby hates his new method of transport. When you’re ready, hit the real world for some [...]

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Activity #280: Save hundreds on diapers

March 15, 2007

Oh yeah! Our friend, Angie, at Baby Cheapskate offers five great tips to save hundreds of dollars on diapers. She estimates that parents will spend over $1500 on diapers before their child is potty trained and hopes these tips will save up to a third of that. Go on, get yourself some cheap diapers. Found [...]

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Activity #200: Watch the car from afar

February 22, 2007

Whether you do it on purpose (driving around town to induce a nap) or by accident (windows down, music blaring, begging baby to stay awake to no avail), sooner or later your baby will fall asleep in the car. Some people can get babies back to sleep after extracting them from the car seat, but [...]

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Activity #446: Create your own comic strip

February 21, 2007

Attention Dilbert fans, did you know that Comeeko.com allows you to upload photos and add speech bubbles to make a comic strip? You can share with friends and family through the web site. (via lifehacker.com)

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Activity #473: Interview your friends

May 8, 2006

Sarah and I don’t know each other well– our husbands were college mates– but she was alone with me during the first five minutes after I left my baby with someone else, and so she has seen me Cry While Fat. Not my best moments. At the time, she was six months pregnant and I [...]

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Activity #258: Spice it up

December 28, 2005

Do you find mashed avocado a little bland? So does your baby. Try to add a sprinkle of cumin. Now it’s really baby guacamole – yum! Holden literally went from ho-hum on avocado to gobbling it up when I did this (and he’s been rather consistent about it since). Some of my mama friends said [...]

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Activity #249: Bust out the Baby Beatles

December 10, 2005

We have a great CD of Beatles music lullabied for babies… it’s calm, instrumental, familiar yada yada yada. We bought it in the early days when we were still trying anything to help Holden sleep (before we settled on white noise). Anyway, it has a surprising second life. On the weekends when we can’t get [...]

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Activity #245: Go “baaa baaa baaa da da da”

December 2, 2005

Huh? Alec is in the other room making all sorts of crazy sounds and Holden is mimicking. In other words, Holden said “ba ba ba” and we turned it into a conversation. This morning, we talked at great length about “balls”, “barbecue”, “bottle” and any other word beginning with “bbbbbb” — I guess the experts [...]

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Blow bubbles with a straw

November 28, 2005

Supposedly, if you have the requisite equipment, blowing bubbles with a straw into a clear cup of water will produce laughter. I guess the sound and sight is very entertaining to some babies. When I tried it — both with the colored loopy straws in a fun glass of water and again in a clear [...]

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