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Link love for April

April 6, 2012

I answered the door yesterday while wearing an American Girl doll in a child-sized Ergo carrier. I had forgotten I had put it on. That is my segue to this disorganized and varied list of stuff worth reading. Jason Good is a dad/writer who is hilarious. Get sucked into his site. If you have a [...]

Jump around and win (giveaway!)

April 5, 2012

Sawyer has happy legs whenever he sees me. If he’s laying down or sitting, he kicks. If he’s in an upright position, he jumps. Happiness makes him bounce and bouncing makes him happy. Win win. (It also helps that putting him in his Exersaucer means he’s in a somewhat protected position from his brothers so [...]

Dunstan baby language put to the test!

April 4, 2012

I had heard about the Dunstan Baby Language as “the woman who speaks baby talk on Oprah” several years ago. It sounded like a brilliant idea, but without my own crying baby, there wasn’t much opportunity — or drive — to test it. I flirted with the idea of buying the DVDs a few times [...]

Makin’ it: Easy photo placemats

April 3, 2012

This is a quickie craft project to turn a stack of photos, like the ones my mom is always sending me, into personalized placemats for sloppy eaters. We have several of these and they make me very happy. My cousins originally created unique placemats that were photo collages of my life and Alec’s life up [...]

Activity #158: Get on the dance floor at Baby Loves Disco

April 2, 2012

Last week, Heather and I had the pleasure of teaming up with Baby Loves Disco, the providers of kid-friendly dance parties around the country. They had a 10-day mini-tour in the Bay Area and we hit two of the parties in partnership with our hyperlocal blog, 510families.com for East Bay parents. When our first babes [...]

Flashback Friday: giggle link love for March

March 30, 2012

My giggle product picks are all about hitting the road in your stroller. Did you know that there are clever accessories to make your walks a little smoother? Especially useful for those times when you end up trying to carry the baby with one arm, push the stroller with the other, and balance groceries with [...]

Silverlicious games and doll (giveaway!)

March 29, 2012

We’ve had quite a few giveaway prizes that many of you have outgrown: sleepsacks, a travel bassinet, a sling, etc. Today, we’re excited, on behalf of those of you with BIG KIDS, to have this post sponsored by Pinkalicious. This popular children’s book about a little girl who loves pink so much that she turns [...]

New mom and baby movie program

March 28, 2012

Taking oneself and a baby to a baby-friendly movie theater is one of our favorite milestones of maternity leave. It requires you to leave the house, challenges you to practice feeding and changing in a public location, but also provides the support of a dark room and fellow new moms (aka crying babies) to remind [...]

Our new book: Stuff Every Mom Should Know

March 27, 2012

We’re so excited to tell you that our new book is officially out today! Stuff Every Mom Should Know is part of a series from Quirk Books that includes Stuff Every Man, Woman, Husband, and NOW Mom and Dad Should Know. We wrote this book together based on the stuff we’ve learned since becoming moms, [...]

Makin’ it: Easiest ever skirt tutorial

March 26, 2012

Making a skirt for a little girl is tempting because it requires very little fabric, and this guest post from my friend Cori describes how to do it in very few steps. But what I really want to do is make one for myself. Tonight, dear sewing machine, I pledge to spend a little bit [...]

Spring cleaning is not in my vocabulary

March 23, 2012

When I am the queen of the world, there will be a robot that carries me to my bed and cleans my face and teeth with a magic wand. Oh, how I envy my husband’s habit of hanging his clothes up at the end of the day. He tells me that his habits come from [...]

Organic bed sheets for mama (giveaway!)

March 22, 2012

Zzzzz. I wish I could promise that new sheets would make any sleep woes you have — insomnia, kicking fetus, exploding boobs, kicking toddler sleeping next to you, or all of the above — disappear. Instead, I can just offer you a chance to win a set of Queen size sheets that will possibly make [...]

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