There are a couple of sets of videos that we sit down to watch with Pooky somewhat regularly. One is the previously reviewed Baby Signing Time series. The other is called Your Baby Can Read! As you might guess from the title, it aims to introduce your baby to reading. On their website and in [...]

In general, we believe that the less TV Pooky watches, the better. While it’s often tempting to pawn her off on Elmo when she’s cranky, we’re trying to avoid the trap of using the TV as a pacifier. So far, I think we’re doing an okay job. That being said, one of the most useful [...]

Dr. Steven Parker put up a fun guess-the-celebrity post on his WebMD blog. Think you can identify a famous person from their early photos? Can you identify these kids?

I’ll give you a hint: they now have a baby of their own together. Give up? Wanna try some others? Follow the link.

Looking so cute in her Zutano outfit
The state of our little family, in the style of Time Magazine’s Milestones section. Just because.
Expanding: Pooky’s vocabulary. We can no longer keep track of all the words she knows. Alas, she tends to favor some more than others, particularly “mine” and “no.” She can never resist pointing out [...]

Way back in December of ‘06 I wrote longingly of a future without diapers. Billions of diapers later, potty training is still but a tantalizing dream. At least I know that when the time is right, we’re all set with the ultra cool Potty Bench, from Boon. This baby’s got everything we’re going to need [...]

I’m guessing that anyone who’s reading this blog is internet-aware enough to have seen, or at least heard of, this Will Ferrell video called The Landlord. It’s generated a ton of publicity, partly because it’s so funny, but also because of Mr. Ferrell’s cute and very young co-star, who uses some mature language. Now, some [...]

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to describe how cool Automoblox are, but they’re so superlatively cool that everything I think of sounds like a cliche. So, I’ll just tell you that I haven’t seen a cooler kids’ product out there. They’re so sleek, so aerodynamic looking, so much fun, that I’m [...]

Bath time is one of Pooky’s favorite parts of the day. If she’s feeling grumpy (which she often is toward the end of the day), a nice bath never fails to cheer her up. The only problem is that, until recently, she insisted on having her Mommy in the tub with her. Otherwise, bath time [...]

Sometimes the little things in life can bring so much joy. The Snack Trap is just such a thing. It’s designed so that baby can reach in and grab a Cheerio (or other small snack) while preventing the rest from spilling out, even when dropped. It took a long weekend of traveling and hectic-ness for [...]

Like with clothes, I find that the most comfortable, usable items tend to be the most ugly. It’s one of the more unfortunate mysteries of the cosmos. Rarely do I come across something that manages to be modern, stylish and useful all at once. The Peti, a chic five-in-one piece from the Seimi Baby Collection [...]