The Portland Ikea just opened this past week. I’m planning on dropping in Monday or Tuesday to check out the fuss (and the meatballs).
Check this out: The Oslo, Norway Ikea will be operating a hostel on site to host sleepovers for shoppers!
Later this month, Ikea Norway will let shoppers sleep overnight in one of [...]

Here’s one in honor of all the Harry Potter craze.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_poq2XDkw

(via Boing Boing)

Have you seen the chipmunk video yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

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.

Okay, so it wasn’t literally Sodor; It was in China at the Thomas the Tank Engine toy manufacturing factory.
As an American journalist based in China, I knew there was a good chance that at some point I’d be detained for pursuing a story. I just never thought I’d be held hostage by a toy factory.
That’s [...]

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 [...]

More humorous things people used to believe from the website, I Used To Believe: The Childhood Beliefs Site:
I feel really stupid now…..but when I was in the second grade, my mom had been in the hospital so many times and came home with a baby every time. This time my father was in the hospital [...]

The state of our little family, in the style of Time Magazine’s Milestones section. Just because.
One: Pooky’s age. We made it a whole year! Hallelujah! It just gets easier from here, right? Right?
Full of tissues: All of our garbage cans. Since getting sick for the second time since starting daycare, Pooky has become a veritable [...]

I’ve written before about products designed to turn your baby into a genius. I was skeptical then, and remain so now. Here’s a new article from USA Today reinforcing the fact that there’s no magic baby product out there that can be shown to increase intelligence. A cynic might wonder if the companies that make [...]

It says here that a new baby deprives its parents of two-months worth of sleep in its first year of life. Seems a little low. Pooky is almost a year old now, and I don’t recall sleeping at all since she was born.
A study has found that many parents are wary of letting their kids [...]