Posts under ‘Just Babbling’

Pooky’s been really into babies for a while now – both the real live ones and the plastic and plush ones. She’s been delighted at the idea of having her very own “baby brother” growing in mommy’s belly and has given my belly much love since she found out there’s a baby inside.
Here comes my [...]

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 its [...]

Here’s one in honor of all the Harry Potter craze.
(via Boing Boing)

Have you seen the chipmunk video yet?

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 [...]