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The Boon Naked Tub Provides two support positions for stages newborn to toddler.It's Collapsible design and hook make storing easy. Rotating support brace for quick and secure positioning. Simple, one piece design makes transitioning between stages easy without losing parts. Drain plug for quick, complete water drainage.
Make bath time clean-up fun with the OXO Tot Whale Pail. Use the Whale’s wide mouth to fetch toys out of the bathtub. The soft, non-slip handle makes it easy for little bathers to help scoop and rinse toys, even with wet hands. Store the Pail on the holder which suctions to the wall and sits on the bathtub ledge for added security. Holes along the side of the Pail help increase ventilation and dry toys. A translucent window shows which toys are being stored.
Have you ever wondered what Barbie would do if she were pregnant? She would have a fashion shoot of course! Found these fantastic Barbie maternity photos on a super creative blog called Itsy Bitsy Creation. I think Barbie looks fabulous with a baby bump! What do you think?
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Happy May! This month we are running a food drive to support the local food bank here in NW Denver:http://www.bienvenidosfoodbank.org/. Bienvenidos believes that choice is tied to dignity. For this reason, the Food Bank distributes based on a shopping model. After donated and purchased food has been crated and inventoried, it is arranged on display-tables. Clients then pass through the Food Bank with carts, recycled bags and boxes to shop for items they want. Please bring what you can in non-perishable food to Real Baby any time throughout the month of May and we will bring it to Bienvenidos. At the end of May we will hold a Feeding Event at the shop with prizes, demos, and great give-a-ways!
As a parent, especially a new one, you hear from people daily about how time flies with your children. "Enjoy this age," and "they grow up so fast," people have said to me on a daily basis. They were speaking the truth. Enjoy every minute. Pay attention, listen, laugh, guide, teach, hold, and love with all you are. Time is precious, and yes, it moves too quickly.
Good things come in small packages! The Mountain Buggy Duet is the world's first urban chic side-by-side twin stroller the size of a single buggy. The Duet also takes two travel systems or two single Mountain Buggy carrycots - perfect for newborn twins! Check out the video to see all the features in action!
kimmel kids + splendid presentcrafting community at the ace hotel
April 27-29, 2012 • The Ace Hotel • Palm Springs, CA
SHIFT GEARS from the hectic hustle of city life to a poolside getaway filled with craft, recreation and creativity!
JOIN US for a weekend retreat designed to bring creative families closer together.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS include underwater photography, succulent gardens, t-shirt + sneaker customization, henna tattoos, leatherworking, creative cookies and macramé.
ARTIST KAREN KIMMEL will lead the group along with a talented team: Tanya Aguiñiga, Cathy Callahan, Clare Vivier, Sarah Shreves, Rene Holguin from RTH, and Christine Schmidt from Yellow Owl Workshop.
FITNESS AND RECREATION includes skateboarding, relay races, obstacle courses and a ping-pong tournament brought to you by Undefeated and The Yard.
POOLSIDE FUN kicks off with morning yoga and continues into the evening with a family BBQ, game night, and a desert disco. Milk + Bookies will host storytelling under the stars and A+R’s Toy Lab will feature a beautiful selection of innovative toys. On-site we’ll have a lending library and even custom Kimmel Kids’ tipis!
Details taken care of by Kid Concierge.
Special package rate starting at $820* includes:
• 2 nights lodging (standard king or double)
• 2 days of art instruction, supplies + recreation activities
• Friday night taco dinner, fireside s’mores and games
• Saturday and Sunday continental breakfast
• Family portraits by Splendid
• Custom Crafting Community tote filled with goodies
*Basic package rate includes 3 people. Tax and resort fee not included.
Real Baby loves all the strollers from UppaBaby. Meet our new favorite the CRUZ!The ideal combination of function and style, the CRUZ delivers a compact stroller solution without compromising on the features of a full-size stroller. Grows with your child from birth through the toddler years. Read a great review of the CRUZ stroller here!
Orbit Baby is happy to partner with ERGObaby, makers of ergonomic and versatile baby carriers. To receive your free ERGObaby carrier,
Purchase an Orbit Baby Stroller Travel System G2 in store from a participating Orbit Baby retailer*, between April 2 and April 30, 2012. For a full list of participating retailers, please click here.
Receive your free ERGObaby carrier in store from the same retailer. Available while supplies last, in the following styles only:Original: Black/Camel | Camel/Camel | Cranberry | Galaxy Grey | Mystic Purple; Organic Desert Bloom
I have to admit that I am a bit of a stroller geek. I can identify most strollers from across the street. I like to stay updated on all the newest models, and all the latest improvements. Here are some rides I found that I won't be selling, but I sure do love!
The kids are home this week, and we are taking the time to have fun, relax, and enjoy each others company without the hustle of the school schedule. In cleaning out my school lunch supplies, I realized it's time to update some of our delivery systems. Here are some great products we use to get food safely, economically, and earth friendly, to our kids lunch tables. Spring cleaning feels good!
I'm not sure what to make of this trailer that shares the name of one of the most popular pregnancy books ever! This seems like an effort to get guys to come to this movie, however, I find some of it really funny. Uppababyand BOB strollers score huge in product placement. No Judgie!
Give your baby the best, safest, and most comfortable place to sleep. Their own crib!
Naturepedic products eliminate hazardous chemicals found in conventional mattresses while offering a more natural and non-toxic alternative for parents. In addition, Naturepedic does not sacrifice critical features and benefits such as waterproofing and a hypoallergenic design. With so many “organic/natural/eco” options available (cotton batting, soybean foam, coconut husks, natural latex/rubber, wool, etc.), it can be difficult to differentiate among the various offerings.
Naturepedic was founded by a quarter century environmental engineer familiar with hazardous chemicals. Through in-depth research, Naturepedic has identified and selected the most natural and non-toxic materials that make sense on a practical level. All Naturepedic products follow these principles and priorities:
Priority #1: No harmful chemicals.
Priority #2: No allergenic materials.
Priority #3: Natural, organic and renewable materials wherever possible.
Priority #5: Third party independent testing and verification.
Naturepedic has become the standard for safe and healthy organic baby and children's mattresses and is used by over 150 hospitals across the U.S.
Naturepedic products offer a much needed solution to the chemical and safety issues, as well as the quality and comfort concerns, of today's discerning parents.
My daughter has a crush on a boy and it's killing me.
I don't want her to like boys. I want her to like crayons and spinning around until she falls to the ground in hysterical laughter. I want her to like Barbie, but to keep her distance from Ken. I want her to like reading in bed, creating dance routines with friends, painting her nails, and listenting to her favorite music.
I want her to like harassing her brother with her cunning. I want her to like going to the movies, eating popsicles no matter what the temperature. I want my daughter to like going to school, learning, and hanging out with her girlfriends .
However, that is precisely where the trouble began. The group of girls has planted the seed that has grown into a full on crush. Love letters, maps on how to deliver the love letters, and directions for all the girls to paticipate in said delivery of the letters, have all transpired during the girls "hanging out." This Valentine's day the "crush" sent her a flower at school. Home run, slam dunk, game over...
There is nothing I can do. It's time to get over it and move on, or move away.
I admit it. This post is a bit geeky, but you have to understand that I have spent countless hours making and flying paper airplanes with my son. I have the paper cuts to prove it.
Everyone wants a piece of the new parent, especially their wallet. App stores are part of that money rush. There’s mobile software that can help parents name their babies, soothe their babies, entertain their babies and speak to their babies in sign language.
The newest baby app of note on the market comes from WebMD Baby. What's great is it's free, and is arguably more practical and useful than many of the others combined.
WebMD Baby is available only on Apple devices, at least until the company releases an Android version later this year. It provides a strong complement to — if not a total replacement for — Baby Connect ($5 on Android andApple), the best mobile assistant for new parents.
Unlike Baby Connect, WebMD Baby comes packed with information. The app takes advantage of its parent company’s trove of medically related content to offer parents guidance on what to expect from their child’s physical and emotional development, as well as health-related counsel when things go wrong.
At the app’s core are roughly 400 articles, 600 tips and 70 videos. I think the price is right for the App craving, information starved, new parent.
I came across this photo series today from photographer Rachel Hulin. It really caught my eye! Flying babies! Exhausted and bored on an assignment, photographer Rachel Hulin, Henry’s mother, thought it would be fun to make her baby fly. So Henry flew. “The photo was sort of magical in an unexpected way and I wanted to make more,” Hulin said. She posted the photograph on Facebook and soon there was a flurry of comments. “Some people like the cute ones, some people like the spooky ones,” she said. “It’s an interesting litmus test.”
Hovering above a bed in a hotel, through a barn and into a shower, the flying baby photographs transcend cute and slip into the surreal. “I felt like the pictures could show the world that babies inhabit that is all their own,” Hulin said.
While she wouldn’t divulge the exact details of how Henry flies, Hulin did admit that it was more subtraction than addition. “I wanted the flights to feel genuine,” she said. “These are places we are really in everyday, it’s not a cut-and-paste job on random interiors and landscapes.”
Speaking to some of the unusual body positions of her flying offspring, Hulin said, “I never throw him, and I never move him into a place in the frame that he wasn’t in to begin with. I like Henry to fly the way he feels like it, I never pose him in a specific way. Sometimes he’s graceful and sometimes he’s a little hunchback. I think telling you more would ruin it.”
Real Baby is your only store in Colorado for Bloom Baby furniture! We love their contemporary baby furniture and gear. The European designs with precision engineering combine superior styling and comfort to fit your lifestyle! Here are just a few of our favorites. Find them today at Real Baby!
safety and environmental sustainability have always been priorities in the bloom creative process
every bloom product exceeds all applicable safety standards and regulations. we proactively minimize the use of harmful chemicals and processes in our products and manufacturing, our products are certified compliant with 2009 USA CPSIA requirements
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bloom wooden products are free of wood PCP and other toxic wood preservatives, fiberboard (MDF) free, use formaldehyde-free adhesive, low voc finishes and originate from certified sustainable beech and birch wood forests
bloom prohibits the use of wood from intact natural forests, high conservation value forests, protected areas, and high value tropical wood species
