Danny Novo
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I know I have waxed on about these blocks before. And I know they are terribly expensive ($128 for a set of five, we bought two sets). But these are, bar none, the best toy we got for our baby. Update to make the “buy these blocks at Constructive Playthings for $129″ link more obvious. These […]
Our babies always had trouble sleeping. The first one didn’t sleep through the night until he was six months old (though now he could sleep through an earthquake). The second one slept like a dream for three or four months and has woken up at least once every night since then. We swaddled and breast fed […]
We’re on our third baby monitor. The first was some Graco/FirstBaby something-or-other brand whose salient feature was that it had two receivers. We thought (mistakenly) that we’d need two receivers, one we could leave in the kitchen, and one in our bedroom. We were wrong. This is what we needed: rock solid reception, lots of channels, […]
Once you’re done with the baby bathtub, you’ll need a bath mat for your regular tub. We moved our boys to the regular bath when they were between six months and a year old (when they could reliably sit up and we’re reliably splashing gallons of water out of their baby bathtub). The bath mats […]
As our kids start to move out of babyhood, I feel the need to tell someone about the best baby gear we came across while helping them survive to toddlerhood. I also have a pair of friends about to have a baby (Hi Denny, Hi Aprille!), who probably already have all their gear lined up, […]
As noted in another post, I sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to my baby boy when I am putting him to sleep. All I know is the first verse (well, and the strange one about a bat up high like a teatray in the sky, but it turns out that’s from Alice in Wonderland) and […]
