The LeapPad2 Explorer is featured in Part III of my 2012 gift guide. April is mom to a very happy four-year-old boy, Cameron. She works full-time outside the home, and Cameron started full-time JK this past September. The two are an active pair between hockey, soccer and baseball. April runs a fitness bootcamp on the…
Introducing: Kids Music by Marcie
If I had to choose just one extracurricular activity for my children, it would be a difficult toss-up between swimming and music classes. Swimming is a life skill. And a scholarship sport. Formally introducing music into your child’s life, on the other hand, is proven to improve memory and math skills. The folks at Kindermusik –…
LANA Natural Wear organic loveys #SafeSleep
I’d never heard the term “lovey” before having kids. Enter sleep training with babe No. 1 and introducing a lovey was such a core part of the extra-gentle method (from Good Night, Sleep Tight) that I wore The K Man’s teddy – one of those teddy bear heads with a small blanket for a body…
OM home organic cotton 2-in-1 romper & jumper (guest review)
Shari is a new mommy to a little girl, Mackenzie, who’s 5.5 months old. While she’s living it up on maternity leave, her husband is at teacher’s college (a brave time to go back to school, if you ask me!). Shari asked me to point out that she’s won an organic duvet and cloth diapers from Mommy Gearest,…
Netflix: Just For Kids
I’m not gonna lie: we watch a lot of TV at our house. I was the kid who would wake up at 5 a.m. if I knew a certain movie or TV show would be on (before I could actually tell time), sneaking downstairs in the dark, sitting close to the tube so I wouldn’t…
Snug Organics’ 100% Organic Cotton Sherpa Sleeper #SafeSleep
We had dinner with my in-laws on Saturday night and Big B’s mom was telling me how she managed to find a pair of Angry Birds pyjamas for The K Man for Christmas. She said, “they aren’t a nice material at all but they were impossible to find here in Canada – I got them…
Mozart’s Magical Castle at Casa Loma, with Opera Atelier
I have always loved the theatre – from my first broadway show (Cats) when I was just a child to being onstage myself many times (at school, at camp, and in karaoke bars on three continents since you’re well aware by now that I’m a closet broadway star). Sharing the drama, the costumes and the…
Special guest post: Right to Play
I went to university with a couple of Nicks. One married one of my besties, and I happened to live abroad at the same time – but not with – the other. This other Nick turned out to be a blogger, too. A daddy blogger. I’m delighted to share a special guest post from Nick…
Parum Pum Pum from B. You Toys (guest review)
The Parum Pum Pum from B. You Toys is featured in part two of my gift guide series. Sarah Lynn from YYZ Bambina, a blog I’d encourage you to check out, has one darling 10 month old little lady and is inching closer and closer to the inevitable return-to-work. Her mat leave has been filled…
Build-A-Bear’s Merry Mint Pup (guest review)
The Build-A-Bear Merry Mint Pup is featured in part three of my holiday gift guides. This guest review is written by Christine who has one child, Little One (a very “spirited” preemie who just turned four years old). A teacher by profession, Christine is now a social media maven. She works from home for the most…