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The Snuggin Go story begins with our founder Beth Rumack, a neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) and mother of two, with years of experience teaching parents of premature and term infants how to position their babies in car seats using rolled blankets and towels. These impromptu solutions often rolled out of position or were hard to maintain for parents over time. The result was unsafe seating position for young infants. In 2004, when Beth’s daughter was born weighing only 6 lbs, Beth took it upon herself to design the Snuggin Go to correctly position preterm and term infants in their seats.

My boys love reading books that are interactive and I love reading interactive books with them.  It’s a fact.  There’s nothing better than all of us laying in bed and reading countless books.  But my kids are also obsessed with our computer.  If you’re kids are anything like mine and like books and computers, you should check out Story Fort’s Interactive Digital Books.

Story Fort specializes in interactive digital books for kids ages 3+, and features books designed to engage young readers’ imaginations and encourage their sense of learning.

We love arts and crafts at our house as it allows our two boys to express their creative genius in many forms.  However, our art area is unorganized and messy.  Seriously, where do you store all those colored pencils, crayons, markers, paint, and paper?

Check out this Magnetic Wall Organizer at the Great Little Trading Company.  This is a cupboard, shelf and organizer in one simple, great looking piece! It’s a wall mounted magnetic board which includes its own strong magnetic hooks, pen pots and storage trays for keys, pens, papers and other important items – perfect for all those things you always need but can never find! Keep the containers and their contents on the board, or carry them about as you need them.

It’s inevitable that you will be stuck indoors for some days during the month of April.  Which can only mean that you will break out all the craft projects you can think of to keep the kids busy.  I’m sure this will include lots of coloring, which brings us to our next point.

Color A Smile is a non-profit organization that spreads smiles with cheerful drawings. Since 1986 they have been collecting crayon drawings from children. Every month they mail thousands of these original crayon ‘masterpieces’ throughout the United States. The majority of the drawings are mailed to senior citizens but they are happy to send ’smiles’ to anyone who would like them.

I received an email from Julie Elkeshen with CityMommy.  (Check out our feature of CityMommy.)  With her permission (because she is very passionate about this product), I’ve posted her write up on Haydeburri Lane’s Rascals & Routines. Julie has graciously extended her 15% off discount with the coupon code ‘citymom’.  Enjoy the read!

“I think that the most challenging thing that I have faced as a mother so far is……bedtime! Some parents just have this down…but for me, it has always been a challenge! Getting them to follow a routine was like pulling teeth! Then I stumbled upon Haydeburri Lane’s Rascals & Routines.

I’m always looking for constructive and creative ways to spend time with our two boys.  I love doing artsy and crafty things with them and nothing gets me more excited than watching their faces light up as they learn different things.  But, admittedly, it is hard to hold their attention for an extended period of time.

But suppose you could sit down with your child and calmly do a craft project together in a nurturing and learning environment.

Your nine months are up, the baby has arrived and reality sets in.  Although you probably didn’t sleep through the night your last trimester, now you really aren’t sleeping through the night.  The baby is crying and sleep becomes something your body craves.  You think to yourself, ‘Didn’t I just put the pacifer in the baby’s mouth?’  So, you get up to see what all the fuss is about only to realize that the baby has spit the pacifier out…again!  Sound familiar?

If you’re tired of traditional baby songs, check out this Coldplay CD for babies.  ColdPlay’s greatest hits are here for you and your baby to enjoy. You’ll love these lullaby renditions done with harps, glockenspiels and bells bringing the enchanting songs of Coldplay to your child’s nightime rituals. So, grab a bottle of… milk and start humming along, because this is one CD the whole family can fall asleep to!

Songs on the CD include:

1. In My Place
2. Clocks
3. Yellow
4. The Scientist
5. Don’t Panic
6. Trouble
7. God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

Ready or not, Grandma…Here I come with a suitcase, blanket and bear rattle!  This Pink Gingham Suitcase makes for a great gift to Grandmothers who don’t yet know they’re going to be a Grandma, or don’t yet know they’ll be welcoming a granddaughter to the world.

The suitcase comes with an incredibly soft, full-sized pink baby blanket and a soft, white bear rattle.  Can’t you just see your daughter packing the suitcase and heading over to her grandmothers?  Too cute.  They also have a suitcase in blue for boys.  Check it out at Tots of Love.

If you’re tired of buying bibs, bottles, toys, and baby clothes for your grandchild, why not give the creative gift of a zoo membership.  We have one and we love it!  Not only is it a creative gift idea for a new parent, but it gives them a guilt free excuse to leave the house with baby and not have to spend money.  

The zoo pass also lets the parent and the child have a fun, interactive, and educational activity to partake in.  So, before you buy another onesie, give some thought to purchasing a zoo pass at your local zoo.