With a new babe in town, we’ve been making space for one more around the dining room table. Bee’s recently moved to the Stokke Steps chair – a perfect solution for empowering young tots to feel grown-up. It scoots right up to the table like an adult chair, with a handy step for easy entrance
My favorite parts of winter: snow, fire, chili, wool socks, tartan blankets. My least favorite parts of winter: toddler boot struggles. You know the kind, the pushing and pulling and sweating and re-lacing and re-velcroing, and the fleeting success when the inevitable sentence arrives: “Mom! Help! I gotta itch my toes right this second!!!!!!!!” When
On a playdate, I confessed to my friend Heather that I’d never had the stamina to cut my baby’s nails. (Thank goodness for Ken!) What if I nicked his skin? Cut too far? And how on earth do you get those wriggly things to stay still? Her secret tip: Use these while the baby’s asleep.
Good news: the stars have aligned! The softest pajamas in the entire universe are now on sale. (Your littles just got very lucky indeed.) To Buy: Star Loungewear ($45) at Nununu
My friend Tiffany sent a link to this little piece of magic as soon as Scout arrived. The Formula Pro measures, dispenses and mixes water (no air bubbles!) at the perfect temperature using the formula of your choice. The result? A readymade bottle with the push of a button. Those 2am feedings just got a
Bee has a tendency toward hat hatred (Mom! It’s itching my whole entire head off!), but this one’s been in heavy rotation for a bit now. Dare I say it? We’ve cracked the code? The non-itchiest hat there ever was? Time will tell, but it’s looking good, folks… To Buy: Salome Hat ($36) at Appaman.
Wallpaper is lovely and all, but it takes just seconds for me to recall how tedious it is to apply before I shoo the idea out of my head entirely. Plus, it feels so… forever. So permanent. Until now. Tempaper offers both easy application and a (for real) peels-off-when-you’re-over-it adhesive, so you can love that
Sometimes, you just wanna dress up your everyday water, you know? For the days when I’m feeling especially celebratory (and especially parched), I love a few drops of this juniper rose syrup in the old Pellegrino standby. It’s alluring and substantial, so you’ll feel like you’re treating yourself to a ski lodge afternoon in the