Weelicious - Great Recipes for Kid Food

Someone on my mom-listserv recommended this site and I wanted to pass it along - Weelicious is a mom-foodblog devoted to easy, organic baby and toddler food.  Great looking recipes that are straightforward to make.  The author’s son is still under 2 so the recipes are focused in that age-range but my kids (and my husband) will like the food and I eagerly await more.  Great resource for figuring out what to feed the kiddos!

Yoga Pretzel Cards

We have added a new step in our before-bedtime routine for the kids - we all do yoga together for about 20 minutes.  It has really helped both kids calm down and it helps David and I focus fully on the family for a bit.  The kids love these Yoga Pretzel Cards - almost as much for the fact that they are a bunch of cards as for the fact that they have different yoga poses on them.  The cards have a variety of different poses on them, most do-able by kids, and the instructions are very clear.  Afterward, we all sit together briefly and talk about what good things happened that day.  Even the 19-month old contributes anecdotes, though it is usually “took nap!”.  He has no idea how grateful we ALL are that he took a nap that day :)

Goodnight Moon - A Classic for Kids

In case you didn’t receive 3 copies of this book for your babyshower, I just wanted to remind you how good of a book Goodnight Moon is for kids. My 3 year old and my 18 month old still love it and its usually at the top of the heap for books before bedtime. I’m also glad that we’ve gotten 3 copies since that first babyshower because they are ‘well-loved’ (i.e. torn up) and the extras have been pressed into service. And I think its cool that my parents read it to me and now I can read it to my kids. There’s a reason its a classic!