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December 30th, 2008 — Art+Decor (Sounds Fancy), Baby Furniture, Gear Essentials, Kids Furniture, Kids' Decor, Nursery Decor, Nursery Furniture from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Oh how we swoon over the pretty things in life.
We’re guessing you will too with these picks of our favorite things to make the nursery, kids room, or playroom as awesome as you want it to be.
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Online Stores Continue reading → Editors Best of 2008 - The coolest art, decor, kids furniture and kids bedding
December 17th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, Strollers and Stroller-y Things from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I often have feelings of envy as I push my 19 month-old in her stroller on cold days, thinking it would be nice if it were she pushing me around town instead. Eh, I guess there’s plenty of time for…
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Continue reading → Warm as a lamb. Under a blanket. Next to a heat lamp. In Cancun.
December 10th, 2008 — Bedding and Blankets, Burps and Bibs, Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Gear Essentials, serena & lily from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
CMP readers know that Serena & Lily is our one of our favorite destinations for all things nursery and fancy. But now they’ve expanded their offerings beyond their signature bedding and decor to…
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Continue reading → Message to Serena & Lily: Stop adding so many cool items to your site. Love, our wallets.
December 9th, 2008 — Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
There are plenty of products out there that claim to make life easier for parents when really, it just seems like they take money out of our pockets and fill up the landfills. That’s so clearly not…
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Continue reading → All the Wisey-er
November 30th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Can you imagine there are actually people out there who don’t coordinate their baby’s bottle to his blanket, bib, and onesie? Heh. But seriously, if you’re a glass bottle user or just want to take…
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Online Stores Continue reading → Glass Bottles That Don’t Look Like Glass Bottles
November 23rd, 2008 — Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Considering I can barely keep track of my cell phone, let alone a baby bottle cap, just guess how many bottle caps I’ve lost.
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Online Stores Continue reading → Baby Safe Cap - Save your brain cells for more important things
November 17th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, Kids Furniture from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
BabyBjorn did a really brilliant thing when they launched their fantastic new BabySitter Balance bouncy seat - they created an adult-size version and let all the product review editors all sit in it….
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Continue reading → Baby Bjorn makes the bouncy seat of my dreams
November 14th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I’m actually glad that I pitched all of the bottles I used for my first two kids and had to buy new ones for surprise baby #3. Because with all the recent news about plastics leaching BPA…
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Continue reading → Raising a glass to glass baby bottles
October 26th, 2008 — Doodads and Random Bits of Coolness, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I am about the biggest binkie clip evangelist on the planet. What can I say, I’m not a fan of picking up my daughter’s dirty pacifiers off the ground every 4.2 seconds.
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Continue reading → You’re never to young to say “Argh”
October 24th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, car seat cover from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Car seat covers serve three excellent purposes: They make older seats look new, they cover the ugly fabrics, and they wash up easily when it turns out your baby inherited your car sickness thing….
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Online Stores Continue reading → A car seat cover that’s…elegant? What are the chances.
October 19th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, designer stroller liner, stroller liners from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Considering I’m on my third child, I’m probably not the strongest candidate for a stroller liner. But when I got my hands on the beautifully crafted ones from ooYah Baby–funny name, cute stuff–I…
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Continue reading → Stroller liners - totally frivolous and completely necessary
October 17th, 2008 — Bjorn cover, Gear Essentials, Slings and Carriers, carrier cover for baby, front carrier cover, peekaru from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Allow me to set the scene: It is January in New England, subzero temperatures, and I need to get out of the house with my newborn in a front carrier. I used to routinely wear my husband’s coat over…
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Continue reading → Babywearing with utter and complete warmth–for both of you
September 20th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
BornFree is already the go-to source for plenty of moms looking for products safe enough to go into baby’s mouth. They’ve got glass baby bottles, bottles made of BPA-free plastic, and cups free of…
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Continue reading → BornFree pacifiers go BPA free. Which is a pretty good trait in a pacifier if you ask us.
September 6th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I used to love going out to eat, knowing that I had no role whatsoever
in the preparation or clean-up. These days, with three kids and a
diaper bag in tow, in the time it takes for
a single sip of…
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Continue reading → The Neatnik Saucer - A better option than high chair covers the size of a schoolbus
September 4th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Having brought two out of three babies home to a teeny apartment, I’m a trained minimalist where it comes to gear; I love oh-so-cute stuff as much as the next mama. But if it doesn’t combine form and…
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Continue reading → Going cuckoo for cu cu yo
July 28th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, Kids Furniture from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
A high chair isn’t exactly the kind of baby gear you think you’ll fall in love with. A crib, perhaps. A diaper bag, absolutely. But that eyesore in the middle of your dining room that you will spend…
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Online Stores Continue reading → High Chairs of the Rich and Totally Lucky
July 20th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Rather than argue about the value of a changing table, I’d much rather complain about the crappy changing pad options out there. Most are incredibly flimsy, and require covers that end up in the wash…
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Continue reading → A Changing Mat That’s Changing Minds
June 18th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
A few readers have recently written to ask us our favorite car seat reco, and right up there at the top is definitely Britax.
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Continue reading → What’s Cool About Britax Car Seats? For One, the Names.
June 15th, 2008 — Food and Drink, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
Check out any of the mom message boards and you’ll find members bragging about having used Born Free bottles since way before anyone else knew the dangers of BPA or knew how to pronounce Phthalates.
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Continue reading → Born Free, Free of BPA.
June 11th, 2008 — Baby Clothes, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
We’re year-round pool goers in this family, and the water-worshipping indoctrination starts early. Out of the womb and into the pool, I say. That is, once I’ve gotten you out of your diaper, out of…
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Continue reading → A Reusable Swim Diaper. For Real.
June 6th, 2008 — Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
If you crane your neck to peek at my baby in his carrier, I’ll gladly angle him to give you a better view because I’m a sucker for compliments on my progeny. But when well-meaning folks (read: nosy…
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Continue reading → Wanting to Put Your Baby In a Bubble Never Made More Sense
June 5th, 2008 — Gear Essentials, Organics from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
A high-end baby wipe? It was bound to happen. The new Baby Silk cleansing towelettes from MD Moms (who we looooove) are just wonderful if you are up to shelling out $12 for a pack of 72.
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Continue reading → The Luxury Baby Wipe. For Very Lucky Newborns.
April 1st, 2008 — Food and Drink, Gear Essentials from Cool Mom Picks @ Cool Mom Picks
I have one of those toddlers who insists on feeding himself with a spoon or fork. He also refuses to wear a bib. Put those two together and it’s a brutal combination.
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Continue reading → Boon is Putting the Self in Self-Feeding