Graco SweetPeace

I just found the neatest parent webspace. It's kind of like MythBusters meets parenting.

DadLabs promotes a wide variety of information and products, but the SweetPeace had me at MP3 player. I just started clicking through previous videos, when I came across quite possibly the coolest rocker (complete with rockability!). The neatest thing is that it works with other Graco car seats. Which is very, very cool. For parents.

Your Chance to Contribute

Grae and I have names we are leaning toward, but in the event we come to our senses and decide our primary choice for names completely blow, we'd like to have some back up names. While we have names chosen based on family ties, we also have names we just like. We've got nine months to be set in stone certain on a name, but it's fun to get a head start and entertain ourselves for the next eight months with hypotheticals.

Feel free to add your two cents or names to the list. Later this month, both Grae and I will post our "no way we're ever naming a human being this" lists!

The Onesie to End All Onesies

Sozo Baby makes possibly the cutest camo onesie this side of the universe. I'm a little biased because of my love of the Stegosaurus, but it's the crossed bones on the bum that win me over. I made this page the home page on Grae's and my shared computer when we first decided we were ready for baby.

The Aesthete

I was trying to find a onesie that I really liked that had a stegosaurus on the front and stumbled into this website. It's called Wry Baby and everything on that website had me giggling; even the US politics ones seemed so perfect.

gDiapers

This is my most idealized parenting fantasy: not using wasteful, environmentally damaging diapers. After reading many, many points about the environmental damage of disposable diapers (the third largest landfill filler, when less than 5% of the population uses them), I was set on finding something different.

The diapers are cloth with flushable inserts. The inserts can either be flushed, composted or disposed. They are designed to break down in 50-150 days. Which is quite impressive. They recommend 6 shells for each weight category, but I think with an immobile baby for the first 14lbs, four shells should be enough.

I've read some reviews about these diapers, that they're not great for blow-outs or newborns, but I can't find a similar product that can compare.