Okay, our “babies” are now a bit older, but these books are ones that we recommend!

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What to Expect When You Are Expecting
by Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway

What to Expect The First Year
by Eisenberg, Murkoff, Hathaway

Annabel Karmel’s New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner
by Annabel Karmel

Baby Massage for Beginners
by Peter Walker

Hop, Skip and Jump
by Peter Walker

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Okay, our “babies” are now a bit older, but these things sure were helpful to us…

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Hippy Chick
We saw our friend with one of these. We loved the idea and she recommended it to us (as she has to so many others).
Now we gladly recommend the hippy chick too.
Tolii and Tosha loved to sit on [...]

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Arcade Fire is a popular Canadian alternative music group; Again, I catch these things well after others have made them popular.  I haven’t listened to them much.  Probably all of 6 minutes so far (the same song twice).  I like them, well this song to start with; In particular, I really liked the interactive music [...]

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We had a wonderful afternoon walk after the kids’ swimming lessons (like last week, Tosha put up a fuss, let’s hope he’ll settle into the lessons by next week). We’ve written a separate Kids’ Outings page about the walk itself. There are a ton more photos, of course, in our gallery.
We drove the [...]

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Tosha took to pink cats during the ferry ride to Jersey (and back).
Tolii is unimpressed. (We’re sure Tosha did it just to wind him up): “Pink is for girls”, says Tolii.
And tonight at bedtime, after seeing Tosha with both pink cats in his bed, said, “My doggy is going to eat them up”.

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After swim lessons, Tolii and daddy stopped at the park nearby. After a good play and pee in the bushes (does he drink the entire contents of the pool?), we got back into the car to meet granny, who was shopping at Homebase.
Tolii asked how you drive a car.
“You take lessons from a professional [...]

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