It’s no secret that my favorite book company is Barefoot Books, their wonderful worldy stories and practice of not selling through major companies just steals my heart. As a final debut party giveway I saved the possibly best prize, for last, a BASKET of books direct from Barefoot! Just comment on this post to win!
Don’t forget it isn’t to late to enter to win some Mabel’s Labels or A Baby IQ cd! Enter to win all three!
Hopefully everyone remembers the wonderful labels I reviewed from Mabel’s Labels. If not find it in the archives and read it. These things are amazing! Here’s a chance for you to get your own! Post in the comments with 5 things you would label and you’ll be entered for a chance to win!!
One lucky winner will get a gift certificate for a package of labels!
Make it higher with the Baby IQ product line from Brainy Baby! Anyone who reads this site should already know I’m a HUGE fan of Brainy Baby. I find them to be so much better then the other guy. Recently TV for babies has been debated, but just like everything else I think it depends on how you do it. I don’t believe TV should be a babysitter, so the more it involves the parents the better in my mind. In cooperation with the National Literacy Trusts – Talk to You Baby Campaign, Brainy Baby has a new, to us anyway, line of videos and CDs. Apparently thy have been in the UK for a few years now. Their Baby IQ videos feature NO Words. Seem weird? The point is that you actually talk to your baby. Instead of some unknown, faceless voice saying “One,” your baby hears your voice and sees your face as you say “Wow, look at the one brown dog! He’s running!” creating a larger vocabulary. Instead of learning “One” your baby will learn whatever you can associate with the video. Instead of voices you will hear beautiful classical music played by The London Symphony Orchestra. There is a series of 4, Colors, Counting, Baby’s First Words, and The World Around us. The available CDs are extended versions of the songs played in the video. Good classical music for the car, naptime, or playtime. DVDs are $17.95 CDs are $14.95
Okay enough facts and info. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty. I have watched all the DVDs, they are pretty well assembled. We seem to watch counting and colors the most. For colors they shows screens of items in particular colors, obviously, then show rainbow items. There is a few minutes of each color before the adorable Baby I or Baby Q, wonderful little marionette babies, do a little skit to show what color is next. Those babies are so stinkin’ cute! I wonder if Brainy Baby will offer stuffed toys of them! Besides the obvious of sitting and watching to DVDs while talking to Blu about what he sees, I’ve been known to just play them while we play together. Sometimes he may stop for a minute to watch, sometimes not, but the music is good to play to. It also seems perfect for nap time. We will watch a video, talk about it, and eventually he just goes to sleep.
The CDs, well I do listen to them. In reality they are great classical music. They aren’t some super special CD with some special benefit. Classical music isn’t exactly a sing-a-long, but it has been proven to raise IQs. In general though the CDs are better classical music recording then any other Baby CD I’ve heard, and they are equal to any adult CD. So I recommend them. If it wasn’t for the cute babies, toys, etc on the packaging I’d say to buy them for your adult friends too!
Since they are UK based it can be tough to find them locally, but don’t fret, You can buy them at THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL STORE!
Be sure to check out their website too, it features sample screens, a few mini games, and the list of awards they’ve won.
Wanna win some? Enter a comment to this post to win a Baby IQ cd!
Comment must be posted by midnight October 31st, 2007 to be eligible to win.
I’m not secretive about the fact that I spend most of my time at the computer. Well it just came to my attention that my computers date was wrong! It has been a week off for who knows how long! My website debuts on the 1st of October, which I just realized is TODAY! My computer has been saying it was a week away!
Needless to say I’ve fallen behind! BUT check out my reviews and stay tuned for how to win excellent prizes!
Well actually you are my sons Onsie, but thanks to Roslyns Closet you at least say Sunshine. Roslyns 
Closet takes baby and Kid clothing to new level by combining wonderful, high quality, garments with adorable kid friendly graphics. Graphics made to look like real drawings, pencil lines and all, really capture childhood. Sayings like “Sunshine,” “Angel Baby,” “Silly Monkey” and many many more are paired with the unique graphics. The clothes come beautifully packaged, and are hands down the nicest material I’ve seen. Super thick, wonderfully stretchy, and as Caitlin discovered somewhat stain resistant these aren’t just plain ol’ Gerber onsies.
Curious about stain resistance? Well, in the same way it seems to play out with all kids, when put in her “Silly Monkey” shirt for the first time, she magically got mustard on it. At first her mom said she wouldn’t be able to wear it again, because we all know mustard never seems to come out, but after a spin in the washer with no extra care to teh stain, it came out! Now I’m not saying their clothes are impossible to
stain, or claiming anything amazing, but their clothes seem somewhat stain resistant. Perhaps it is the incredibly nice material they use?
The only downside to these amazing clothes is that they are so stinkin’ cute you are brought to tears when you kid outgrows them!
While they say your kids clothes shouldn’t have their names on them these days, there’s nothing wrong with some monogram action right? Roslyn’s Closet has a great line of super cool monograms. One big, bright letter in front of a funky background.
$16-$20 per piece, and available in size from Birth to 6t at Roslyn’s Closet
While you’re there check out their new Floral Hats, for your chic little princess.
