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Stop buying expensive baby toys. Here’s what babies really want…

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Plastic wrapping, cardboard boxes, paper -- this is what really gets our babies going. Forget the expensive bubble blowing baby lawn mower, or the little plastic house that has a million singing buttons and flashing lights. It keeps her attention for maaaaybe two minutes. And then she eyes the box that it came in, and you’ve got a babysitter made of cardboard for at … [Read more...]

Bye bye, baby. Hello, toddler! The baby turns one…

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I can’t believe how fast a year has gone by. One year ago today I was in the hospital anxiously awaiting the birth of my daughter, with nothing but excitement and fantasies of a perfect baby running through my brain. After a relatively easy labor -- I slept through 10 centimeters of dilation (thank you, epidural!) and pushed 4 times -- little Annabelle Grace was born. I … [Read more...]

Moms can hang in Hollywood in hot pink skinny jeans, too. Just saying…

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Don’t mind me, just basking in the afterglow of yet another fantastic trip to So Cal over my 4th of July vacay. As I mentioned in my last blog “My quick diet before Hollywood…”, Jeff and I took a baby-free trip down to Hermosa Beach to visit our friends, basically trying to relive the good old pre-baby days of partying like it’s 1999 and coming home with a top 3 … [Read more...]