we love to share the love, and we know you do too, so it's time for our annual "dance for a cause" events! this year, bld is proud to partner with the national down syndrome society in december! the three events will be held in brooklyn , philly and manhattan ;. 5% of our ticket sales will be donated to the ndss, and we will also be conducting a raffle with some great prizes to raise even more money! in addition, the ndss will be at each event with some super fundraisers (emphasis on the fun). so bring your dancin' shoes, your aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and wallets and come out to support this great cause! click here to see some of the prizes that have been donated for the raffles!
can't make it to one of our dance for a cause events this december? click here to donate now and support the national down syndrome society!
We are all about a great deal here at BLD and with holiday shopping upon us, we have discovered some great new sale sites! Fabu stuff for the whole fam at amazing prices. Thing is, you have to be invited to join the “secret” network and get the cool emails with the skinny on the sales. Lucky for you, you've got a bff in bld! Follow these links to our invites at Totsy.com, BTrendie , and Haute Look so you can be hip without paying the price.
Like a typical five year old, we're pretty proud of ourselves and are excited to be a big kid now. So thanks for celebrating with us! The Celebrity Baby Blog at People.com sent some wishes our way, calling bld "perfect family fun" and noting some of our celebrity fans. Be sure to check out your city page to see when the next pajama party will be (you never know who might show up)!
didja hear that some baby einstein videos can be returned for your money back? great way to get some cash for those dvd’s you've been using as coasters and paperweights!
if you haven't seen rattle n roll's super hip baby announcements and cards go check them out ! and the best part about their christmas cards is that they are donating 100% of the profits to water.org, a non-profit committed to providing safe drinking water to everyone in the world. so you get totally unique, personalized christmas cards and all of the money goes to a great cause? win win.
winter is just around the corner. but with boot options this fabulous, who’s complaining? check out vincent shoe store’s rain and winter boots for kids (their frog boots make me break into song, like this kid. my own little men wore their western chief fireman boots so much last year that grammy bought them each another pair in the next size. and for keeping those tiny toddler toes toasty, take a look at kamik’s collection of snow boots for kids. B-O-O-T-S, BOOTS!
seems like an oxymoron, right? not if you try these healthy alternatives at your next halloween party. these yummy orange jack-o-lanterns will appeal to even your pickiest eaters . . . and try this recipe for black olive dip to serve with carrot sticks for an orange and black snack . . . we all remember making these popcorn hands when we were kids – what an easy and fun activity to do with our own little monsters! and of course, don’t toss those pumpkin seeds – toast ‘em up! no tricks here – just healthy treats!
Want some ideas on how to green up your holidays? check out all the ideas at green halloween or read their guest blog on our site!
as the holidays approach, i’m inspired to save a little cash and spend a little creative time with my kids making gifts ourselves! check out Handmade Home , a new book by Amanda Blake Soule, chock full of ideas for repurposing materials you already have to create lovely and useful items. and for everyday craft ideas, check out kids craft weekly where mom Amber and her two kiddos share their latest endeavors! the site has newsletters with ideas by theme, articles with suggestions for indoor and outdoor activities, and printables that kids will love!
So my disco kid is ALL about superheroes these days and can’t decide which one he wants to be (other than a UPS Man) when he grows up. Enter Fliggity with the cutest superhero garb that you won’t mind being seen in public with outside of Halloween. All of the capes detach so it’s a 2 in one outfit for your little ones. Lots of cool mod styles and colors and customizable letter t’s too. We’re stuck on storm chaser and green machine.
Several weeks ago we were waxing admiration for BLD's Kara and her chaotic
house full of kids, sans a nanny. Well last Sunday 8/30 her and hubby Scott welcomed Henry Aaron, 3 weeks early, but healthy and robust at a 7.11 lbs.
Kara and fam are doing well and all of us at the BLD home offices wish her
well and can't wait to meet the little bugger. I am sure she will be
tweeting again any second, so keep up with her tribe at
www.twitter.com/babylvsdisco.
check out Cool Mom Picks for fall and send your cool kids back to school. from backpacks to lunch boxes, notebooks, clothes, jackets, shoes and accessories for all, you are sure to find something as unique as your kid (and none of those embarrassing showing up in the same outfit - GULP! - days).
alex and tash have been emailing me for months and months and months and then....we put our collective powers together, crossed the many seas and finally arrive together down under, as baby loves disco is set to sail in sydney. the press is already pressing and it's impressive - dig the early scoop from the sun herald here. visit bld aus here.
parenthood ain’t easy, baby. but with some support, love and humor, it’s still pretty swell. meet kara, a member of our bld home office crew here in philly who has become (among other things) the online “voice” of the disco in the form of blogging, twittering and various social networking. she and her husband scott are expecting their third boy (henry) in september, and they found out a few months ago that he has down syndrome. currently the parents of two healthy boys (william, 5 and edmund, 2), they lost their first child (sydney) to a fatal birth defect in 2003. upon learning of henry’s diagnosis, scott and kara have experienced a mix of joy, grief and sheer astonishment at the ridiculous odds of such things happening to one couple (and have wondered if perhaps they ought to put it to good use and play the lottery?). kara is recording the journey day by day on twitter at www.twitter.com/babylvsdisco and on her personal blog at www.threelittlekings.blogspot.com.
in the crazy mixed up world that we live in, sometimes all you need to do is watch a pug push a stroller to give you the right perspective.
we've been following along in the diary of a suprise mom who likes to say that "I was pregnant, now I'm a parent and it still comes as a surprise." so it was no surprise when we saw her at BLD overseas and checked in on her blog post that tells the fine tale.
Some muppet faces are more familiar than others, so here's a handy guide to some of your favourites in celebration of sesame's street 4oth.
why Y water you ask? because it is the coolest packaging we have seen at the disco in eons. great organic water with lots of nutrients for the brain, bones, muscle and immune system. just what every little tyke needs. after you've fixed your need for a beverage, the bottles fit together like building blocks, keep em occupied for hours! - green and clean, how cool is that?
more good music for the kids (and parents) as ziggy marley jumps on the kids music bandwagon with his latest release - family time. nice, easy, fun - nothing over the top, but solid. i'd give it 7.5 disco balls out of 10. my oldest son samson felt like it only deserved a 5 at best, but my middle son charlie gives it a ten. check it out for yourself.
baby loves disco boston is unlike any other. partly b/c of host mom kris, partly the cozy confines of the revolution rock bar, but mostly because of the people! the moms, dads, grandparents, uncles, aunts and friends that make up the scene. come see what i mean with this great photo documentary from the boston globe .
At the very least, this is a cute distraction. At the most, it's a fun, super catchy introduction for the whole family to the talents of Neil Sedaka. Hopefully, Sedaka's kids' debut, Waking Up is Hard to Do will lead to further exploration of his poptacular back catalog of hits. And I can pretty much guarantee that the line "Lunch, lunch will keep us together" will get stuck in your head for days!
in this month of dads gonna try and give shine to some daddy blogs that i spy on all the time even though i deny it to most. check out this dad kelly (father of 15 month old Aileke. he's an american cat, living in madrid with his wife april and he comes from a unique space, with an interesting spin on how dad things get spun. dig.
Rock in the Treetops, tweet, tweet tweet: As par for the course, we at the disco are quite late to jump on our own bandwagon sometimes, but we didn't miss the twitter boat, so if you stating tweeting months ago or are newly initiated like us, come follow us at http://twitter.com/babylvsdisco !
one for the kids from the west coast's dj ripley sends who sends us an amazing kids mix of "jolly, bouncy hip-hop-reggae-breaky fun with lots of storytelling and some international flavors". download for free here; and one for the parents from our philly friends Emynd & Bo Bliz who put together an extremely thorough Philly Disco mix. a must have for Disco connesiuers as well as know-nots that know nothing about Philly’s rich Disco History. Download it now.
parenting sucks up all your free time and you have no more time to read? take the fast lane and digest dozens of 6 word stories that will leave you transported and inspired.
take over the playground with the planet's first "Pocket-Sized DJ system," - a 60GB portable media player that boasts two "turntables" and a "mixer" -- all within a unit that easily fits into your palm. Users have access to two independent audio channels and can beatmatch with the press of a button. it's a party in your pocket all ready to go.
randomly stumbled upon this random post in this randomly wonderful blog that is the life of lulu. read the cute tag "my mom and i went clubbing. we left exhausted. but what great fun it was." and thought -that's what we were shooting for lulu! great call! great kid!
Before there were iPods, or even CDs, and around the time cassettes let break dancers move the party to a cardboard dance floor on the sidewalk, there were boomboxes. It's been 20 years since the devices disappeared from the streets. It's high time to press rewind on this aspect of America's musical history, and we do so with thanx to our friends from npr.
dug up three interesting pieces in my daily surfing this morning and i think you'll dig each: babble.com has a food issue just out that examines every angle of feeding and food for your family; ; cool mom picks has a super duper mother's day guide laced with the best gifts for you and yours; and even though earth day has come and gone, kaboose.com keeps it going all year long with this great resource guide.
sticker stories was all the rage at my nephew nate's birthday party this weekend. now you know too: personalized story/sticker books for kids that let you upload photos of one main character and as many as three secondary characters, along with their names and they are all featured through the books and on the stickers. next level gifts for sure. check it out here.
this 6 year old from china is both wonderful and terrifying; the history of disco lends more than just nightclubs and djs - there was some crazy funk/dance/jazz fusion going down in the 70s including one of my favorites - KC & The Sunshine Band, click here and dig this 1974 live performance of Rock Your Baby; get schooled on the facts of life and music before it's too late.
ladies of the bld nation searching for a roll model? look no further than our good friend carla mote who, upon learning that her bag was stolen at a local bar, went on to track down the thief, teach him (and the cops) a lesson. charlie and the angels have nothing on our girl. short version here. longer (better) one here.
things were much simpler then - richard pryor shook up the world with this freestyle performance on sesame street. do you want more? make sure the kids are not listening and click here to here his r-rated rant on kids; more here.
no we're not a franchise. yes, we really are just a mom and pop company. then this other mom came from the uk and popped us into a whole new world. Naomi Timperley, took the ball and ran, and now she's all over england land with parties popping in birmingham to brighton, london to leeds and more, baby loves disco UK is starting to soar. dig me and naomi on the UK's top rated tv show the dragons den here. browse some of our uk press here. take a look at naomi looking all happy with her husband max here.
my 4 year old charlie now wants to be a professional thumb wrestler after visiting the thumb wrestling federation's official website. check out n. fuego vs. unit 196 which turns into a dance off. amazing.
kaboom is a user-generated online directory from playground-focused nonprofit that lets anyone enter, search for and rate play spaces in their community. Using the free site, parents, kids and community members in general can locate playgrounds, skate parks, sports fields and even ice rinks across North America. Some 11,800 play areas are listed on the Google Maps-based site, which can be searched by region or name; a search filter lets users focus in on specific types of parks. dig in at playspacefinder.kaboom.org
