Dream dollhouse for a modern family

We are ridiculously in love with this gorgeous mid-century dollhouse from  Brinca Dada called Emerson.  Because every awesome house should be named, you know. A second bit of coolness is their gorgeously designed modern furniture that perfectly complements each of the house’s 7 rooms.  Oh mah gah.  If we were ...

Flowers from daddy

The girls in our house are spoiled by our main squeeze, Adam / daddy.  This year’s Valentine’s Day brought special flowers for both of us – hand selected and put together just for us. Ella was clearly as enamored as I was  Love seeing that chica enjoy her toddler Fisher-Price ...

The wolf pack heads to Great Wolf Lodge

We spent last weekend at Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park in the lovely Grapevine, TX.  The lodge’s PR team invited us out to check out their digs – which was pretty swell as we certainly didn’t have this on our weekend adventure list as of yet. Ella had ...

Rawkiddo? Uncooking for healthy shorties

We’ve been getting excited about raw foods and ‘un-cooking’ for a while now, but have yet to master it period… let alone for Ella’s diet.  Un-cooking is one of those kitchen mindsets that has taken me a while to conquer, so I soak up every single bit of inspiration and ...

Ella’s runway debut :)

A few weeks ago, Ella and I were in a Sama Baby Organics fashion show at New Living here in Houston for the Sprout Day event. We had fun, Ella was a champ and wore a cute outfit, we drank AMAZING Italian Wedding Cake soda from the always-hip OpMom and ...

Is Ella a wood nymph?

 Although certainly too dark and mature to collect for the Bunn, Mark Ryden's work is devastatingly haunting and beautiful.  This image of his Maple Tree Nymph painting reminds me so much of the shortie (see here — and here). If his work looks familiar to you, that's because you've probably ...

Hydraheart shoes – handmade loving for your shortie’s toes

Loving these handmade keyhole flats for the kiddos – sweet and simple design and all Vegan to boot.  Best of all (and yes, you can totally roll your eyes on this one), you can get matching shoes for Mama too.  I'm totally down. 

Coupon time! Mom Made Meals from Target

It's nice to have healthy meals/snacks in the freezer for those 'argh, do I REALLY have to cook tonight??' evenings — and Mom Made Meals is the perfect organic answer to that question.  Organic vegetarian awesomeness for your hungry kiddo's tummy in less time than it takes to zip through ...

Embroidered happiness

Here’s a sweet little girlie embroidery pattern from ninimakes to make a pillow out of or adorn a summer-y onesie.  Leave a comment about how you would use this pattern and Nini will email you a PDF pattern.  I’ve been excited about embroidery projects (with many thanks to the fabulous ...

Essentials for veggie kids and their familias

tomato family Originally uploaded by herr_hartmann. Holy Moses… for once there’s actually a useful and non ‘you really need to feed your kid milk’ article on a mainstream site for parents raising veggie kids. Check out this Pampers vegetarian kiddo nutrition page – it’s really quite good. Okay, I know ...