While I think it's kinda weird to dress your kids like mini-me ALL the time … sometimes it's super cute. My husband and my daughter own matching orange crinolines, for instance.

This in mind, I bring you Supersweet Creations and their cute matching tie shirts. While the picture is of Dad and son (a hottie dad, at that!), I see no reason why Mom and spawn couldn't wear the tie shirts and look cute, too.

While were staying gender unbiased, lets also check out these cool retro apron sets for kid-and-parent cooking adventures from  Aprilforshee!

And as long as your still here, go look at the matching tutu set offered at TheGirlyPlace.

A couple months into my pregnancy, my mom gave me and Andreas a gift certificate for 12 hours of private Hypnobirthing training with a certified instructor. The initial lessons were challenging, not because the practice itself was all that difficult (both Dre and I have had lots of exposure to and belief in focused breathing exercises, guided meditation, etc) but because the program felt, well, sort of silly…

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I'm a recent follower and avid reader of Holly Neufeld's craft-tacular family blog, {creat*loves}, and when I saw this DIY Baby Mobile tutorial go up I immediately contacted her about letting us borrow it to share it with you awesome folks!

This tutorial is actually ultra simple and uses just a few inexpensive crafting supplies that you may already have laying around: felt, buttons, embroidery hoops, yarn, needle and thread. And don't stop at flowers… think of spaceship shapes, circles and triangles, bugs and birds, monsters, jungle animals. There are just SO MANY possibilities!

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Congrats to Jess, who left comment #129 on the Glittersniffer giveaway! Jess, check your email.

For the rest of you, although I only had one pack of sparkly eye dust to give away, Glittersniffer's Etsy store is STUFFED with colors (she's introduced some new ones just in the last week!) and she's got a great package where you can order 6 colors for only $25 — which gets 'em down to about $4.50/pot. (I know what I'm doing this afternoon…)

Tell Lela Offbeat Mama sencha — now go git glittery!

Jenah Crump Photography

Last Friday, while at drop-in gymnastics, Oliver and I had stopped at the water fountain to get a much-needed drink of water. (I am aware that any germ haters in the audience are starting to get a little squirmy here). After Oliver was done his drink, I found myself starting into the face of a (really cute) silent little urchin (we'll call him Timmy), who seemed to be indicating that he needed me to hold the fountain button for him. So I asked Timmy (the little imp) if this was indeed the case. Timmy nodded so dramatically that I thought he must be dying of thirst. I started to hold the button down.

Just as little Timmy was bowing his head to drink, I hear from behind me a loud and (I'm not even exaggerating here) prolonged:

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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