Thingamababy

My Valentine’s Day Gift

AJ — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:10:55 +0000

This year I’m not overcompensating with a dozen roses or giving a poetic single rose. My wife is getting a single bottle of Sweet Blossom soda made with rose petals. Unfortunately, a 12-hour drive to Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles isn’t feasible at the present time, so I ordered the bottle from Galco’s [...]

Toy Review: Junior Superstar Mic

AJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:33:24 +0000

As the father of a daughter, I despise girl-branded toy karaoke machines and all manner of toddler glitter pop performer toys. My wife brought home a couple toy microphones last week, blue and green, devoid of any labels or visual clues as to whether they should be played with by a boy or girl. I was prepared [...]

Our Super Bowl Sunday

AJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:52:34 +0000

I received my Super Bowl dose picking up a pizza at a pizza parlor Sunday evening. I’d brought a newspaper to read during my wait, but got the distinct impression a drunk patron was going to take offense at my reading during his time of inflated excitement. Later, I tried explaining the special day to my [...]

Haha, laugh at the dad

AJ — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:15:23 +0000

Sorry, it’s a Wal-Mart commercial. Double sorry if it’s old news. It seems new if you’re among the 1% of the population that doesn’t have a Wal-Mart in your TV viewing area. In other news, yeah, a couple video posts and a car diaper pad — busy week for me.

Embrace Life

AJ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:41:26 +0000

The Perfect Car-Based Diaper Changing Station

AJ — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:28:36 +0000

This is a question more than a declaration. If you designed a product to assist with changing diapers in a vehicle, what features would it have? My inspiration for the question came from seeing the Dipe-N-Go website, a product from another mom-inventor. This mom rightly recognized that it’s usually a lot easier to change a diaper in [...]

22-month speech update

AJ — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:34:24 +0000

A lot has happened, and not happened, in the past month. To recap, our 22-month-old son isn’t talking. We’re still waiting. Insurance doesn’t cover developmental delays, but our state has a network of regional offices that will help any parent with these issues through age 3. Great, right? Two specialists assessed our son. The office held a [...]

Drieyes: no-tears bath solution

AJ — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:08:37 +0000

Drieyes is a bug-eyed alien mask for bathtime fun. No, wait, it’s a peculiar looking shower visor for keeping water out of your child’s eyes when you rinse his hair. Unlike other rinsing solutions, this one your child holds up to his face on his own, gripping the visor’s eyeball stalks. It’s not held on by any [...]

Gadget for breastfeeding with big breasts

AJ — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:03:24 +0000

The Booby Booster is a breastfeeding aid for women with large breasts. A hammock. A platform. A breast nest. A bada-bing sling. The big idea of this invention is that if you have big boobs, it’s a pain in the wrist to hold those things for so long so frequently throughout the day every day for [...]

Your take? The Belkiz Feedaway

AJ — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:16:55 +0000

Belkiz Feedaway is an Aussie-built cardboard feeding chair. It’s composed of recycled cardboard, is decorated with water-based inks and is covered with a nontoxic food-grade coating so that spills wipe off. Supporting up to 44lbs, a three-point polypropylene safety buckle and webbing hold your kid in place. Assembled, the chair stands almost 25 inches tall with a 24 [...]