The first question is this: When is Mother’s Day?!
It changes every year, it is impossible to remember but if you get it wrong you are in trouble… Well, in case you are interested, Mother’s Day is celebrated in the UK and USA at different times: In the USA Mother’s day falls on the second Sunday in May, whereas in the UK it is on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
In 2013 that means it is on the 10th March in the UK and on May 12th in the USA.
Now we come to the second question: What should I get for mothers day?!
Actually, that should be what should I get, and for who? Obviously you need to get your own mum the perfect mothers day gifts, but if you have a partner who is or is about to be a mum, you will need yet more unique mothers day gifts – especially if her kids are too little to get her something themselves.
So here are a couple of Mother’s day gift ideas to get you started:
Belkin – Chef Tablet Stand and Stylus
This very special mothers day gift is a cool and helpful tablet stand and stylus. Now you can use a recipe app without covering your iPad in flower and egg!
This is the ultimate mother’s day gift. Now you can know that your baby is safe and sound from wherever you are.
The BabyPing is viewed via an app on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and is packed with helpful features. High quality, totally invisible night vision (nothing lights up to wake up your baby) means you can see your baby clearly, day or night. Customizable cry alerts mean that you could have your phone in your pocket, be making a call or be surfing the web and it would let you know right away that your baby is crying. You can even view it from anywhere in the world, so if you are spending this valentines day at a restaurant and leaving your little one with a sitter for the first time, you could use your BabyPing to check in and make sure all is well whenever you like.
A Hot Chocolate on Mothers day? Yes please! This has proved to be one of the top mothers day gifts out there, just put in your favorite chocolate, some milk and get frothing! What a fab idea…
So there we are, some fantastic and unique mothers day gift ideas. With one of these you can’t help but be the most popular son, daughter or parent in her world!
Baby food. What a potential mine field that can be!
First comes the difficult process of weaning your little one onto solids. Then, horror of horrors, they start to reveal their opinions of what they do and don’t like…
At this point you need a whole head full of homemade baby food recipes. If the little monkey doesn’t like what you offer, you are expected to produce more and more recipes for baby foods. Not easy. Especially since, for some of us, just learning how to make baby food at all is a mission!
No, there is too much else to do than to spend hour after hour with a baby food blender coming up with ideas for baby food. What we need is someone else to do that for us…
Fortunately that is exactly what we have for you! Well, we don’t have someone who is actually going to cook the baby food for you, but they will tell you all of their baby food ideas, food ideas for toddlers and even baby shower food ideas – for free!
So here is our resource of the best baby food recipe sites out there. Don’t say we never spoil you…
Simply Baby Food Recipes
Simply Baby Food Recipes describes it’s self as a provider of “Gourmet Baby & Toddler Recipes”. And they do look good!
Weelicious, rather kindly, break their recipes up into baby food ideas, food ideas for toddlers, big kids recipes, breakfast, diary free, egg free, freeze well recipes… and more. You name it, they’ll tell you how to cook it!
Nurture baby do us the favor of breaking recipes up into their appropriatness for babies of 4-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months or 12-18 months. This beautifully laid out site has all sorts of healthy baby food ideas to keep you going!
Unlike the others, Super Healthy Kids not only provides lots of lovely baby food ideas, it also provides you with some rather helpful week long meal plans to get stuck into. It EVEN has a year long, 3 meals a day balanced meal plan for kids that you can follow. Not bad!
Since those cakes where fun, we decided it would be fun to do the opposite post – our favorite baby shower cakes! So whether you are looking for some baby shower cake ideas, some inspiration on how to make a baby shower cake or you just want to see some super pretty baby shower cake pictures, you are in the right place!
Baby Grow
The perfect baby shower cake for a boy!
Baby Cake
Sometimes it is best to just keep it simple (and cartoony!)
Beautiful Tree
We love this simple, effective design.
The Unisex Cake
This is a beautiful, classic design for a boy or a girl.
It’s a Boy!
Very sweet cake for a boy here – again, sometimes simple is best!
Lovely Lion
Add a lion to your baby shower ideas!
Lovely Lioness
The perfect baby shower cake for a girl!
Tortuous Cake
This little fella is a very unique baby shower cake, but a very sweet one too!
The Next Level Cake…
This cake is just… amazing! An Alice in Wonderland themed cake – just beautiful (don’t try this at home!)
Baby Shower Cupcake
Don’t forget the cupcakes! Some very cool cake toppers here…
A lot is made of Valentines day when you are growing up. You have to have the right restaurant booked, the right present bought, the right clothes to wear and the right things to say in order to convince your girlfriend or boyfriend that you are the only human being on the entire planet worth being with on that evening.
This is, of course, easier said than done!
However, if everything goes to plan perhaps you might find your self spending Valentines day with a baby on the way – and this is where it gets really complicated.
For men, buying Valentines day presents can be scary. For men, buying presents for the soon-to-be-mother of their baby can be terrifying. For men, having to buy a Valentines gift for your pregnant wife can be utterly petrifying. And that is why we have put together a quick list of fantastic Valentines gifts for pregnant ladies – The “What to buy a pregnant woman on valentines day” list, if you like!
An Eternity Ring
Lots of people give these rings to their wives on a specific anniversary or occasion, and what better occasion than the valentines day before your child is born! BE CAREFUL though – often a ladies fingers will swell during pregnancy, don’t go getting her a ring that will fit her in her third trimester but will fall off for the rest of her life, or at least be sure to get one that can be altered!
H. Samuel have some lovely eternity rings, as do Amazon (believe it or not!)
A Personalised Baby Blanket
Whilst not technically for her, this is a thoughtful, sweet and kind thing to get a mum-to-be. She will most likely be touched and excited to see it getting used when the baby arrives. It is easier to get right if you know what the baby will be called, or even its gender, but even if you don’t, just neutral colors (or even valentines colors!) will do fine.
It is ancient wisdom that women like handbags. Men can, therefore, play safe and ask the lady at the store for a nice handbag to give to their wife. Once a baby is in the picture however, a super stylish little handbag just isn’t feasible.
The Alkemi Ultimate Olive Mother & Baby Bag is the way forward. It is made of easy wipe material, it has LOADS of storage space (including 3 elasticated insulated bottle pockets, 2 nappy pockets and 3 inside zip pockets to keep your valuables in) and has the ability to clip to your pram! On top of all this, it actually looks rather nice too – it isn’t covered in corny “Mom’s diaper handbag” lettering or kiddy decorations - this looks like a perfectly stylish adult bag.
Ideal!
A Foot Massage
I know what you are thinking – “Not the most original suggestion. I wan’t to get her something really special that she will remember”. Before you dismiss the idea however, remember the most sore your feet have ever been after a day or two of running around, quadruple that feeling and imagine having it for months on end. Then imagine getting a foot rub.
Trust us, this will go down VERY well. You could find your local massage clinic and book her an appointment or, if you have strong hands, you could do it yourself! Here is a handy video to give you some tips:
Be careful though, research has shown that specific pressure on particular points of the ankle can induce labor! Stay away from the ankle…
A BabyPing Video Baby Monitor
The thing is, a pregnant woman has at least a billion things to be thinking about each day. Her body is going next level crazy at least 98% of the time, there is double the amount of her that here used to be and she has the most painful experience of her life looming ever closer.
Having to research and buy the perfect baby monitor is just another thing she has to do, so why not save her the hassle?
The BabyPing is viewed via an app on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and is packed with helpful features. High quality, totally invisible night vision (nothing lights up to wake up your baby) means you can see your baby clearly, day or night. Customizable cry alerts mean that you could have your phone in your pocket, be making a call or be surfing the web and it would let you know right away that your baby is crying. You can even view it from anywhere in the world, so if you are spending this valentines day at a restaurant and leaving your little one with a sitter for the first time, you could use your BabyPing to check in and make sure all is well whenever you like.
This is a sure fire way to make any new or soon-to-be parent happy!
We all know that giving your kids some coloring in to do is, sometimes, the perfect crime. They love doing it and you might get as much as 10/15 minutes peace (or longer if you are really lucky).
The only downside is this: What should they color?
You could buy a coloring book, but they aren’t cheap and, in our experience, there are usually about 5 pictures in them that kids actually want to color. If you happen to be a talented artist, you can quickly scribble out a tractor or a penguin for them, but most of us never progressed much past being able to color inside the lines! If this applies to you – don’t worry, we have the answers: welcome to the world of the online coloring book…
FreckleBox
Freckle Box have some of the most interesting designs to print off and color in for fee. These will keep you little one busy for some time!
Coloring Page Creator
Coloring Page Creator is one of the more interactive sites out there. All you have to do is upload a picture (of yourself or of SpongeBob or of what ever you like) and it will turn that picture into a black and white outline drawing, just waiting to be colored! Simply print and enjoy.
Crayola
Crayola have some lovely, if a little more simplistic images you can print and color, again for free. In fact, it is worth seeing what else Crayola have to offer, since there is a whole section dedicated to fun indoor and outdoor activities – a very useful resource for a tired parent at the weekend!
Fisher-Price
Fisher Price also offer free printable coloring pages, some of which you can help to design before you print!
Hippo Paint
Perhaps our favorite way to keep a kid entertained for a little while, however, is Hippo Paint. Type anything you like into the box (and we mean anything – jam, kittens, calculator, bacon sandwich, moose) and it will give you a bunch of options to color in online! It is super easy and very fun! We must admit, we spent a little to long “researching” this page…
Sometimes we all need a little something to help us smile; in baby Jonathan’s case all it took was hearing his mother’s voice – for the first time.
Thanks to an utterly amazing piece of technology called a cochlear implant, this 8 month old baby (who was born deaf) had his hearing literally switched on for the first time in this beautiful clip. The first sound he hears – his own mother’s voice.
It is hard to imagine a gift quite so lovely as this – what a beautiful story, what a beautiful video.
And what a privilege it is to be able to watch the moment a baby hears for the first time. If “spreading the joy” is what it is all about, the people who uploaded this video can consider the joy officially spread!
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