Decoding The Perfect Infant Gift Set Without Crashing Your System
I'm currently staring at a miniature denim jacket that features six fully functional, incredibly stiff metal buttons. My son is eleven months old now, but when he was a newborn, someone handed us a beautifully wrapped box containing this rigid...
The Chili's Parking Lot Blowout: A Real Guide to Baby T-Shirts
I was sitting in the driver's seat of my Honda CR-V in a Chili's parking lot, staring at my four-month-old firstborn, Carter, and seriously contemplating just leaving my favorite diaper bag in the car and walking home. It was 98...
Hunting Down The Discontinued Baby Jogger Vue: A Dad's Reality
I'm currently crouched behind a faux-reclaimed wood table at a Portland coffee shop, obsessively refreshing Facebook Marketplace on my phone while my 11-month-old attempts to deep-throat a cork coaster. Before I became a dad, my entire philosophy on gear was...
Surviving cold nights: winter sleeping bag for newborn babies
It was two in the morning during that freak Texas freeze a few years back, and I was standing over my oldest son Jackson’s bassinet with my bare hand hovering an inch from his nose, just praying to feel a...
The Baby Sweater Survival Guide: How Not to Overcook Your Child
"Put a hat on her, she’s losing heat!" shouted an elderly woman at the bus stop, gesturing wildly at Maya (who was currently sweating through her vest and trying to eat a discarded bus ticket). Ten minutes later, a bloke...
The babyzimmer ausstattung myth: Building a nursery that works
I was sitting on the floor surrounded by thirty-four identical pieces of Scandinavian engineered wood, staring at an Allen key that had already stripped two vital screws, when the true absurdity of outfitting a room for an infant finally hit...
The Biggest Myth About Your Infant Long Sleeve Shirt
So there I was, sweating through a completely inappropriate gray heather t-shirt on a park bench in mid-July. I had my third iced coffee of the day sweating right along with me in the cup holder of the stroller. Leo...
Angebote Kinderwagen: A Tech Dad's Guide to Debugging Baby Transport
"Don't spend more than $200, they just poop in it anyway," my brother-in-law told me over a hazy IPA at a brewery in the Pearl District, gesturing vaguely at his toddler who was currently eating a coaster. Literally the next...
My Bamby Baby Store Wake-Up Call: Why I Stopped Hacking Gear
I was wedged upside down in the backseat of my Subaru Outback, rain streaking the windows, sweating through a t-shirt in forty-degree Portland weather. My phone was propped precariously on the center console, playing a grainy YouTube tutorial at 1.5x...