| Baby's first journal book bound in leather | | Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:54:41 PM by Rose Martins | One of the nicest baby gifts received is a leather bound baby journal book, a record for all of your baby's firsts. It is also a place to store those otherwise forgotten memories of cute, loveable or funny things your child did as a baby.
It is a keepsake of a lifetime. It is also fun to page through the book a few years later, together with your child, reviewing and remembering that child as a baby. Another great baby gift is a story book that has been personalized to include the baby's name in the story.
Children love to hear their own name and stories that include themselves. There is no shortage of baby books available online. One can order and download baby books from a large selection of ecommerce bookshops. Parents often remember books they read (or had read to them) as a young child with very fond memories, and look to buy the same titles for their child.
It is sometimes difficult to find these titles in bookstores, especially if you immigrated to another country. Online bookshops are great in this respect. They remove borders and make these books available worldwide.
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| | | Livingston Briefs | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:47:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | A 2-year-old lawsuit between Tyrone Township and the Hartland Deerfield Fire Authority was settled Monday in negotiations facilitated by retired Judge Daniel Burress. Tyrone agreed to pay $325,000 in costs associated with withdrawing from the fire authority, with $135,000 being paid up front and the remainder paid over the next five years, according to Thomas Charboneau Jr., attorney for the authority. Tyrone sued the fire authority in spring 2005, claiming excessive costs and improper budgeting and sought dissolution of the authority and monetary damages. The settlement was "substantially less than the $1 million (the authority) wanted," said Tyrone attorney Neal Nealson. Fenton now provides fire coverage for Tyrone Township, with the exception of an area around Lake Shannon where residents made an arrangement with the fire authority.... | |
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| | | Odds and ends | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:47:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | A mother and son accused of stealing a snake from a pet store in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, were arrested when they returned to the store and asked for books on how to care for the animal, police said. Clerks recognized the suspects from surveillance video taken during the theft and stalled them until police arrived. The video showed the 15-year-old taking the 30-inch baby boa from its cage, wrapping it around his neck and hiding it with his jacket, while his mother acted as a lookout, police said. Mother and son were arrested Dec. 22. The snake, worth $300, was recovered from their home and returned to the Petland in this Cleveland suburb, police said. Sebrina Hill, 35, faces theft charges and is scheduled to appear in court next month. Her son was booked and placed in the custody of relatives, police said.... | |
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| | | A Fitting Tribute to Vikki LaMotta | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:48:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | A stunning beauty, she married Jake when she was 16 years old with a baby on the way and had two more children with him. As his wife, she saw him win the middleweight title and saw him through his subsequent self-destruction. He did not make it easy for her and beat her frequently even after she left him. Her first date after divorcing Jake in 1957 was with Johnny Carson. Her first boyfriend was mob boss Sam Giancana. She married again in 1962 to a singer named Tony Foster and had one child with him, but the marriage would not last. In the late 1970s, she worked closely with Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro in the making of Raging Bull. Not only was she trying to help them achieve accuracy, she was simply trying to keep Jake from sullying her name. After the movie was released, she posed for Playboy at the age of 51.... | |
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| | | Learn truth to overcome fear | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:48:35 AM by Blog57 Team | | Iremember going trick or treating whenever we wanted to on Halloween, rather than at a scheduled time. We stayed out for hours in order to fill our bags to the brim. Goodies included homemade taffy apples, cookies, candy and brownies along with the usual Tootsie Rolls and Baby Ruth bars. Times have changed. The world is not as safe as it was 55 years ago, and it is wise for parents and local officials to limit trick or treating. It is also sad that it must be done. Perhaps the saddest piece of this is that from the get-go our little children are necessarily being taught fearful ideas that include not speaking to strangers, not allowing anyone to touch private parts, not eating candy from a neighbor, avoiding getting too close to someone's car if they ask directions, etc.... | |
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| | | Baby Girls Tie in Symbolic Race to Be 300 Millionth American | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:47:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | America, make room for Kiyah Lanae Boyd, 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and Zoe Emille Hudson, 7 pounds, 3 ounces -- both of whom arrived Tuesday morning as instant contenders for the symbolic title of 300 millionth American. At 7:45 a.m. and about 30 seconds, the U.S. Population Clock, located at the Census Bureau's headquarters in the Washington suburb of Suitland, Md., turned from 299,999,999 to 300,000,000. Within seconds, at 7:46 a.m., Kiyah was delivered at Northside Hospital in Atlanta and Zoe came into the world at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. In Atlanta, parents Keisha and Petty Officer 1st Class Kristopher Boyd, both 28, are African-American. Dad is home on two weeks' leave from Bahrain for his daughter's birth; the family lives in Mableton, a Cobb County community just outside Atlanta.... | |
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| | | New Hampshire's Safe Haven law rarely, if ever, used | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:48:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | New Hampshire adopted a Safe Haven law in 2003 in response to a baby being abandoned behind a cottage at Hampton Beach and national focus on the problem. But the law has seldom, perhaps never, been put to the test, say state officials. The discovery of an abandoned baby in a Boston backyard this week has advocates calling for increased awareness of the Safe Haven law, which allows unwnated babies to be dropped off at a hospital, police station or fire station. Since Baby Jordan was discovered Sunday behind a house in Roslindale, Mass., Michael Morrisey of Baby Safe Haven New England is calling for a renewed effort to get the message out. Baby Jordan, who is in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Children's Hospital, was left within a couple of miles of a hospital and three police stations.... | |
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| | | PARENTING | Coping with crying | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 10:47:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Have a new baby? Advice on crying from the book How to Survive Your Baby's First Year (Hundreds of Heads Books, $12.95), from people who've done it: -"I used to pretend that a hidden camera was in the room with me and that I had to keep my cool in case they showed it on 'Oprah' or something. It forced me say to myself, 'Would I want other people to see how I am reacting right now?' " — Wendy Snyder, Westminster, Colo., mother of daughters, ages 8 and 4 -"Only two things worked. One was to put her in her car seat and drive around. The other was to take her into the laundry room and turn the clothes dryer on." — Sandi, Allentown, Pa., mother of a daughter, 11 .... | |
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| | | The Sentinel | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:47:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Gently used clothing, baby equipment, toys and books are among the items available at a fall/winter consignment sale Friday and Saturday at Empire Friendship Fire Hill, 177 Spring Road, Carlisle."Fall is nearly upon us and as we start changing our closets over for the next season it creates two issues: 1) what to do with all the clothes and toys my child has outgrown and 2) how to fill the closet with the next size without breaking the bank."Shopping and selling at consignment sales is the perfect answer," said Carla Maranto-Arnold, co-owner of Clothes the Closet Door! LLC.The children's consignment business is growing in the area and "Clothes the Closet Door! is pleased to be part of this growth," said co-owner Kathleen Schwartz. "This year over 100 consignors are registered and over 500 feet of racks will be full of clothing in sizes premie to 14/16 boys and girls and maternity."We could have a consignment sale just between the three of us," joked co-owner Amy Warren.... | |
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| | | BOOKS%%head%%NONFICTION%%endhead%%%%bodybegin%% | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:47:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | I want to eat Joe Eszterhas' children. I should add that I did not know I wanted to eat his children until I read Eszterhas' latest book, "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!" The chapter devoted to critics is titled: "They Want to Kill You, Rape Your Wife, and Eat Your Children!" And I thought I was doing so well, limiting my meals to puppies, kittens and the occasional baby seal. Crushed, over ice. But since we know from his titles, not to mention his two previous books, that everything Eszterhas writes about himself, his friends and his numerous enemies is true -- without any self-aggrandizement or hyperbole added to make the stories, or himself, sound better -- then it must be true that I want to eat his children. In that case: Could I get them with fava beans and a nice chianti, please? In "The Devil's Guide," Eszterhas pretends to do something different than he did in those two Hollywood books, "American Rhapsody" and "Hollywood Animal." He pretends to offer advice to wannabe screenwriters on how to navigate the shark-infested waters of the industry, how to write scripts as good (cough) as his own "Basic Instinct," "Jagged Edge" and "Sliver," and how to enjoy all the perks of success that he enjoyed -- at least until the day he suddenly realized that Hollywood is not a very nice place and moved his wife and four (tasty) children back to the Cleveland area.... | |
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| | | providing a safe haven | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 12:47:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | She was likely born somewhere in the Fort Wayne area two or three months ago. Maybe she came into the world with a few wisps of blond hair, maybe a head full of black, curly locks . . . Baby Girl Doe, as the legal ad that ran in The News-Sentinel a month ago called her, was the fourth baby in Allen County abandoned under Indiana's Baby Safe Haven law, which went into effect in 2000. She was left at a Fort Wayne hospital, much like three out of the four were. The fourth was left at a fire department administration building. Officials won't release any more specifics about the events. Advocates of the law – versions of which are on the books in 47 states – say even more babies could be saved from neglect, abuse or death and adopted by loving families if more people knew the law and how it works.... | |
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