Obviously I have a Girl Crush

I could not resist posting this photo from today's NY Times.  Good gracious, I love MIA.

Add This To The Pantheon of Simple but Great Ideas That I Wish I Had Thought Of

Check out this awesome project documenting little Gavin's first year, as described by his mom, Traci on her blog:  

These photos represent each day of Gavin's first year of life - 367 to be exact since 2008 was a leap year and his first birthday is included as well. Not long before Gavin was born, I got the crazy idea of taking Gavin's photo every day of his first year. Wouldn't it be neat, I thought, to be able to someday show Gavin a photo from each day during his most formative year. Never again in our lives do we develop and grow so much in just one year so this seemed to be the perfect way to capture the changes.

Now isn't that genius?  I know we all document the heck out of our children's lives, but I just love the extra twist of formality -- the conscious creation of a visual calendar of development.  Plus, the final result looks so cool!  Click here to see another version of the Gavin photo project, presented as an actual calendar.  Via Ohdeedoh.

Celebrity Babywearer of the Day: Gwen Stefani Rocks the Sling

Via Jezebel.

Missing Dada

Transcript of a conversation between me and the Kiddo, about five minutes ago:

Me:  Let's make soup for dinner!  Wouldn't that be good?

Kiddo:  No.

Me:  Really?  What DO you want for dinner?

Kiddo:  Dada.

Note:  We just saw Dad a few hours ago, before he left for work, but sometimes we just miss him like woah.

Applesauce Muffins

Yesterday afternoon, while it snowed outside, the Kiddo and I decided to fight off the cabin-fever-blues by baking a batch of applesauce muffins.  It was really fun, and the results were way yummy!

I Lego NY

Artist Christopher Niemann created these genius representations of life in New York City using Legos!  The ones shown below are my favorites.  See more here.  Via Notcot.

Erykah Badu's Twitter Homebirth

Erykah Badu's official website is reporting that the recording artist welcomed a baby daughter into the world yesterday (Sunday, February 1) with a midwife-attended home birth in Brooklyn.

Badu and her boyfriend, Jay Electronica took turns twittering the news as the birth unfolded. 

To start things off, Badu tweeted, "Morning, I'm in labor."

At one point, the excited papa tweeted, “My daughter is ready. Labor has begun. Everybody stand back. No hospitals. No doctors. No medicine. We’re waiting on midwife to show up.”  

Erykah’s 4 ½-year-old daughter Puma Rose was also present, as Jay went on to tweet, “I’m doing foot squeezes and foot rubs when the contractions hit. Puma is rubbing her hands.”  According to MTV.com, Electronica even typed updates about Badu's water breaking, how far along she was dilated and when she started pushing. "I see the head, full of hair," he wrote. Just over 20 minutes later, Badu gave birth.

This is Badu's third child, and Electronica's first.