I was intrigued and a bit tickled when I found BabyCenter’s featured service “Booty Caller.” The booty caller allows you to input your cell phone number and it will text you a message (3 per cycle for a total of 18) to let you know that it’s time! You get a message the day before you “fertile window” opens, one during and one right before your best chances end. I laugh every time I get the text and it has helped keep me on track – so to speak.

Now – has it helped us achieve our goal? Well you’ll just have to stay tuned now won’t you? Let’s say, for now, it’s kept us “on task.”

Written by Gidge, who is a mother of a 5 year old boy and 3 year old twin boys. A transplanted Hoosier, die-hard Colts fan and professional call center manager, she likes long walks on the beach, penguins and playing ping-pong. Her turn-ons include sleep and silence. Read all about her life here.

Have you ever looked for a fun fragrance to mix things up a bit? I have two favorite perfumes, but sometimes I get tired of smelling the same day after day. I recently ran across the TokyoMilk collection of playful scents in a magazine and gave it a try. The concept is neat and they offer 18 delightful variations for around $28 a bottle.

The fragrances are mischievously named for their combination of different oils, scents and other ingredients. My favorite scent thus far is Let Them Eat Cake, which contains sugarcane, coconut milk, white musk and vanilla orchid. Adding to the fun is the unique bottles. Each features an interesting image on the inside of the label which is visible through the glass. These would make fun gifts for friends and is a must have in my own collection!

by Emily

Babies on the go, mommas on the go, and we’re using
Pampers Clean’n Go wipes. I use these things all the time. I like to be frugal, but I like to use things that are convenient. I find Pampers Clean’n Go wipes to be worth the price of not using a wash cloth because of how easy they are to use. You open the container and pull one out like in a tissue box. They are so easy to pull out my 22 month can do it all by herself.

You can use them on all parts of the body and they don’t have any kind of smell.

• Help wipe away dirt and germs
• Tear-free
• Dermatologically tested
• Made with pure water

You will find many packages of them all around my house and one in the diaper bag for on the go. I’m always wiping off playdough, food, dirt and everything the kids get into.

by Louise

I’m pleasantly surprised after reviewing the new Robeez 2008 Fall Collection of soft-soled shoes! Honestly, I’ve always stayed away from purchasing the Robeez brand because of the price and instead went for other types of soft-soled shoes. However, now that I’ve actually used them and compared them; I realize just how different the Robeez are.

I really like them a lot! They’re incredibly soft on my daughter’s feet and they don’t leave any elastic marks around her ankles (and we have had issues with this). So far I haven’t noticed the toes getting scuffed up from so much crawling either.

The selection is great, and not just for girls. It’s hard to find adorable boys shoes, but they have everything from animals, sports and music to your classic loafers and more. Of course the girls selection includes shoes with ribbons, hearts and bows. Plus they have the classic Mary Jane’s and just about everything else you’re looking for. The new fall collection is superb as there is truly something for everyone.

You can’t go wrong with soft-soled shoes. Robeez is approved by the American Podiatric Medical Association and recommended for baby feet; don’t miss out on these great shoes. I’ve certainly changed my opinion on them.

Written by Andrea, who is a stay at home Catholic wife and mother. She strives daily to perfect her vocation as wonderfully as possible. Andrea has two young children and hopes someday to have more. Her interests stem from being a mother and living her faith. She blogs for fun about things that interest her at Momma In Flip Flops.

I’m sure you have seen the infomercials about the Jack LaLanne’s Power Juicer. Slim bodies getting slimmer juicing everything from apples to zucchini! Well, I couldn’t resist. I love the taste of fresh juice and this juicer was my husband’s birthday wish!

We made fresh juice for days. Carrot, apple juice, orange pineapple, apple and celery! The possibilities were endless! The juice was indeed excellent. The pulp can be used for cakes, muffins, breads and more. My 3 year old son even drank the vegetable juices.

I was concerned at first about the cleanup, but it was a breeze. It made it much easier to clean if I did it immediately after juicing. It can be cleaned in the dishwasher or hand washed. I will definitely recommend this juicer to anyone who has a desire to juice.

by Anise

Babies on the go, momma’s on the go and we’re using Pampers Clean’n Go wipes. We use these things all the time. I like to be frugal, but I like to use things that are convenient. I find Pampers Clean’n Go wipes to be worth the price of not using a wash cloth because of how easy they are to use. You open the container and pull one out like in a tissue box. They are so easy to pull out that my 22 month can do it all by herself.

You can use them on all parts of the body and they don’t have any kind of smell.

• Help wipe away dirt and germs
• Tear-free
• Dermatologically tested
• Made with pure water

You will find many packages of them all around my house and one in the diaper bag for on the go. I’m always wiping off play dough, food, dirt, everything the kids get into. Trust me this is a must-have in your home.

by Louise

Don’t throw out leftover this Christmas. The new Ziploc Double Freezer Bags with Fresh Shield will keep cooked meals fresh for weeks to come. They seal well and hold up over time. I have always found Ziploc products to be far more durable than other leading brands when it comes freshness. This new line of freezer bags is no exception. It provides double the protection to your food. I recently found out that you can determine how long foods can be kept fresh in the fridge, freezer and on the shelf using the Shelf Life 101 tool on Ziploc’s website.

Did you know that Americans spend an average of $10.16 during each fast-food shop? (See what you can learn when you look around.) Rather than stopping for food-to-go or lunch out, why not turn leftovers into snacks you take with you on-the-go. Ziploc has a wide range of products all designed to help you and your family. This line of products in a must-have in our household.

by Emily

Visit My Pedz for other great gift ideas!

Wild Planet Hyper Dash
Hyper Dash is an award-winning fast-paced race course game from Wild Planet that encourages kids to be active and think on their feet. Designed to improve listening, coordination and math skills, this exciting game is easy to set up and is an ideal way to help kids aged six and above to practice addition and subtraction while exercising and having fun. It’s four games in one and costs around $25.

Visit Wild Planet for other great gift ideas!

Crayola Glow Board
With the Crayola Color Explosion Glow Board, kids can take their creations to a whole new level of fun. The glow board comes with six vibrant neon markers, which can be used to draw on either of the board’s two drawing surfaces. Once their drawing is complete, kids can illuminate the colored inks with the touch of a button, as the board’s lights give the ink an intense glow.

Visit Crayola for other great gift ideas!

EyeClops Bionic Eye
See your world as never before with the EyeClops Bionic Eye! With this fun and easy-to-use electric magnifier, kids six and up can view everyday objects at up to 400 times their regular size. The simple, hand-held bionic “eye” displays magnified images on any TV, providing hours of fun entertainment for the entire family. The hand-held EyeClops magnifying “eye” is made of brightly-colored, lightweight, durable plastic and features an ergonomically shaped handle that fits comfortably into small and large hands alike.

Visit Jakks for other great gift ideas!

Mozart Magic Cube
A true breakthrough in music education, the Munchkin Mozart Magic Cube will be music to your baby’s ears. Providing hours of interactive play for budding young composers of all ages, this award-winning toy is the perfect musical foundation for little ones. Fun, creative, and inspiring, the Magic Cube teaches how sounds combine to create eight Mozart masterpieces.

Visit Munchkin for other great gift ideas!

Wii Music
When it comes to music and rhythm games, Wii Music stands in a class of its own. Unlike other music games, which penalize players if they don’t play perfectly, Wii Music is a musical playground where there are no mistakes. Here anyone can pick up and master the huge array of instruments available, through simple motions like strumming and drumming. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart’s content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music.

Visit Wii for other great gift ideas!

Disney Wheel of Fortune
Disney Wheel of Fortune includes such classics as Cinderella, The Lion King, Snow White, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc. and Toy Story. It is a combination of two all-time family favorites. Combine the puzzle-solving fun of Wheel of Fortune with the magic of Disney-Pixar movies and you get a game that’s entertaining for the whole family. Spin the Mickey Mouse wheel, and then ask for a letter to the puzzle. Categories include: Heroes and Heroines, Villains, Movie Titles, Song Titles and more. All this family fun for under $25.

Visit Pressman for other great gift ideas!

Zero Gravity Air Hogs
The ultimate in indoor RC racing! Zero Gravity Micro is a full function RC car that drives on the floor, up wall, sand, even upside-down. Outstanding scale speed performance on any smooth surface. Working headlights also act as charge level indicators. 2 power settings – floor mode with venturi fan off, and suction mode for vertical and upside-down action! (Prices vary by models.)

Visit Spin Master for other great gift ideas!

You’ve Been Slimed!

Now kids at home can take part in the in the fun with the introduction of Nickelodeon’s first line of SLIME products! These safe, non-toxic, washable and water-soluble toys will be one of the hottest toys in 2009 and you can give them this Christmas and be a bigger hit. Some of the new products include: the Super Slimer that shoots 25 feet, the Slime Ball that hits a wall and oozes down, cans of Slime in six different colors and a Slime Bucket of course to hold all the gross stuff.

Visit Nickelodeon for other great gift ideas!

Goldilocks & the 3 Bears Show DVD

Get ready for a very good time as Unstable Fables presents The Goldilocks & the 3 Bears Show. When Goldilocks, a sassy reality TV star decides to film her next show at the humble home of the Bears, she gives them a taste of the celebrity sweet life they’ve never had before. But the bears will teach her something even more important: what it’s like to be part of a family. Tune in for all the fairytale action in this funny, heartwarming movie, featuring the voice talents of Tom Arnold, Brooke Shields and Jamie Lynn Spears. It’s just right for a night of family fun!

Visit Disney for other great gift ideas!

Imagine my disappointment when two days later Target randomly canceled the order. Apparently they made a pricing mistake. While pricing mistakes are bound to happen I find this particular situation hard to believe since the item was listed at $42.99 for 3 days before the error was supposedly “discovered.” Amazon.com also offered these seats on behalf of Target and honored the advertised price, shipped the merchandise and kept their customers loyal.

Instead of offering a good will coupon for a future car seat purchase or a discount on the Britax Marathons, or even a small gift card to use on an in store purchase, Target is just pretending the transaction did not happen at all. No accountability, no sense of a “make good” or genuine concern that they disappointed their loyal shoppers. From a business standpoint Target has a lot to learn!

Written by Helene, who is a “fly by the seat of her pants” mom with 6 kids, well really 7 if you count her husband. She is a die-hard bargain shopper, designer-clad domestic diva who writes reviews to maintain a sense of sanity and unleash her creative side. You can also keep up with their busy family at their blog.

After trying to determine if I should purchase a stationary walker or a doorway jumper for my son, I came across the Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo. I read the reviews and decided to purchase it. I can honestly say this was a wonderful investment. It combined my son’s two most favorite things, jumping and playing! My son started using it when he was 4 months old and he has been jumping faithfully for 4 months! He absolutely loves it. There are many colorful toys surrounding his seat that he can play with.

The Jumperoo adjusts to 3 different levels, so it grows with him. I don’t know what we are going to do when he outgrows it! It is very stable so I don’t have to worry about it tipping over or him falling as with some of the doorway jumpers. The cost is between $69.00-$89.00, but it is well worth the money spent!

by Anise

I’ve never been a big popcorn eater until I found Dale & Thomas. I reviewed some of their delicious goodness a while back on Props & Pans, but now I’ve discovered a new product by them totally by accident. Dale & Thomas usually only sell their gourmet popcorn online or through their own stores, so I was shocked to find that the bag called Popcorn, Indiana that I’ve been enjoying was made through them.

I purchased the large red bag of Aged White Cheddar at Bed, Bath & Beyond for under $4 and it didn’t last long in our house. Turns out this popcorn is distributed by Dale & Thomas, but actually is grown in a little town called Popcorn, Indiana. It is approximately 20 miles southwest of Bloomington (Hoosier basketball country) on a farm. We actually live in Southern Indiana, so I hope someday we can visit this small town.

They use all-natural ingredients and lots of rich flavors that make your mouth water with one bite. I’m excited I can purchase this popcorn in a retail store close to home. We plan to get several bags and give them as gifts this Christmas. Who doesn’t like popcorn?

by Emily

Smart Baby Kid, also a product and resource review blog, focuses specifically on educational toys, games, websites, books, DVD’s and much more. With a PhD in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Language and Literacy, and over ten years experience as an educator, Smart Baby’s editor, Dr. Cecelia Mecca, utilizes her expertise to help families find the best education products.

Ask Baby Kid, grew out of an overwhelming response from Cool Baby Kid readers for more information. In order to keep Cool Baby Kid’s focus on reviews, Ask Baby Kid allows readers to ask questions about parenting and blogging, and receive quick answers they actually have time to read. After receiving many questions about specific posts on the original blog as to how to pack and travel overseas with kids or how to start and maintain a blog, Cecelia wanted to give readers a forum to have their questions answered.

Go check out each of these cool sites. I’m certain there is something for everyone.

Written by Emily, who is a married working mother of a very energetic 6 year old son. They recently moved out in the country and live on a rock road. Emily had to give up high-speed internet and she blames the realtor for not informing her ahead of time that it was not available. She writes at her personal blog, Fenicle and loves to review new things.

I hate buying baby shoes. There, I admitted it. They never fit the way they should. Lets face it, most kids have anatomically weird feet. They are either way wide, very thick or abnormally small, or a combination of the three. My kid has thick and small feet, so when Stride Rite sent me a pair of Natural Motion Walkers to review, I was skeptical. The only shoes I have ever really loved before were the soft sole ones that stayed on with elastic, and these shoes had leather sides, rubber soles and a tongue. There was no way they were going on, or if they did go on they would fall off right away.

I could not have been more wrong. These shoes have the widest opening for a foot I have ever seen. They are incredibly easy to put on, even when your baby is less than thrilled with being laid down to have shoes put on. Even more miraculous, they don’t fall off. Period. And the rubber on the soles is so flexible that it’s like having suede sole shoes. My son will wear them all day, can’t take them off, doesn’t pull on them and they really seem to help out in his daily endeavor to learn to walk. I am overjoyed with their performance, and the fact that they are some of the cutest shoes I have ever seen only adds to my immense satisfaction with this product.

If all that were not enough, they have fantastic customer service. I was initially sent the wrong size and one simple phone call remedied the problem and my new pair arrived post haste. Stride Rite, I’ll be coming back and bringing some friends.

by Andi

I’ve pretty much always been a fan of Stride Rite shoes since my son started wearing them a couple years back. They were the only brand I could find that carried xxw that fit great. I was excited to get the chance to try the Natural Motion Walkers from Stride Rite for my 14-month-old daughter who is just starting to walk.

I don’t think that these shoes help your child learn to walk that well. They have great skid protection on the bottom, but because of this my daughter seemed to get them caught easily since she doesn’t pick her feet up perfectly yet and discouraged her from continuing to try. They are also a bit heavy on her feet making it harder to get around with her just learning to walk. I found that when she wore these she definitely would try to crawl to get where she wanted to go or would easily take them off with the Velcro.

I think these shoes would be great for a child that is still a beginning walker but has already learned the ropes of balancing and getting around that way. However, for a child that still wants to crawl with a few steps here or there, it’s better to go with something lighter like a soft-soled shoe.

by Andrea

The drop cup openings make it easy to nurse anytime and anywhere. As a mommy still trying to get back into shape 9 months after giving birth, I know it’s not my breast I’m worried about exposing while nursing in public; it’s my belly. This is why I love nursing camisoles.

Granted, as a woman with rather large breasts, the nursing camisole isn’t the most flattering undergarment. It leaves me a little droopy. Let’s be honest. It gives me a big droopy uniboob. However, it is comfortable. I have support, just not the same kind of support I was used to before I became more focused on breastfeeding than I was on cleavage. This isn’t a complaint. It is just a fact.

I do wish that the sizing information available associated the Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large sizing, with the appropriate cup size. I was given a Large to try and I think that an Extra Large would have been more comforatable for me. Still, I use it and enjoy it.

The fabric is just divine. I wish all my clothes were made from this fabric. The camisole is also extra long. My biggest complaint about camisoles, and I wear a lot of camisoles, is that they are too short. I want for my camisole to be a little longer than the shirt I am wearing (remember hiding the belly), and the Medela camisole is just that. It is the perfect length.

It’s no surprise that Medela would get a prop for their new nursing tank. They are the experts, after all.

Written by Marty, who also blogs at Triangle Mamas. She wrote this post one handed while nursing her son Christopher.