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Beef curry! BQ: I don't know if it's really considered "take away," but my favorite is Jamba.

As I watched my 3 year old pedal around the thrift store on a little pink Dora bike he found, I wondered if it would be better for little boys to learn to ride a bike on a girls bike since it has a lower cross bar. In theory, shouldn't that make them a whole lot less likely to hurt their...

Do you have the option of hanging your mobile of choice from the ceiling above Baby's bed? Another option could be to just use the bed as a place for Baby to sleep, in which case he won't really need something to look at since he won't be spending much awake time there.

We're wanting to go out camping tonight, but the temperatures are supposed to drop down to abut 27F just before sunrise (it's about 52F now at 4pm). Our sleeping bags are only rated for 40F, but could we add some extra blankets and keep the fire with some hot coals and sleep comfortably?

I just make cookies with my 2 year old and we both ate some of the left over dough. I know about the salmonella risk (about 1 in 20,000 eggs has salmonella), but we still dug in anyway. We made a small batch of cookies with only one egg in the dough. Does the raw-egg-salmonella worry you to...

We get to spend a night tent camping with our 2 year old in a couple of weeks, and we're all really excited. He has seen our tent and really enjoys playing in it and understands it's so we can sleep in when we go camping. He also knows how to unzip the door. Should I worry about him waking up...

Ummm... for me, I would take enough for 4 days (how many that would be for your baby). This leaves room for diarrhea (gross, I know), and anything that might make you be out longer than you planned. I know that it's easy to be over prepared, but it would suck to have just enough diapers, and...