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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008

Weekly Check-Up: Laugh Your Yoga Off

laughing monkey poseI swear every day a new kind of yoga is created by someone. Guess one growing trend is laughter yoga, where you, you know, laugh as part of the practice. "'Kids laugh about 400 times a day, and adults only about 15,' notes Barb Fisher, a certified laughter yoga leader..." Yes, you can get certified to teach people how to giggle in a healing way, and once again, children hold the answers. Oh, help me see the world through the eyes of a child. Hey, if you aren't a class kind of person, may I suggest you read my stuff, cuz I guarantee to make you laugh as much as your average kid or I'll give you your money back.

I know I'm far too curmudgeonly for my own good, and why I'm picking on yoga with all the injustice in the world is beyond me, but how come we have to take special classes to laugh? And why do we have to sell it by pumpimg up the health benefits of laughing? (Which include, by the way, stress relief, muscle toning, and, um, help with digestion and constipation. See? Just thinking about constipation made me giggle right there.) I swear, soon we'll have to have special crapping yoga to keep us regular and cuddling yoga so the people in our lives feel loved. Anyhow, perhaps these classes are totally awesome and soon when celebrities are asked how they stay so thin, they'll swear it's the laughter yoga that gave 'em the six-pack abs. But we'll all know the truth: It was totally my writing that did it.  

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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

Oops! Natasha Richardson Wardrobe Malfunction

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Well, at least she's wearing underwear...Natasha Richardson showed a little more skin than she would have liked at the Met Costume Institute Gala earlier this week.  While walking with Tom Ford, the actress hiked up her dress a little too high and - voila - a wardrobe malfunction was born.

Unfortunately Richardson's husband Liam Neeson and sons Michael and Daniel weren't around to throw a coat over mom before the paparazzi got a shot.

But hey - this happens to all of us.  I once walked out of the bathroom at Starbucks with some toilet paper stuck to my pant leg.  Of course, there was only some homeless guy looking at me, and not the Beckhams or the Cruises. 

 

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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

Spit Up: Twin/Triplet “Can Can” Crib



Flowers, feathers, swags, and bows, it’s hard to know what to look at first. This crazy crib is like a Burlesque show gone baby. The idea of a twin or triplet crib fascinates me, although I think most nurseries would need a couple of walls blown out to fit this bad boy.

Now, I’m not the mother of multiples (God bless those who are, because one is all I can handle these days) but I would guess that anything that simplifies daily life would be worth the investment. Does it make sense to have a crib like this? Maybe that’s a question I’ll put out there. Moms of twins and triplets, how did you handle the crib situation? Despite being a design disaster, with a shocking $3,400 price tag for the triplet version and $2,199 for the twin, I don’t think the Duetta Crib Mate is a viable option for most parents of multiples, unless you’re JLo and Marc Anthony.

Posted by Lisa Mulcahy | Comments (0)


FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008

Last Day To Get Tori Spelling's Baby Stuff

Like Fame Crawler told you over a week ago (and we mentioned here on Droolicious), the Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down auction is going on, and you've less than a day to bid on all kinds of used baby stuff from celebrities. Of course all the money goes to charity, but is a diaper bag really worth over $500 - even if Donna Martin used it first? 

More info on what else is being sold after the jump.

There are eight items in the auction, all from celebrity moms except Matt Damon, who is offering a diaper bag. (Apparently it's not good enough that Matt Damon is a dad. Unlike the celebrity moms, someone decided they needed to include his wife Lucy's name in the auction too. But I digress...).

In my opinion the best item up for bids is the Stokke Tripp Trapp chair from Julianne Moore, but you can also bid on car seats from Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Elisabeth Rohm, a high chair from Poppy Montgomery and "baby gift ideas" from Jeri Ryan. It's too bad I'm not a celebrity - I've got a closet full of unused baby gifts too.

Check out the Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down Auction at eBay.

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Personal Blogs

Wednesday, May 7, 9:07 PM

The Haight Street Urine Carwash.

Monday morning came like an unwanted solicitor on the front porch.  I was exhausted  from the busy weekend, but still wanted to do something special with GiGi before we left the tall, tall buildings and traveled back through towns with two ...read more

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Friday, May 9, 6:00 AM

Cry Baby

  Crying.       I hate to cry.       Hate.   My son cries at the drop of a hat.  Periodically I notice tears on his face and remember that just 30 seconds ago he was trying to tell me something, ...read more

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Thursday, May 8, 2:40 PM

Happy Mother's Day to Me

I just found myself giving the finger to the TV set.  CNN was on with some story about how a great Mother's Day gift would be to give your mom a checkup at the doctor.  After all, they said, mothers do everything around the house so when ...read more

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Wednesday, May 7, 9:13 AM

The Bear Baby of P-Town

A report from our adventures on (and getting to and from) the Cape:  we survived, though we crawled in to bed late Monday night feeling like we'd gone ten rounds in a very small boxing ring with a pack of hungry, ferocious badgers.  ...read more

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Wednesday, May 7, 7:50 PM

Regression

We were doing so well with the whole pacifier weaning thing. Really, we were.   We started using the things with the girls at an early age, following the 5 "S"s school of self-soothing: suck (that's the pacifier), swaddle, shush....um...shit. ...read more

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Thursday, May 8, 3:27 PM

On the Eve of Knowing

I'm closing in on nineteen-weeks pregnant which means, tomorrow, during my ultrasound I will most likely find out the sex of my baby. I am not one for surprises. I have no patience in this life and can't help but obsess over ALL of life's ...read more

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Tuesday, May 6, 8:43 AM

Simultaneous Singing and Pumping

 We made a music video in Brooklyn this weekend and we had the baby with us.  She was really amazing;  she didn't take any real naps but didn't complain either.The only obstacle that we faced was how to feed her once I was ...read more

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Thursday, May 8, 9:33 PM

Total Balls

Is the title of this post perhaps about Hugo's early intervention assessment?  No, not really.  I'll tell the whole early intervention story soon, but the long and short of it is that:#1 I liked the women who showed up this morning much ...read more