Thanks to Team Mom, I have been introduced to Babyphotographers.com which is a great resource for parents looking for information on baby photography. You can find detailed profiles for local photographers that are interested in photograping your child. It definitely helps to see some of their example work to get a great feel on how some of your results may turn out. We were definitely happy with our results when we went to a professional over just going to somewhere similar to Sears or JCPenney.

Babyphotographers.com also features articles to educate and inform parents about great topics like "Photographers Top Secret Tips to Make Every Photo Session Successful."

Babyphotographers.com has also launched the "Smile Baby" contest where you have a chance to win $2,000 in free baby photography. A grin, a giggle, even a smirk - we all love to see babies smile. But how do you get YOUR baby to beam? Babyphotographers.com wants to know the lengths you will go to make your baby smile, and we are giving away big prizes! Enter the brand new "How Do You Get YOUR Baby to Smile?" sweepstakes and you can win a $2,000 gift certificate for a photo session with the Babyphotographers.com photographer of your choice. For more information and to enter, visit: http://www.babyphotographers.com/content/contest.html

We are a family of Fisher Price Little People toys. I remember as a kid playing with ours so we definitely were interested in buying them when we had our own kids. A new competitor has come in to the ring however. Welcome to Pop On Pals. These toys are down right neat. They include pals, pets, vehicles and play sets. The "Popabilities" are endless because you can mix and match everything, so a princess can turn into a baker or even a puppy can turn into ballerina.

We received a set recently, courtesy of Team Mom, and the kids were instantly interested. We busted open the box and the kids went on to play with it for a peaceful, quiet and extended period of time. They were psyched.

With the Holiday season quickly approaching, I think I can safely say that these toys will be hot items.

Admit it, you have heard of Vistaprint.com. Maybe you have seen the free offers for their business cards, photo books or other goods. I have even seen it on the backs of the business cards that I occasionally get from trade shows. They are everywhere. That is because they do so well at what they do. Vistaprint also offers such great products as Birthday Invitations, Custom T-shirts, and Personalized Mugs.

I have been given the opportunity via TeamMom.com to offer a great freebie. Vistaprint.com is offering an opportunity for you to win a personalized 12x12 photo book! You will be able to choose from a hard cover, leather cover or even linen. Including 26 pages and a variety of layout and design options; it even comes with free shipping! This giveaway is an amazing $50 value!

To enter yourself into the giveaway, simply leave a comment! I will close this giveaway at 11:59pm on Friday the 7th.

Congratulations to commenter #10, Sandra29. You have won this giveaway. I will be in contact with you to get you all taken care of. Thank you everyone for participating.

On this day 5 years ago... I posted and commented on our first ultrasound for Rylan. It has been a long time now posting near daily on this blog. A total of 939 blog posts. As recent months have shown, it has become more and more difficult to find words to continue at full steam. The parent blogosphere has increased a million times over and this once popular daddy blog has been looked over, which is fine. We have all benefited from this website as companies have been generous enough to allow us to review products and giveaway more. The kids have earned money into their savings account by the minimal advertising that I show. Visitors have learned things about our family, parenting, food allergies and quite possibly the most important thing, how to get rid of soap suds in the dishwasher. I have changed the look of the website many of times and realized after the last change that my wife is best at choosing the colors.

I will continue to post the occasional family photo and rather than try to think about what to write about the following day, I will focus on what we are doing and enjoy it without distraction. If you are in fact family and would like to continue hearing about what is going on in our life, please find us on Facebook. For the rest of the visitors, I encourage you to look around in the five years of archives. There is a lot of information to scour through. Some interesting and others not. I know that we will certainly reference back to the archive at times in hope of recouping those foggy memories.

While everyone else has been watching the Olympics, we have been sampling the new Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max. As I previously mentioned, Pampers provided some of the Olympic athletes families with these same diapers.

We received our sample pack of them last week and immediately put one on Kaitlyn. First impression is good. They are so thin that it makes you wonder just how well they are going to work. Kaitlyn enjoyed putting her pants on afterwards and we noticed that you no longer experience the diaper bulge that is typical while wearing diapers. She was able to move around easily with them and she seemed to like them a lot.

As the pack was being used we experienced one minor leak. These diapers do start out as the thinnest diapers I have seen but as wetness is introduced, they blimp up. They blimp up like crazy. I cannot be certain but I am pretty sure that Kaitlyn is not drinking any more water than normal which would cause these diapers to swell up as they do. Moisture or not, these diapers did not cause any diaper rash so that was definitely a good thing.

All in all, I would suggest these diapers for any type of travel. These diapers are easily equal to two Pampers diapers to the thickness of 1 normal diaper. I imagine they would be appreciated in a diaper bag. Speaking of diaper bag, today I am opening a giveaway for a pack of these Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max and a Liz Lange Diaper Clutch. This giveaway is open until 11:59pm PST on March 9th. To enter, just leave a comment.

Thanks everyone for participating!

Psst. The winter Olympics will be starting soon and Pampers is taking advantage of it by offering free samples. They are offering a sample three-pack of Pamper Cruisers with Dry Max on their website Pampers.com. These are the same diapers that are going to the Olympics on the small children of the USA athletes. They help lock wetness away for up to 12 hours which is said to be their driest diaper ever. These diapers go officially on the shelves in March so take advantage of these freebies by checking out Pampers.com. Definitely sounds like a gold winning freebie to me.

Here is a picture of Kaitlyn showing off a dress that her mom recently finished sewing. She is a great model.