My little nephew turns 1 this week and we were going to have a birthday party tonight, but it got postponed because his older sister came down with a stomach flu.  Good news for me because I needed a little extra time to go shopping for him.  Now that he's one, I have to get him a gift that he'll actually like.  When he was born, we gave them some great aden and anais swaddling blankets, which his mom has simply raved about.  She wasn't sure about them at first, but said he slept a solid 6-7 hours after she used them.  So, with the blankets out of the picture, I'm thinking toys.  I'm not quite sure he's old enough for Ben 10 toys like his older brother.  Those are still a few years off, that is if Heatblast…

I feel like I need an immediate follow up of that last post.  It's too long to rewrite entirely but I feel like it was a bad note to get off on.  To make it clear I LOVE LITTLE KIDS.  I was just a little upset about the marketing that I can see is already consuming them.  While I prefer subbing high school because it gives me the free time to do stuff like blog, I can't help but admit I also love reading curious george books to little kids.

When I was in the other day they were actially having a pirate birthday party for one of the kids.  I remember the days and it was nice when you could take a couple of hours out of the school day to have an extra long recess and eat cake and play games inside for someone's birthday.  The little…