7 Tips for Starting Solids

Feeding baby food to your growing child is a landmark milestone. Check out these tips, advice, and nutritional guidelines before you start.

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Happy Chinese New Year

And nothing says Chinese New Year like a giant, Sponge Bob bouncy house:

I was thinking of getting a pinata for the kids as well which really drives home the theme. Anyway, it's a crazy week so more photography, fun and kids next week.

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Slow Mo in the Bay Area

If you ever feel like life is speeding by you or your kids are growing too quickly, here's a photography trick for you, dragging the shutter (or the notion of using a longer exposure). The technique is useful for capturing motion (in sports or waterfalls) or to replicate the effects of age on your memories and results in blurred photos depicting motion. Put another way, it slows the camera down so it's like taking video except all the motion is burned onto a single frame.

If however, the children are driving you crazy, then this photography tip does nothing to speed their development. ... and however tempting it might be to throw yourself in the water, it's not deep enough - not that I tried.

I think God went out of His way to make children cute for the very reason that we have adorable faces to look at when we're on the edge. Cheerio.

Technical Photography Tips: 1/20 sec at f8, ISO 80. This is the lowest ISO and smallest aperture allowed on a Canon G9 point and shoot and with a 1/20 exposure permits reasonably sharp children (who were surprisingly still) and a nice blur of the waterfall. With a subtle fill flash (and a little Lightroom action), the children remain well lit relative to the sun reflecting off the waterfall.

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Fast Moving Baby Photography - Holding on to dear life as the Caltrain speeds by.

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Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer's twins arrive early

by Sara McGinnis posted in Celebrities Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer's twins have arrived! Though the babies were born earlier than expected, both mother and babies are said to be doing well. A rep has confirmed the True Blood couple's baby news, stating, "We can confirm that Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer recently welcomed their... Read more »

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party Ideas

Look for The Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday party ideas to help bring this classic story to life on your baby's first birthday. An Eric Carle birthday party is a fun way to encourage your child to develop a lifelong love of reading.

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Baby Spitting Up

Feel like you are being covered in baby spit up? Fear it might be too much? Before you head to your pediatricians for a diagnoses of reflux, realize that it is at all uncommon for frequent baby spit up. Find out if your baby spitting up is a medical problem and ways to decrease the amount of spit up.

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Avocado Recipe

You might be surprised that this simple recipe results in an avocado baby. A basic purée will have your baby gobbling up avocado.

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