I wanted to pass along what sounds like such a fun event! Are you a fan of the ABC hit show, Pushing Daisies? I’ll admit, I’ve never seen it. And it looks AWESOME, like a show I would completely LOVE, but I just can’t seem to find time to commit myself to obsessing about another show, what with that whole, “parenting five children” thing and all. But this event might make me change my mind! They’re pushing pie, PIE, people! Who doesn’t like pie?

It’s the Mobile Pie Hole – a truck traveling the country all throughout September, giving away free pie (pie!!) to kick off the second season of Pushing Daisies. The Pie Hole will be in Denver this Wednesday, September 17th, at Larimer Square from 10 to 2. They’re going to be serving up free pie, and giving away pie-cutters, spatulas, and more! Stop by and get some free pie! Tell them LaLaGirl sent you!

I wonder what I’d have to do to score one of those awesome daisy bicycles??

On the Project Pink site’s Email a Duck, Raise a Buck page, you can decorate a duck of your own, and then email it to all your friends. For every emailed duck, Munchkin is donating five cents to Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation’s Komen for the Cure.

The campaign actually began on August 1st, but I’m just now getting around to posting about it. Breast Cancer Awareness Month actually begins in October, though, and there’s lots going on with Project Pink between now and then! You can buy a duck like the one pictured here for just $2.99, with 100% of the proceeds going to Komen for the Cure. From late September through the month of October, you can also pick up one of these from Babies R’ Us, Target, Kmart, Meiger, HEB, Fred Meyer, Burlington, Buy Buy Baby, Rite Aid, Longs, and Zellers.

And in October, celebrity decorated pink ducks will be available for auction on eBay with all proceeds going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. You can check out the celebrity photos on the site. Munchkin makes so many amazing products for babies and young children – I LOVE that they’re focusing on the mamas, and bringing awareness to breast cancer.

I think we’re going to head out in the next day or two and get haircuts for everyone. Pablo is looking WAY shaggy!

To be quite honest, I had no IDEA people were willing to part with an entire house payment’s worth of moolah for a blog template. I seriously think I need to start designing again. But hey! Go there! Enter! The big winner could be YOU!

I think they’re so rad! Probably not what I’d order for my mom, but hey – you can send a bouquet of these to me any old day. They make me want to eat Skittles.

The highly colourful flowers have been developed by a Dutch businessman who dyes each bloom in the colours of the rainbow. The dyes are produced from natural plant extracts and are absorbed by the flowers as they grow. A special process then controls how much colour reaches each petal – with spectacular results.

I’d never heard of these until today, when a friend of mine mentioned trying to track them down for her mom. The place she found them wanted $14 a stem! ::chokes:: I still think they’re awesome.

We had a set of these already, in the Spongebob design, and my kids love them. This set is even better though, because it contains two full sets of the alphabet, a set of numbers, and a whole set of sealife creature shapes, like octopuses and jellyfish and sharks and stuff. So much fun! You can see how much my children enjoyed these:

Compared to other brands we’ve tried, these foam letters and shapes are really durable, sturdy, and look nicer too, since the letters and numbers are printed with cute little patterns. Mallory tried to score all the “purple flower letters”, but the other girls weren’t having that at all. Eventually, they all worked together to create a big collage on the bathtub wall of all the letters – and man, there are a ton of them! Of course, in our house, more is always better. What’s that saying? Less is more? Screw that! More is more! More is more!

I’m not sure what styles of these foam letters are available in stores, since I basically run through the store as fast as I can without stopping to browse the bath toys, hoping we can buy groceries without anyone asking me, “Twins? Oh, double trouble! Bet you’ve got your hands full!” and without any of my children having a tantrum. However, you can see the entire selection on the Munchkin website right here. Oh! And while you’re there, enter the contest to win a Munchkin gift basket, full of cool stuff!

Hmmm…as I check out that page, I’m suddenly really coveting the Spongebob and Dora bath squirters. Oh, would my children have fun with these! They’re right at the age where they love attacking each other with water.

So, looking at those pictures, can you believe I still bathe all my children together? I’ve got to be efficient, you know! Does it make you think of that Shel Silverstein poem?

There’s too many kids in this tub.
There’s too many elbows to scrub.
I just washed a behind
That I’m sure wasn’t mine,
There’s too many kids in this tub.

At least I have pictures like these to torture them with later in life.

Today, I was at a playdate with a bunch of my mommy friends, and two of them who happen to be photographers were discussing various photo forums and the lame people who frequent them. I overheard their conversation but didn’t have much to add to it, since I don’t know an f-stop from a shortstop, but I got the very clear idea that most forums are full of people quick to criticize without offering up much support. See, I would hate that. I would hate it if I went to a forum, trying to figure something out about my camera as a total noob, and had people giving me grief. Ugh!

Here’s a site more up my alley: No Bs Photo Success Photography Forums – a Digital Photography Forum dedicated to, what else: No B.S. I don’t know how helpful they are to people who don’t know what they’re doing, but the fact that they have a picture of the site founders in their boxer shorts makes me want to check them out. I’m just weird like that.

The testimonials are pretty convincing as well. And! They have a bunch of Photoshop tutorials. I thought it was a little weird that the last newsletter posted was from January of this year (hey guys! It’s June!) but hey. Everyone gets busy.