Christmas Gift Ideas For Babies - Gifts That Will Keep Giving For Many Christmases to Come

If you've ever watch very young children open gifts, they seem more enthralled with the box, paper and bows than they do with what's inside the box. This year, why not take that into account when selecting gifts for baby. Here are gift ideas that are sure to delight babies with the wrapping, and will continue to benefit them as they grow older.

Giving a membership is a great way to stimulate baby, but will also allow parents to socialize as well. A membership to a children's museum, indoor play place, the YMCA or YWCA, infant music programs such as Kindermusik, or Musicgarten are all great ways to start to get baby involved with others, and will also provide opportunities for young parents, and not so young parents to meet other families with children of the same age. These are opportunities that families, even those who can afford them, will be eager to have, but might overlook now with the responsibility of a baby in the house.

Now is a great time to give baby a collection of stocks. Depending on the stocks you pick, it won't cost you nearly as much as it would have a year ago as many are cheaper now than they ever have been, and stand an excellent chance of increasing in value. Buy stocks in all those stores that we can't seem to live without, (you know their names) and that seem to be increasing profits in spite of it all. Baby will look back in 10 years or so and give you credit for fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.

Go green and give baby a collection of healthy, organic, and environmentally friendly products. A gift certificate to an organic food store in a basket with some samples of food and snacks for baby, and wine and cheese for mom and dad would provide the healthiest, freshest, and not to mention tastiest food. A gift card to an organic clothing store in a basket with an organic blanket, towels and toys would mean baby could sleep on organic linen, and wear clothes that avoid the use of chemicals and synthetic fabrics that often cause skin and respiratory irritation. And since baby spends most of the first few years of life in his room, an air purifier is an excellent way to create a healthy environment by removing airborne pollutants that can contribute to and aggravate asthma and allergy.

An excellent resource for a HEPA air purifier to remove airborne pollutants from baby's air (an mom and dad's too) is offered by PurerAir.com-- the Baby's Breath Purifier at http://purerair.com/babys_breath.html

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Silverlit PicooZ Helicopter Review

Silverlit PicooZ Helicopter

by Silverlit

Technical Details

• Transmitter Requires 6 x AA Batteries - not included

• Product Dimensions: Main Rotor Diameter 130mm (5.25)
• Length 170mm (6.5) excluding rotors. Rear Rotor diameter 30mm (1.25)
• Product Weight: Only 10g, including Flight Battery
• Rechargeable Flight Battery: High capacity integral Lithium Polymer battery
• Charger: Integral Transmitter/Charger supplied with LED indicator/Auto shut off
• Simply plug in and charge, with easy to use connections
• Charging Time: 20-30 minutes for full charge
• Flight Duration: 10 minutes between charges
• Batteries Required: 6 x 1.5v AA Alkaline Batteries for Transmitter/Charger
• Control Specification: Supplied completely assembled and already charged
• Ready-to-fly, with pre-installed 2 Channel Proportional Infra Red Control System
• Take off, hover and descend, turn left and right
• Range: Up to 10m (30ft). Frequency: Infra Red Control System - Bands
• A, B & C allow up to three Silverlit Models to be flown together
• Instruction Manual included: Providing helpful tips for the new Helicopter Pilot
• Gift Box Dimensions: 360 x 160 x 100mm
• Gift Box Weight: 0.4kgs

Customer Reviews

89 of 89 people found the following review helpful: Great Fun!, 8 Jun 2007 Durability: Fun: Educational: It's a great toy and alot of fun for the price. The controls allow you to alter the speed of the main rotor to alter the lift, also the speed of the tail rotor to turn the helicopter. With judicious application of the stick on weights you can balance the model so that it drifts forward when in stable flight. It takes a bit of practice to get this thing to go in roughly the direction you want it too but that is half the fun.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Picoo Z Helicopter, 3 Jan 2008

Durability: Fun: Educational:

I got this from my wife as a Christmas present. I can't stop playing with it. It is so light and easy to control. The controls take some getting use to, but once mastered it is no problem. My two girls like watching flying low over there heads. I would highley recommend this as a gift.


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Movie Review - Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

It's been way too long for Indiana Jones to whiplash his way back to the silver screen and only Spielberg could bring alive the persona of Indiana Jones, hat, boots, bull whip and all. For the uninitiated let me first give a small history lesson. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, two of the hottest talents of the seventies decided to come together to make a movie which at the time was promoted as "the return of high adventure". The movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was directed by Spielberg & produced by Lucas, and went on to be one of the highest grosser of all time. Set in the time of 2nd World War, the pulsating story of the search for the Ark of the Covenant moved from US to Nepal and climaxed in Egypt.

It was followed by the not so good "Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Doom". Amrish Puri made a forgettable Hollywood debut but the romance of Indy's adventures remained alive. The third "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" is my second favorite because it had the unflappable Sean Connery who plays Indy's father. The search of the Holy Grail is one of my all time favorite yarns.
The common thread in all the above movies was the swash buckling, devil may care Indy Jones who got into and out of the most impossible situations with charm and panache. He plays a professor of archaeology who goes after the most difficult searches for old and forgotten relics, fights the bad guys, gets the girl and always has a happy ending.

The latest offering is all of the above but hey, Indy is twenty years older and yet hasn't seem to have lost his appetite of jumping over unjumpables and avoiding the million bullets that chase him. But then he has an illustrious contemporary in our own Rajnikant who can do all of this and more.
The movie is set in the mid fifties when US saw a commie behind every pole and the obsession of UFOs was coming of age. However Spielberg's obsession with aliens continues to be unrelenting as ever. So this time we have a sword brandishing Kate Blanchett, a protégé of Stalin, who with a little help of stoic faced hoodlums manages to get hold of Indy to guide them to the high security warehouse where the US Govt. stores all its rare, unexplainable artifacts. Those who have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark would remember the last scene where the Ark is being wheeled into this warehouse to its new and anonymous residence. The desired object this time is, well what else, a crystal skull which is the key to untold knowledge and unlimited power. Indy scores in round one and escapes, only to resume the chase later in the time honored tradition of the perennial adventurer.

Accompanying him this time is a John Dean look-alike teenager with an attitude. As it turns out he is Indy's son and from whom? Surprise, surprise, its Karen Allen, the vivacious, hard drinking, kick ass girl friend from the first edition of the series. Like Indy she has aged but the passion remains alive. It was great watching her all over again.

The end is predictable. The special effects from Lucas's factory Industrial Light & Magic are awesome, especially the aliens sequence at the end. And Indy decides to settle down with his old lady love and the new found progeny. I loved his reply when asked by Karen if there were other women in his life and why he didn't marry them. The man says"Yes there were some but all of them had the same problem. None of them was you". Here's a toast to old love and fairy tale endings. Cheers !

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You Suck - A Love Story Book Review

You Suck: A Love Story tells the classic tale of two vampires in love, but it's not your average vampire tale. Grocery store night-clerk, Thomas C. Flood wakes up to find himself turned into a vampire by his girlfriend, Jody. Though he's more than a little mad about his transformation, the two decide to make it work. First on their list of things to do, besides experimenting with their new powers and abilities, is finding a minion. They find one in Abby Normal, a goth teen who worships their kind. All seems to be going well, until the vamp who turned Jody comes after them, and Flood's coworkers (a group of anti-vampires called The Animals) find out he's a vampire. Then there's the blue prostitute named Blue who wants them all dead.

Critics at The Onion call author Christopher Moore, "The thinking man's Dave Barry or the impatient man's Tom Robbins." Fans of comical fantasies will love this book!

I love how witty and clever the writing is in this novel, yet it's modern and easy to follow. It has a writing style and themes that are accessible to any thinking reader. I also like how Moore works within the vampire mythologies, creating a few new ones and dispelling some classics. For instance, victims turn to dust after they are drained of blood, and vampires cannot ingest anything but blood. These changes held my interest as I wanted to know how these vampires interacted with each other and the rest of the world.

There is nothing I disliked about this novel. It was truly entertaining and clever!

I have to find more of Christopher Moore's novels. I had heard somewhere that You Suck: A Love Story wasn't his best work, so I thought it would be a good one to start with. Now I'm wondering how fantastic his other works are if this is considered not as good. I'll definitely be finding more of his work to read!

Christopher Moore is known for his comical takes on classic myths and characters. In this novel, he takes a new twist on vampires. In others, he examines Death (the classic grim reaper) and even Jesus. I'm sure a few could take offense to his writing, so it would be wise to research a bit before reader and to keep an open mind.

You Suck: A Love Story has everything you could want in a book - it's funny and smart and very entertaining.

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