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My oldest insists this is the way you're supposed to use the Playskool Easy Grip Bowl

Every now and then, I look back at a long list of reviews I've done here and on my own blog, and I stop and realize that the everyday products occassionaly escape my reviews.  I'm so used to these regular items that I'm blind to them.

So here's a list of three products that may seem a little "normal" or boring compared to my usual blogs, but ones that have been tried, tested and get used regularly in this house:

Take & Toss cups:  we lose everything in my house.  Especially the small parts that are necessary to making a child's product function.  (ie. the straws from our sippy cups, the safety to the baby cups, things like that)  Which is why I love the Take & Toss line from Learning Curve.  They're affordable and I don't cry when I lose a part because it's no big deal to toss the rest and get more.  It's a whole series of baby items - sippy cups, bowls, plates, snack packs.  They even come with themed cups now, which I don't remember with my first:  Cars, Disney Princesses, Sesame Street, Thomas and more.  You can find the line at all sorts of stores like Babies R Us, but if you want to shop online, go to the Learning Curve site.  Use coupon code LCINFANT for 15% off your entire order there until the end of September 2007.

Playskool Easy Grip Bowl:  this one may seem random but I love it.  It's new to us with the baby and I have to get more as I keep re-washing the one we have.  Click on the link and check out the shape.  See the little section with the hole in it?  That's for your thumb.  I can't tell you how ergonomically pleasing this is for my hand when I'm feeding the baby.  And really, I didn't think I needed something "comfortable" to feed my baby with, but this bowl is great.  You slip your thumb through the hole and it pretty much cradles the bowl and leaves your other hand free for spoon-feeding/whatever else.  And it's snug when secured with your thumb.  When I use our other bowls, the baby will regularly swing his arms around and knock the bowl out of my hand (thus, sending wet goopy food flying all over me, him, the floor, etc.)  He has yet to knock this bowl out of my hand because of the design. 

It has some other nifty features too - like the spoon changing color if the food's too hot.  And the bowl comes with a lid that has a little hole in the top that lets out hot air while it cooks.  (We don't use it for the microwave but I imagine this would be handy if we did.)

It's exclusive to CVS.  Shop in-store, or go online and use coupon code 4-6525 for $10 off your order of $50, plus free shipping.

The Snack Trap: so I used the Snack Trap with my oldest and will definitely be using it a second time around.  Made by a Mom, this little product is another incredibly useful one.  Every Mom who has or has once had a toddler knows that with kids under the age of 2, all those tiny snack foods like Puffs, Cheerios, Goldfish end up on the floor more times than they end up in little mouths. 

And as a seasoned Mom, I'm embarrassed to admit that I pulled a rookie mistake the other day.  I put a bowl of Gerber Puffs in front of my 7 month old.  Yes, really.  I'm not quite sure what I was thinking (probably thinking about a million other things I had to do) but it took all of ten seconds before the bowl and the Puffs ended up in a pile all over the floor.  The Snack Trap is a product made to help avoid these messes.  It's a little cup with handles (easy for chubby hands to grib) and the lid makes it easy to stick a hand in for a snack, but when turned upside down, it won't spill.  They're $4.99 each on the Snack Trap website and when you buy 3 items or more on the site, it's $1 to ship everything.