Our new designs for the Big Bones line have finally arrived. We are so excited to bring this to you! We had a great time creating the design and making something special for big brother and sister too. We will be adding more images to this section as they become available. Also our web site uses roll over images. What this mean is that when you put your mouse over the image it will roll over to another image. Try it out!

Woo Hoo! Get your blog party on. I’m Pamela Kramer owner of the Happy Panda big and tall for babies online boutique! Don’t be fooled though our clothes will fit the non big and tall babies too. Just order based on weight using our size chart and you can still get the same cute designs! We carry tagless baby clothes made in America. I absolutely love blogging and making new friends with WAHMs & SAHMs along the way. We offered prize #12 to three lucky winners which are gift certificates in the amount of $50 each. It is always a pleasure to work with the twins! I have enjoyed helping them with this party and I’ve enjoyed meeting the sponsors. Come back by as I’m always updating this blog with new designs, product reviews, contests and events. If you would like to be updated on what we are doing each month and money saving coupon codes please sign up for our monthly newsletter here. Have a good time everyone! If you want to see the prizes listed by categories please click here. Just a note - we are no longer adding prizes. We hope you enjoy the ones we were able to list.

Update on the Ultimate Blog Party as of 3/13, 4:05pm cst. There are 1,412 bloggers signed into Mr. Linky but there are only 1,198 comments. You have to leave a comment to be entered into the prize drawing. Good Luck!

The site is up! Mr. Linky is coming. We are continuing to code and post. Thank you for your patience.

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The hosting company has restarted the server. Now 5 Minutes for Mom is working on debugging the system. Thank you for your patience and I will continue to update this post as I get news from Janice and Susan. Meanwhile the additional prize post is up and I will continue to add to it. Please help us spread the word within your own party posts. Feel free to gather your list in the meantime so that you are ready to list your top choices of prizes!

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5 Minutes for Mom is experiencing a small technical issue with their server. The hosting company is working vigorously to fix the glitch!  Don’t worry prizes are still posted here and you can begin your shopping list. When their site is up and running you will be ready to list your top choices! Thank you for your patience.

Leah Segedie the Publisher/Owner of Bookieboo a Fitness Hangout for Moms has given Happy Panda her seal of approval. We’ve just been added to their shopping area! Bookieboo is a place where moms who are into fitness, weight loss, and healthy living get together to share. Members consist of all kinds of moms: stay-at-home moms, working moms, moms with babies or toddlers, and pregnant moms. If this sounds like a place for you then click on over and join up now. Tell them Happy Panda sent you!

Thank you Megan G. from Peekaboo Picks Magazine for such a cute article about our tagless baby clothing for bigger babies. “As parents, we know how frustrating it can be to buy the correct size for our child only to find he’s already outgrown it before he even hits the age range.  This has even happened to me, and my little boy is on the small side!  So I can imagine it must be very frustrating for parents of bigger babies.” To read the full article please click the Peekaboo logo or click here.

Mom-Owned Businesses Offering Goody Bags to New Moms
Goody Bags Are Not Just For Kids Anymore

For Immediate Release

Media Relations Contact:
Lois Whittaker
609-844-1061 | lois@goodiesformom.com

Lawrenceville, NJ (March 1, 2008) – Remember at the end of a party as a kid how much fun it was to receive a goody bag full of treats. Well, now there is a goody bag available for new moms. Goodies for Mom is offering new moms a bag of treats to celebrate the birth of their new babies.

The goody bags include product samples, coupons, safety tips, brochures on innovative new products, and helpful tools for new moms. There is a congratulatory letter, information on breastfeeding and baby wearing, a SIDS safety guide, and the “Mommy’s Little Helper” chart for breastfeeding moms to help track their nursing schedule and wet diapers. The samples include lollipops for pregnant moms, Mothering magazine, lanolin cream, and organic baby care products. The goody bags are all tied up in a gift bag with a pretty ribbon, a real treat. The bags are available at healthcare offices throughout the Central New Jersey/Eastern Pennsylvania area.

“As a mother of two boys, I am still always looking for new products and ways to make my life easier,” states Lois Whittaker, developer of the New Mom Goody Bag program and inventor of the Cushie Pushie Breast Support Pillow. “We developed these bags to give new moms a jumpstart in their journey into motherhood.”

The goody bags are also a way to promote mom-owned, baby-friendly businesses and products. The following companies are currently participating in the program:

Companies with a local connection

• Creative Memories (Debbi Vogel Radlinsky, Local Consultant, Lawrenceville, NJ - http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/debbiradlinsky)
• Cushie Pushieâ„¢ Breast Support Pillow and Breastfeeding Gift Items (Cushie Pushie Company, Lawrenceville, NJ – http://www.cushiepushie.com)
• QuirkyBaby (Princeton, NJ - http://www.quirkybaby.com)
• Shower Hugâ„¢ (Belmama and Cherub, Princeton, NJ - http://www.belmamaandcherub.com)
  
  

Other companies participating from throughout the United States

• BabyOrganics Natural Cleaning Products (Healthy Home Products - http://www.babyganics.com)
• First Impressions Maternity (http://www.firstimpressionsbaby.com)
• Happy Panda (http://www.happypandababy.com)
• Lansinoh^® Lanolin (Lansinoh Laboratories - http://www.lansinoh.com)
• Mere’ Minerals Mineral Makeup (http://mereminerals.org)
• Mothering Natural Family Living Magazine (http://www.mothering.com)
• Nature’s Baby Organics (http://www.naturesbabyproducts.com)
• Pretty Posh Princess (http://www.prettyposhprincess.com)
• Swaddle Me ^® (Kiddopotamus & Company - http://www.kiddopotamus.com)
• Wordsiesâ„¢ (http://www.wordsies.com)
  
  

About Goodies for Mom
A division of the Cushie Pushie Company, Goodies for Mom is a site providing product reviews and news, articles, and contest/giveaway information on the baby industry for moms. For more information, visit http://www.goodiesformom.com.

About Cushie Pushie Company
The Cushie Pushie Company is headquartered in Lawrenceville, NJ. A working mother of two, Lois Whittaker is the owner of the company and inventor of the Cushie Pushie^TM Breast Support Pillow. With a goal to make motherhood easier for new as well as experience moms, the Cushie Pushie Company aims to provide quality products at a reasonable cost. For more information, visit www.cushiepushie.com.

Pinks & Blues Holds Contest For Expectant Moms; Hosts a Baby Shower for actress Angela Kinsey East Greenwich, RI (January 15, 2008) – The mother-and-daughters team at Pinks & Blues (www.pinksandblues.com) — the fast-growing online destination for parents to stay up-to-date with trendy and innovative products and services, is hosting a dual Virtual Baby Shower for two mothers-to-be. A Virtual Baby Shower is a shower that is hosted online rather than in person, with the gifts shipped to the shower honorees. Pinks & Blues is currently receiving baby products from companies, and will pass along the gifts to the honorees.

One of the Pinks & Blues Virtual Baby Shower honorees is actress Angela Kinsey, who stars in NBC’s “The Office,” and is due with her first child in May (the announcement can be found here).

Pinks & Blues is running a contest to determine who the other pregnant honoree will be by asking expectant moms to send in their inspirational, fun or surprising pregnancy stories. Friends and family members can also nominate expectant moms by sending in their stories about why their nominee deserves to be honored with the Pinks & Blues Virtual Baby Shower (contest details can be found here: http://pinksandbluesgirls.wordpress.com/pinks-blues-virtual-baby-shower/ ).

“I am expecting my fourth boy in June, and when we announced my pregnancy on our site ( www.pinksandblues.com), many of the vendors we have featured so generously offered to send me baby items,” said Pinks & Blues Co-founder Audrey Couto McClelland. “But my sister, my mom and I thought how much fun it would be to instead use these baby items to run a Virtual Baby Shower for one of our Pinks & Blues readers who is also expecting a baby around the same time as me. We thought it would be a fantastic way to make an expectant mom feel showered with gifts like a celebrity! And that’s where we got the idea to get an actual celebrity to shower, as well.”

McClelland’s sister, Co-founder Jane Couto Porricell, added, “When we approached the vendors with our idea, the response was amazing! The companies are thrilled about participating in our Virtual Baby Shower.” These companies include Hanes, Robeez, Strollometer, Mabel’s Labels, Tots On-the-Go, Posh Peacock, Skimbaco, Secure2Me, Be So Beautiful Baby, Rag & Bone and Bambina Ballerina.
Getting actress Angela Kinsey on board as the celebrity honoree for the Virtual Baby Shower was very exciting for the ladies of Pinks & Blues. Sharon Couto, Co-founder and mother of McClelland and Porricelli said, “Angela was our first choice! She is so smart, funny and feisty… yet approachable and such a great role model for moms. And we just love her on ‘The Office.’ It is really special to have her a part of this.”

Expectant moms can nominate themselves (or be nominated by others) for the Pinks & Blues Virtual Baby Shower through Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2008. The ladies at Pinks & Blues Girls will have a panel choose ten moms-to-be from the stories they receive for the contest, and then Pinks & Blues readers will vote on their favorite story. The voting will end on March 6, 2008 and the Virtual Baby Shower gifts will be shipped on May 1, 2008.

Pinks & Blues readers will also have the additional fun of following both Angela Kinsey’s and the contest winner’s pregnancies with blog updates on Pinks & Blues.

To view the complete feature on the Pinks & Blues Virtual Baby Shower, visit http://pinksandbluesgirls.wordpress.com/pinks-blues-virtual-baby-show

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