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Toddler Mussolini riles the crowd into a frenzy

• Lunch bag art blog. A dad’s lunch break project for his kids. @#$%^&*! that’s cool.
• News: One-year-old found under floorboards… complete with keepsake photo.
• Product: Diaper loading bodysuit. Geek joke.
• Onfim doodles on his school work, in the 11th century. Click the thumbnails. Don’t miss the ‘Me and My Dad’ drawing. Dad is a warrior.
• New baby! Adrienne and Jim of Baby Toolkit were losing street cred as their kid grew older, so they did what any self respecting baby bloggers would do. Congratulations! [Sober sidenote: sometimes when a baby blogger never mentions his or her kids, it's because there are none. Please, be a discerning reader when you consume product and parenting advice.]
• Fetus cookie cutter. DaddyTypes says it all.
• Z Recs interviews Carter’s CEO about tagless baby burns. Ongoing coverage of the story behind the headlines.
• Holiday gift buying reminder: RetailMeNot has web store coupons.

Sharing

• Thinga-reader Groovymarlin shares: Thomas the Train costume
• Thinga-reader Jen shares: the Cadbury Bunny costume
• Thinga-reader Bob shares: Mutant Chiroptera and rabid infant Chiroptera

Historical Photos from Shorpy blog. Click the ‘full size’ link on each page.

1. Thanksgiving masking, 1911. Forget Halloween. On Thanksgiving you don a costume and go door-to-door hoping for pennies and fresh food.
2. Baby wagon, made in 1808, photographed in 1921. Where will your plastic Little Tikes wagon be in 113 years? Yep, don’t make ‘em like they used to.
3. Infant cages outside a nursery in 1946. And you thought babycage.net was a joke. I’m guessing these cages were meant to keep out flying insects.
4. Shop window filled with baby strollers, 1920, and a second one. Count on Heywood-Wakefield for quality wicker carriages.
5. The saddest 6-year-old birthday party ever. Eleven kids. One sort of happy. Nice dress uniforms though.
6. Garbage pail kids, 1912. Or, early adopters of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle.’
7. Count the baby proofing violations in this kitchen. 1943. I count 10 if you consider the toddler years.

Saturday, November 15th, 2008Link Rodeo