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Although in this case, it's the chat (French for ''cat'') on the shirt that's really stirring things up. Enter Blabla, a perennial Cosmotot fave, and irreverently nifty purveyor of tops, bottoms, sweaters, pillows, dolls, rattles, blankets, mobiles, backpacks, and other endearingly offbeat accessories for kids handmade, hand-knitted and ...

No doubt the kiddies will be putting the pedal to the metal to get to the table when they get a load of the red-hot, super-soft Car Lunch bag (shown at top left, $15) from baby- and kid-centered gift company Bestever, Inc. Equally ideal for carrying a yummy tuna on rye as it is for toting a mini-car collection to a friend's house, this cherry red ...

As if you could be anything but after taking a peek at the endearingly impish, bright and colorful organic cotton collection of tops, bottoms, cutie patootie leggings, dresses, kimonos, onesies, ruffled chemises, hats and more (infant garments shown at top left in Blueberry/Sky and Watermelon/Sky motifs, $9.50+; toddler designs shown at bottom ...

It's not every day you can literally wear your heart on your sleeve, so why not embrace your inner self and jump on the body-inspired bandwagon courtesy of I Heart Guts? Huh? That's right. At I Heart Guts, it all about loving your body - well, its insides anyway. Their line of surprisingly likable tees for babies and adults are packed with ...

Well, that, and mud. Lots of ooey, gooey have-a-boot-stompin-good-time mud. As I'm sure you moms and dads out there already know, the stuff's like a kid magnet. So instead of having your younglings spend rainy days with their little noses smashed up against the windows just itching to get outside and puddle jump, outfit them in a Splish Splash ...

Or in this case, whoever smelt it is quickly going to find out that dealing with a diaperload of um, compost, isn't exactly going to smell as herbally fresh as a lavender-filled lingerie sachet. Babyish, new sister company to Weddingish, is full of good clean cheek with its line of 100% mischievous, 100% cotton onesies, tees and organic garb ...

With so many retailers riding shotgun on the bio-friendly bandwagon, it's no wonder parents are at a loss when it comes to making a single store their one-stop organic shop. Thanks to Nubius Organics - think of them as conservationists with good fashion sense - it takes just few picks and clicks to outfit your whole abode with eco-friendly, ...

The idea of ''going green'' has gotten a lot more user--friendly and accessible - going beyond the idea of exclusively including fanatical, fervently-devout tree-huggers and hemp-loving, commune-living hippies only - as more and more eco-conscious folks and families jump on the bio-friendly bandwagon. An easy way to do your part is by recycling. ...

Mom's are allowed to be tired, contrary to popular belief. Even stay-at-home domestics like me. Regardless of what the working world thinks, I don't spend the day with my feet propped up, eating bon-bons and watching some doofy soap opera. Nevertheless, folks just love to ask me that one question I hate most ...  ''So, what you do you do ...

The holidays can be stressful, especially when there's way too many people crammed into one hot, cramped straggly little line at the mall to see Santa; or there doesn't seem to be enough time in just one freezing, rainy weekend to get your poor hub to hang up all those intricate holiday lights on both stories of the house; and don't forget the ...