the Wry Baby Blog

We had a photoshoot a few weeks ago with all sorts of cute little babinskis. While working on the selects we came across this photo and it so captured what Wry Baby is all about that we had to share it with y’alls. Un-retouched joy and fun in our Super Snapsuit. It’s seeing stuff like this that convinces us we’re doing something worthwhile!

Can you picture some-little-one you know in a Super Snapsuit? You can fly over to wrybaby.com and capture yourself one for just $30!

And if you’re looking for a photographer who can really bring out the fun (in camera and from behind it) give a looky at Cole Rodger Photographics. She’s awesome.

Safe Baby Handling Tips, by Wry Baby, is a pretty funny baby shower gift. Duh. But can it POSSIBLY be as funny as this lovely young woman thinks it is? Astonishingly, the answer is YES. And we think you’ll enjoy this candid footage of a first time reader.

Safe Baby Handling Tips available here for the hilariously low price of $9.95.

It’s mid-January, which means it’s time for us to go nuts getting ready for the big New York International Gift Fair (Jan. 30-Feb. 4). We’ll have a ton of new fun stuff to launch (more Snapsuits™!). For weeks we’ve been designing our brains out. Below are some snaps we took of some sketches & doodles. Super rough, but that’s how we roll until final ink hits paper and paper hits scanner. Did you know all our designs are hand-drawn by Wry Baby artisans? True!

2009 sucked, right? We’re not just waving chickens around the office while Mysterio shouts incantations in a weird voice. For a limited time we’re offering our classic “NEW” Snapsuit™ for 50% OFF the SALE PRICE. That’s right. $8.50! Now THAT’S starting 2010 right, no? See details below.

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From an end-cap display of cakes at my local grocery store comes this last Christmas item. I don’t know whether it’s the clearly shocked look on Santa’s decapitated cakey head that’s so disturbing or if it’s just the whole darn concept. I should also add that it was REALLY heavy, which added to it’s grossness.

Nothing spells trouble like the gift of a Nerf shooting device and no targets. I picked up my son’s gift from Santa, the Nerf N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35 (the longer the name the cooler the weapon), and even I almost got into trouble as I eyed the delicate, thin glass of our chandelier bulbs and the cat. So, quickly, I got to work making some targets for the Boy out of all the Christmas debris spread all over the house. It took only an hour and in the end the house was clean and the Boy stays out of trouble. For a while at least.

Tools needed: Trash. A Pen. Tape or Hot Glue. A desire not to have stuff broken all over your house.

Here’s how easy this is. Draw some bad guy Monsters on sheets of cardboard trash and cut them out. Oh, don’t give me tha”But I can’t draw!” stuff. That’s why they’re Monsters and not horses. Now horses are impossible to draw. Anyway, at the bottom of each head or whatever, leave some cardboard to fold back like a little stand. Then take another piece of cardboard trash, cut it into a strip and tape or hot glue it to that stand piece and the back of the target (see photo below).

IMPORTANT: They don’t have to be pretty! After all, this is all about keeping your stuff from being all shot up and not about winning a prize at the fair. Anyway, look how slapdash mine turned out. Basically at this point you’re done. BUT there are still some other fun things you can do from here:

1. Have your child color them in. Thereby keeping them out of trouble for at least 30 more minutes!
2. Name and Rank them. Which is the leader? Are there drones that need taking down first? Write their info on the backs of the targets and create a fun back story with your child.
3. Imagine up some fun games. Get the ball rolling by hiding the targets all around the house while your child hides their eyes. Send them on a mission to take down the alien home invasion! Or maybe set them all up in one room and time your child to see how fast they can clear the room of the alien menace. What’s their best time?

You get the idea! Have a great holiday and good hunting from the pals who got your back at Wry Baby.

Looking for more fun things to do with Junior & Juniorette? Check out our New Parents Fun Book for more unique games and crafts and, for some soapy fun, pick up our Pirate Hooded Towel. A secret code on the label will get you access to some great bath time papercrafts. Exclusively from the brainiacs at wrybaby.com.

Stay warm and snuggly tonight! To inspire you, enjoy this parade of happy hideous holiday hotness.

Usually, nothing says, “I ran out of time” like a gift certificate. But Wry Baby’s Gift Certificate is actually such a labor-intensive, painstaking process, that you’d be a fool not to capitalize on our bad business sense and old-world craftsmanship. See below why a Wry Baby Gift Certificate is actually the most thoughtful gift you can email this season.