the Wry Baby Blog

This is YOUR day (no matter what all those dang graduates say). Let it all hang out and have a great day!

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Looking to get Dad a unique Father’s Day gift this year? Something he can use everyday? Something that doesn’t require sizing information? Something all the fellas at the office will surely envy? Have we got the Father’s Day gift for YOU! EXTRA NIPPLES!

Comfortable, easy to wear. Both attractive AND durable. Wry Baby’s Extra Nipples were made with Dad in mind. These four handsome pin back nipple buttons come with instructions and, if you use the COUPON CODE: NIPPLEBLOG, you can pick these beauties up for 25% OFF*. That’s right, for JUST $6.75 at wrybaby.com.

* Cut and Paste code into section labeled SALES AND DISCOUNTS, located on your shopping cart page. Sale ends June 30, 2009 (EXTENDED!). Rock out with your Nips out.

More fun baby shower book press! This time it’s the good folks at babyzone.com reviewing our newest of best-selling baby shower gift books, The New Parents’ Fun Book! From babyzone.com:

SWEET NEW-MOM GIFTS (Under $40!) – by Lexi Walters – Part baby journal, part activity pack, The New Parents’ Fun Book is a wicked funny gift for the friend you considered Least Likely to Conceive, or just the one most in need of a serious laugh.

Find the best-selling baby journal, The New Parents’ Fun Book at wrybaby.com for about $12.

What’s so funny? Grab yourself a sneak peek of our New Parents’ Fun Book here.

Wry Baby’s best-selling baby book, Safe Baby Handling Tips, got a little digital ink from urbanbaby.com last week and what’s better, we were paired with the Dad’s Survival Kit from our friends at Diaper Dude! Safe Baby Handling Tips is no stranger to fun Rookie-Dad gift ideas, but this is a really good baby shower gift idea! From urbanbaby.com:

GIFTS: For Dad – by Joyce Slaton - …Another thing you should put in the survival kit: Wry Baby’s Safe Baby Handling Tips. As much as you’d like your baby-daddy to be reading Dr. Sears or Elizabeth Pantley, it’s not likely. This satiric, graphics-based guide to keeping baby alive will at least amuse Daddy as he learns that peekaboo is a better game for infants than chess, and testing bottles is better done by shaking a drop of milk on the inner wrist rather than taking a swig.

Diaper Dude’s Dad Survival Kit, $110 at diaperdude.com; Safe Baby Handling Tips, $10 at wrybaby.com

I’ve so got pirates on the brain. It all started when Cost Plus World Market asked us to design some fun hooded towels. We did a Princess towel for the little ladies and the funnest ever pirate hooded towel for little buccaneers. Now my world is all piratey!!!

I recently found that coolest Pirates of the Caribbean vinyl figure, the worlds worst pirate accessory and now, the world’s best pirate haberdashery! Captain Jack’s Pirate Hats are the best pirate hat replicas you’ll find this side of Port Royal. For how crazily well-crafted these hats are, they come in a huge number of styles. Most of his pirate hats are handcrafted from wool felt and treated with either acrylic (a dull matte finish) or an oil/wax treatment (for maximum weatherproofing), but there are also cashmere, straw and sea grass styles to choose from. Ahh, but that’s not the only reason we’re obsessed with Captain Jack’s Pirate hats.

These exquisite hat stands are also available to display your awesome pirate prize! Ranging from $175 to $325, they are every bit worth the booty in their attention to concept and detail. Guess what’s going on wrybabydave’s Christmas list this year?

And while Captain Jack’s flippin’ awesome pirate hats will make an excellent gift for Dave and Dad, why not let all adventurers in your family play pirates with our Pirate hooded towel? Captain Jacks hats can be found at captjackspiratehats.com and they range from the insanely acheivable $80 to the super fancy $225 (with lots of choices in between). Our pirate baby hooded towels at Cost Plus World Market for just $19.99.

Wry Baby may not make diaper bags (YET), but we do make the best darn flair for diaper bags you’ve ever seen. Those pins up in our masthead? Yeah, they’re just the tip of an enormous iceberg of wit and irony that can only come from the funny baby clothes making minds at Wry Baby. We’ve gotten a few emails asking why there are pins seemingly in existence that don’t appear in our packaged sets for Mom and Dad.

We actually make a whole lot more pins that are only available in the bevy of fun boutiques that carry Wry Baby. Next time you’re in your favorite shoppe, look for our big bucket of 300 (YES!) Proud Parent Pins and dig in! Here’s a handy chart showing all that’s available (click it to make it bigger):

Wry Baby’s most plentiful of unique of baby gifts, the Proud Parent Pins, have been featured on the Dallas Morning News, the Mom Salon, the NJ Star Ledger and Parenting Magazine.

Proud Parent Pins make a great baby shower gift and are available en masse in your favorite local gift store or packaged in sets for Mom or Dad online at wrybaby.com for just $9.

Yeah. How’s that for a fine howdy-doo? We at Wry Baby hope you were honored as you deserve. Which means if you took our Wry Baby Pop Quiz, and you suck as a Dad, you got one hot beer and some soggy pork rinds as your comeuppance yesterday.

Okay, Father’s Day is over and all good things must come to an end. Our FREE Dad To-Do Pad give-away came to an end yesterday and to the hordes who took advantage of that awesome offer, “Thanks and well done!”. Of course, the Dad To-Do Pad still makes a great shower gift for Dad and there are a few left over at wrybaby.com. Along with a bevy of other fine funny baby clothes, fun shower gifts and unique baby gifts.

Know at Dad who thinks he’s all that? Click here to get to the Wry Baby Pop Quiz and you can email him an invite from there. Fun, telling and possibly true. And click here to see our other fine funny baby clothes, fun shower gifts and unique baby gifts. The Wry Baby New Dad Pad can still be found here for $11.95.

Actually, it’s not just for Father’s Day anymore because anytime is a great time to see if you’re a perfect Pop! Wry Baby, makers of the world’s best funny baby clothes and unique baby gifts, formulated this quiz using very scientific data to determine your level of Dad-itude. Looking to be a Dad and feel a bit nervous about taking on the responsibility? Take the Wry Baby Pop Quiz. Already a Dad and wonder nightly if you’re really giving it your all? Take the Wry Baby Pop Quiz. Are you’re kids all grown up and paying huge therapy bills? Find out why by taking the Wry Baby Pop Quiz.

The Wry Baby Pop Quiz is one of the fun little Easter eggs you’ll find on the back of our hilarious Dad To-Do Pad. The perfect Father’s Day gift and a great way to harpoon a rookie Dad at the baby shower. Right now we’re giving away FREE Wry Baby Dad To-Do Pads with orders over $50 at wrybaby.com. Get your’s now because the offer ends 6-15-08!

We Wry Baby folk left town for a couple of days after a busy week of making new fun baby gifts and stopped in the charming town of Asheville, NC to grab some lunch. Just as we park the car and climb out, Atticus spots our fun Father’s Day gift, the Dad To-Do Pad in a display window! The store is A Sense of Humor and we stopped in to give a Wry Baby “hello”. If you’re ever in Asheville, look ‘em up!

The Wry Baby Dad To-Do Pad makes an excellent Father’s Day gift as well as a fun baby shower gift for the rookie Dad. Right now Wry Baby’s giving away a FREE Dad To-Do Pad to those who order over $50 at wrybaby.com. There are always great gifts for Dad, Mom and even Baby at wrybaby.com

Hooray! Wry Baby made it into coolmompicks.com’s Father’s Day Gift Guide! Our fun “posterpad” with the long, long title, Hey, Dad! Life As You Know It Is Over! Posterpad was picked by coolmompicks.com as a great Father’s Day gift for the new Dad. This is super special for us for two reasons:

1. We L-O-V-E coolmompicks.com. Always something cool over there. You gots to see.
2. We love the Wry Baby New Dad To-Do pad

The Card to Match: We’re on the fence about cards for dads-to-be. Instead, get him the Dad To-Do list and write him thoughtful note, you know, along with the list of baby gear he needs to assemble. ($11.99 at Wry Baby).

It’s hard to soak in all the details of this fun new Dad gift when you see it online. Basically, the Wry Baby New Dad To-Do Pad is just that; a to-do pad cleverly attached to an oversized hanging backboard. The card is full of great jokes poking fun at “Dad’s Exciting New Life”. In fact, on the back, there’s a comparison in pictures of his life before and after baby. Contrast and compare! This Wry Baby new dad gift is really like and extra special, Father’s Day card. With a funny, useful pad. Get it? Click the back of the posterpad below to see a bigger view.

Right now we’re even having a super Father’s Day Special at wrybaby.com. Order over $50 worth of funny baby clothes, unique baby gifts or fun baby shower gifts and we’ll throw in a Wry Baby New Dad To-Do Pad for FREE! That’s right. Free. I’ll say it one more time in all lowercase: free. Go to Wry Baby now because supplies are limited and the offer ends 6-15-08. You don’t wants to be missing this opportunity to make the New Dad in your life look foolish in front of a crowd this Father’s Day. You are SO mean!

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