the Wry Baby Blog

I must have died and drifted off to heaven last night because when I awoke this morning, I saw that not only were our Attack of the 50ft. Baby Stacking Blocks featured on BoingBoing.net, but my illustrations were likened to those of Mad Magazine’s “marginal” genius, Sergio Aragones! OMG. Please send money in lieu of funerary flowers to the Sopp estate, Mooresville, NC.

Of course, our fun blocks are available from your presumably deceased pal, wrybabydave here for $28

It’s been a week of hot press leading up to the big New York International Gift Fair and the launching of Wry Baby’s new Spring line. Funny thing is, all the press is about the fun baby gifts we already made. The Insider picked up our Super Snapsuits, Super Cute(for girls) and I’m Super(for boys). The Celebrity Baby Blog tells us Tori Spelling, Salma Hayek, Liam Aaron McDermott and Valentina Paloma Pinault are all super fans of Wry Baby’s Super Snapsuits and The Insider picked it up. Whether you’re a super star baby or just hiding behind your secret identity for a bit, every baby deserves to be Super, don’t you think?

Wry Baby’s Super Snapsuits are available at these hip boutiques or online at wrybaby.com for $30.

The Chicago Daily Herald was kind enough to include our fun baby outfit, Tiny Democrat, as one of their Obama Inauguration must-haves. Funny she didn’t mention that Teeny Republican is also available! LOL. Actually, did you know that our Teeny Republican actually OUTSELLS the Tiny Democrat? Well, at the current sale price of $14 at wrybaby.com, maybe we can change that! Inauguration Celebration sale ends Jan. 31, 2009.

Earnshaw’s magazine is the baby biz’s bellwether for what’s new, fun and cool in the land of baby clothes and cool baby shower gifts. We at Wry Baby were extra excited to see that Angela Velasquez included our fun baby blanket/hat combo, “You Wake Me, You Take Me” in her PAMPERED section. Thanks, Angela!

You can find this fun baby shower gift at wrybaby.com for $34 or pick one up at any of our fun stores around the globe!

We were lucky to have the New Year bring us some ink from our local Lake Norman Magazine! Sam Boykin was kind enough to include us in his article on local baby clothes entrepreneurs and gave a great run-down of how Wry Baby started, why we moved to Mooresville, NC and where we’re goin’ next (product-wise, of course).

Click here to read the full article online.

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

Hey, the funny political gear we did exclusively for Barneys NY got a little ink in the Style Section of the NY Times this week! Our popular political bibs may be out of stock on wrybaby.com, but Barneys NY has some left! Our favorite, “VETO VEGGIES” went fast over at wrybaby.com, so get thee to Barneys if you want to snap one up. Because, like our retirement accounts, when they’re gone, they’re gone for good!

As Ellen Tien writes in NY Times’ PULSE: Purple may be the color of the season, but in the weeks before Election Day, there’s no shortage of red, white and blue. Clothing and jewelry designers are intent on making their own fashionable political statements, be they general exhortations to vote or support for specific candidates. Here are several pieces that seem to be winning the popular vote.

We’re the first slide, too! Yay! But get a load of the second slide. Kinda flippin’ amazing.

Last Summer, at the New York International Gift Fair, a video crew from Gifts.com popped into our booth to do a bit on our super-fun Super Snapsuits for the Gifts.com site. So with lights glaring and surrounded by our fun trade show neighbors (who were merciless with their distracting antics, thankyouverymuch), we shot this little press promo for our Super Snapsuit. While painful in the extreme for me to watch (I’m terrible!), it may be fun for you to sit through. But only if you have plenty of adult beverages on hand and if you take a big, long drink every time I say “zoom” or “zooming“. Hey, I was making it up on the fly (so to speak)!

The Wry Baby Super Snapsuit comes in both Boy and Girl flavors and is available at wrybaby.com for the super sum of just $30. An hilarious gift and a treat to bring to any mommy group or doctor check-up. See more of Wry Baby’s unique baby gifts and funny baby clothes at wrybaby.com

Wry Baby’s Wheel of Responsibility was given a whole giant page all to it’s lonesome in the June issue of Pregnancy & Newborn Magazine! Wooo! Wooo! Wooo!

And The Winner Is…Tired of fighting over whoese turn it is to change that dirty diaper or roll out of bed for the midnight feeding? Argue no more with this nifty little tool-simply spin the wheel and let fate decide who loses this round. (and if we find a way to make it permanently land on “Dad”, we’ll let you know…)

OMG. Everyone wants it to land on Dad! When we do the big, fat New York International Gift Fair, that’s the main point of discussion with visitors to the Wry Baby booth. We’ve considered everything from simple rigging with tape to complex magnetic systems like they use on roulette wheels in Monte Carlo.

While we’ve resisted the temptation for all Dad-kind, we did tilt the odds in Moms favor on the cover of our best-selling Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips. Off all 8 pies, only one is labeled “Mom”. Happy spinning!

The Wheel of Responsibility makes a great baby shower gift. Just $11.95 at wrybaby.com.

Wry Baby’s much passed-around-the-internets Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips is available at wrybaby.com for just $9.95.