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Here’s another peek at one of the fun activities from our new book, The Wry Baby New Parents’ Fun Book (Due June 2). One of the sticker activities for the new Mom and Dad is all about baby proofing your stuff. No, not making it “safer”, just marking your territory so Baby will know exactly what’s yours and what’s his/hers. If Baby sees that your new Blu-Ray DVD player is clearly marked with a nice, big “MINE” sticker, perhaps Baby will think twice about filling it with Cheerios. You never know! You laugh now, but later you’ll be thanking Wry Baby.

Another spread from Wry Baby’s New Parents’ Fun Book. Availble for pre-order on amazon.com here.

Here at Wry Baby it’s not all about making the funny baby clothes. It’s all about fun parenting! Our motto is “Raise Funny People” for gosh sakes! Our new book, The New Parents’ Fun Book (available June 2 at wrybaby.com) was off to the presses when we remembered this super fun parenting activity.

Grab your camera and your kid and go find a smashed up car somewhere (wasn’t hard to do when we were in San Francisco). Then pose with it to make it look like you were the tiny, yet super-humanly responsible party! Pictures like these are sure to end any and all bullying that’s occurring at your child’s school and you’ll have a great conversation piece for your desk at the office. If you get any stellar car smashing snaps, send them to Wry Baby at blogger@wrybaby.com. Have fun out there, people!

Also works pretty good with broken windows. But you gotta be CAREFUL, Folks!

You’ll find even more fun parenting ideas in Wry Baby’s new book,
The New Parents’ Fun Book available June 2 at wrybaby.com

Following the success of Safe Baby Handling Tips and Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips, we thought we’d go in a different direction and refresh a traditional baby gift that was in dire need of a face-lift. We’re super excited about the upcoming release of the new Wry Baby book, The New Parents’ Fun Book. It’s scheduled for an early June release (you can pre-order it now here), but we got our samples in early and we wanted to give you a peek at what we’ve been working on the past year here at Wry Baby.

The New Parents’ Fun Book is essentially a reinvention of the baby book. Only instead of jotting down just facts, it offers a fun way to record your baby’s statistics along with lots of information about what the parents were up to during baby’s first year. This is all done through 96 pages of games, puzzles, journal pages and crafts.

Here’s a peek at some of the pages from The New Parents’ Fun Book. We styled it after classic kid activity books from the late 50′s-early 60′s, which is pretty obvious from the intro spread. The Curseword Puzzle consists of words you won’t be able to fling around the house once Junior arrives, and the Daddy’s Favorite pages let Dad fill in his favorite bands, hobbies, movies and TV shows. You can see how the Fun Book will be a hoot to read 20 years from now.

I’ll post more pages from The New Parents’ Fun Book that show off some of the bonus spreads including stickers, a book-within-a-book and a portable Pop!

Pre-Order Wry Baby’s New Parents’ Fun Book at amazon.com for only $10.36 (ships June 2, 2008)

A couple of months ago, someone scanned our entire first book, Safe Baby Handling Tips, and posted it to the internets with the title Do’s and Don’ts with Babies. Next thing you know Wry Baby is #1 on Reddits Hot List. The bad news? The whoever originally posted it didn’t give us any credit or call out any info on Safe Baby Handling Tips. Now it’s Safe Baby Pregnancy TIps‘ turn on Reddit’s Hot List. Holy cats!

As of this posting, scenes from Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips are hovering at #41 and are titled Doing Pregnancy Wrong. Have to say, the feedback for both Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips AND Safe Baby Handling Tips is great. A big, fat, Wry Baby thanks to our fun fans out there who alert us to stuff like this. As always, Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips and Safe Baby Handling Tips are available for sale at Wry Baby. And they’re only $10 each for gosh sakes!

Wry Baby’s Safe Baby Pregnancy TIps just $9.95 at wrybaby.com and find
Wry Baby’s Safe Baby Handling Tips for just $9.95 at wrybaby.com

Pre-Order Wry Baby’s New Parents’ Fun Book at amazon.com for only $10.36 (ships June 2, 2008)

Kelly and I are really excited to add another Wry Baby book to our arsenal of fun shower gifts! Following on the heels of Safe Baby Handling Tips and Safe Baby Pregnancy Tips, it’s The New Parents’ Fun Book and it’s available for pre-order now! We got our samples in this week and the Fun Book looks great. At 96 pages, it’s our favorite Wry Baby baby gift yet. Basically, it’s a reinvention of the classic baby book. The Wry Baby New Parents’ Fun Book is chock full of games, puzzles, stickers, journal pages, crafts…heck, it’s even got a board game for new parents to play!

Our goal was to make a fun baby book that BOTH parents would have fun filling out together and to make it fun enough that it got filled out completely. In the end, you have a Wry Baby baby keepsake that your child will have a blast reading when they’re older.

We’ll be posting some sneak peeks of what’s inside The New Parents’ Fun Book so y’alls can check it out. And if you want to pre-order The New Parents’ Fun Book, you can do so at amazon.com. We’ll have it in stock at the official Wry Baby website, www.wrybaby.com, in early June.

Pre-Order Wry Baby’s New Parents’ Fun Book at amazon.com for only $10.36 (ships June 2, 2008)