Check out Mazzy in front of her first step and repeat. Does this mean she's made it? I'm gonna do my best to refrain from becoming the next Kris Jenner but CHECK OUT THAT TUMMY— I think Mazzy's belly might have the star-launching capacity of Kim Kardashian's ass.
Below is more of Mazzy and me at a Simon & Schuster event. (Keep in mind this was all five seconds before Mazzy decided to lean against the step and repeat causing the whole facade to tumble backwards taking her with it. The photographer, a wonderfully professional woman named Jennifer Lee, ran to save my daughter while I stood there screaming in my head— NOOOOOO!!! Take pictures!! Take pictures!!!)
Wait! I should totally have stolen that step and repeat for Mazzy's birthday party!! Is it just me or did I alienate half my readers with my NYC birthday party post? It was SUPPOSED to be an amusing list of things you can do at a birthday party that don't take up a lot of space. You know, so NYC parents can entertain in their tiny but FREE apartment instead of shelling out $1100 for an alternative venue.
But I'll stop being defensive. I know we New Yorkers are ridiculous. And as a general rule, we glom on to any excuse to throw a party. Witness my Catholic stepmother and her enthusiastic adoption of break fast on Yom Kippur— it's a dinner party with a built-in theme!
Honestly, I think I'm having trouble finding my footing after Monday's big Evil Baby Glare-Off Reveal. Bear with me, friends. MSPG (Mommy Shorts Post Glare) is going to require a bit of adjustment.
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My Little Pony Giveaway
You may have noticed that the My Little Pony App is one of my advertisers this month. The app is an interactive storybook designed to develop vocabulary, reading and motor skills for kids 2-11. It includes narrative-driven activities and touch-driven animations with adjustable levels of difficulty.
I tried the app with Mazzy and I must say, My Little Pony is way different than I remember as a kid. For instance, the ponies now look like supercool Japanese anime. When did that happen?? Probably about the same time Twilight Sparkle and the ponies of Equestria developed a cult following of fanboys known as BRONIES.
Never heard of BRONIES? They are adult male diehard fans of My Little Pony. Weird, I know. But then I read this article on Wired and it opened my mind a bit.
Is the new My Little Pony just THAT COOL that it attracts genuine crossover extreme fandom? I might have to explore this further in a future post.
Anyway, for all you Non-Brony My Little Pony fans, I am giving away TEN APPS in the comment section below. I'll select the winners randomly on Sunday night.
Otherwise, you can buy it for $3.99 on iTunes.
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Is It Halloween Already?
I'm guest posting over at By Word of Mouth to kick off the lovely Nicole's Howlerific Halloween Series. I'm talking about laziness in relation to getting Mazzy a costume this year.
Thankfully, writing the post got me inspired and off my ass so Mazzy will not, I repeat WILL NOT, be wearing a store bought Elmo costume from Duane Reade.
Even though, I'm pretty sure it would MAKE her 22 month old life.
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The Colossal Cake Smash Smackdown
It's happening. I don't have the details ironed out yet but I can tell you three things:
1) I am now taking cake smash photo submissions on the Mommy Shorts Facebook Fanpage.
2) There will be prizes.
3) The winners will be announced on Mazzy's 2nd birthday which is December 9th.
Here is Emerson, one of the first contenders:
Have a great weekend and feel free to smash a piece of cake in your kid's face for the contest!
— Mommy Shorts
PS: Remember to leave a comment if you'd like a free My Little Pony app.
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UPDATE: The winners of the My Little Pony app are Alison @ Mama Wants This, Robin, Meg Yaniglos, Ninja Mom, Kristin, Jo Chivers, Denis, Andrew Riley, Jrseygirl in VA and Rhiannon. Please email me at myshort@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize.
Mazzy is a star, I love her pictures!
You did set the bar pretty damn high with the sushi outfit!
Oops, clicked post too soon.
I on the other hand have set the bar impressively low…nowhere to go but up 😉
http://no-one-thing.blogspot.com/2011/10/october.html
Woohoo! I’ve been wanting to have a good reason to buy cake and thanks to the Cake Smash Smackdown I have an excuse to buy dozens of cakes…oh yeah, that and my son’s 2nd birthday in 2 weeks. Woops.
What a cute cake picture! You have been so busy!
LOVE the photos of Mazzy, what a star!
I have fallen victim to the costume procrastination fairy this year. My oldest wanted a Sleeping Beauty costume so of course I designed one that was hideously complicated, then haven’t done much else. The boy got a Carter’s Dinosaur outfit from Costco because I’ve literally given up.
I don’t often comment, but I just have to say that you always make me laugh. I love your point of view and how you see humor in everything.
Thank you! I take life way to seriously sometimes.
I love how Mazzy’s being coy with the belly-love. Jennifer Lee was fantastic, wasn’t she? I love the photos I got, too!
so am i crazy for coming up with a matching costume for myself for halloween??? i haven’t dressed up since i was 20, 11 years ago, and am pathetically super excited about it. perhaps you should have a contest for mommy/daddy/baby/kid best costume…just sayin’ 🙂 by the way, i CAN’T wait to see what you have come up with this year for Mazzy, i LOVED the sushi costume!
I want that app. And now, also cake.
I have lots of cake smash pics. Lots! But are they on the dead laptop that my son destroyed? For you, I’ll make inquiries.
I dare someone to beat my kids first birthday cake pics!
Mazzy is so adorable!
I’d love to win a My Little Pony app for my daughters to play on my iPhone! I’ve heard about “bronies” before and kind of thought it was weird, but then I realized both of my girls, ages 2 and 3, LOVE Spiderman! I guess it could be about the same, so it’s not so weird? Maybe? haha
love to come up with a clever comment, but in reality I want the My Little Pony app for Mo and Flo! My kids love, love, love this show to the point where my irritation with it is becoming proportionate to their devotion! Perhaps I should suck it up and buy it for them #cheapskatemom!
My daughter would LOVE the My Little Pony app. I too thought it was weird they look so different than when I was a kid 🙂
I’m a brony and proud! ^.^ I guess a lot of what makes men over the age of 15 love the show so much is that it’s just genuine. These days television shows have just lost their way, don’t even get me started on what Cartoon Network has turned into. My Little Pony is the freshest and most creative show I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t matter that the show is aimed toward younger audiences, it’s still completely enjoyable by the older ones. I’ve got to say that the brony community is also one of the most creative communities out there. You should see EquestriaDaily
would love that app. i loved your pics with Mazzy! So cute!
my little who????? yes please! I still have about 10 of those things in a stable carrying case for when my twin ladies are old enough to not want to eat them…aw to be 11 months again =)
My just 3 year old daughter lurves…..(oh how I dislike that word) My Little Pony, and if truth be told I think my 6 year old son is a Bronie in the making. He started watching it before she got into it. LOL
My 2 little ones were never into cake smashing but then again I also usually just gave them cupcakes on their first birthday. Little Miss Adventure licked her frosting off and said she didn’t like the cake and my wonderful DH just videoed them eating it, no pics to send, except after pics but I guess they don’t count.
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No wonder Mazzy is so darned adorable, mom is gorgeous herself! By the way, what does step and repeat mean? For those like me who don’t have a clue…
No you did not alienate us, well me anyhow, with the party post. No big deal, just a discussion among friends! In the end, how anyone else lives their life or celebrates a birthday is up to them, not me! Just expressing an opinion so don’t take it personally.
I don’t need any apps, no one here watches My Little Pony (that I know of!) so please choose another lucky
winner should I happen to win, k? Thanks. LOL
For years, I made my kids and then my grandkids costumes. In the beginning, I couldn’t afford store bought and then I realised that the store boughts are cheesy and badly made or way too expensive, and it was more fun to create your own. My grandkids have re-worn their mom’s and uncle’s costumes that I made twenty years ago so that’s cool. My daughter took over the task about three years ago so I (sigh) have been replaced. Last year my granddaughter was Mario (she played Mario Cart a lot), she was so cute mustache and all!
Regarding Birthday cake smashing…ummmmmm, how old does the picture/kid have to be? LOL Mine is now 29, so the photo is 28 years old and omg I absolutely love it, plus he was a long haired, adorable kid, you know. Not that I’m biased or anything.
🙂
Ohhh, Lotte LOOOOOOOVES My Little Pony, as in, we own every episode that was available on itunes. (I kind of love it, too.)
I have THREE bronies here, ages 3 (today!), nearly 7, and 37! We’d love an app! ^_^
(And I think Ponies have gotten far cooler since undergoing the PowerPuff treatment. The stories have some real depth.)
I dont want the app (no smart phone, I know crazy), and I also wont be sharing a cake smash photo because my little guys first birthday is december 9th so he wont have cake before then. I may do a cake smash session around the first of december but im sure your deadline for receiving them will be sooner then that…but if not-let me know! 🙂
we love my little pony! dvr is full of episodes…
I know. It will be the death of me.
Happy 2nd birthday to your son! May his cake smash be deliciously messy.
I can’t imagine how you handle more than one Halloween costume. That’s when you teach them how to sew themselves.
Or how to drive to Costco.
Thank you! So nice to hear. Here’s my motto: If things go well, GREAT! If things go poorly? Much funnier blog post.
WIN WIN!
She was awesome. Besides missing the “Mazzy makes the step and repeat fall” money shot.
It’s not gonna beat the sushi costume. But Mazzy will like it which is important, right?
I’m definitely going to do a Halloween fan photo album so I’m very excited to see your mommy/baby costume.
I will pray for your laptop. And all laptops with baby pictures on them. Including mine.
Did you submit it? What’s your kid’s name?
I guess it’s nice when things cross gender lines, right? Everybody should be entitled to like a pink pony with purple hair.
And as a bonus, you can stick earphones in the iPad!
I did not realize they had an overhaul until I got the app. Apparently they were redesigned by the same woman who illustrated the Powerpuff Girls.
Is that a Brony emoticon? I will definitely check out Equestria Daily. I looked at a bit of the fan stuff yesterday and I must say— you guys dedicate a lot of time to this stuff!
That sounds like some serious My Little Pony devotion. Good luck!
Mazzy gave the most disappointing cake smash last year. She was way too dainty about it and barely got it on her face. How my child was born without proper 1st birthday cake protocol is beyond me.
A step and repeat is what they call the wall of logos behind us in the picture. I didn’t know that either until a few months ago when I posted a picture of me in front of a wall of Degree logos and asked when exactly it became a thing that a wall of Degree logos meant a photo opportunity at a fabulous party? Everyone responded that it was a step and repeat. Well that explains it!
Nothing would make me happier than a picture of a cake smash 28 years ago:)
Our kids have the same birthday!
You can submit photos up until December 9th but the earlier you get them in, the more you’ll have a chance of winning. I’m going to do a winner a week starting Nov 11th up until the big showdown on December 9th.
I’d love to get the app! My kids love the show, and to be honest, so do I. Those ponies are just too adorable. And the songs are surprisingly catchy for a cartoon show, I can not get “winter wrap up” out of my head!
By the way, the bronies have their own web page:
http://bronies.memebase.com/
But you’ve got to know the episodes and not mind a few curse words to enjoy it.
If people have made that Dance Moms or Toddlers in Tiaras show hits, then surely your audience can tolerate a wee little post about NYC birthday madness. Don’t second guess it, mama. I think it’s fun to read about the lives of those without access to 20 drive-thrus in a 1 mile radius.
That sweet adorable Mazzy is going places…that’s for sure!
Oh gosh yes, there are thousands of fan art images, and tons of pages of fan fiction even. We’re pretty unstoppable
Eh that’s more of the internet humor way. The real brony website is EquestriaDaily.com They keep it clean and innocent and just has a really nice atmosphere. The website you posted is actually a sector of another website called memebase, which can have some pretty ugly stuff, but seeing as how a lot of bronies also go on the internet, My Little Pony and internet humor combined
Love the jeans she’s wearing, I know she’s a fashion icon for my 3 year old!