Dear CityMommy members and fans,

This past week has been a very exciting time as we have been welcoming you all into our Red Tricycle family. We are so excited to begin work on adding CityMommy into Red Tricycle! In order to bring you the best and most robust offering of upgraded CityMommy features, we are going to be suspending service on the current CityMommy site while we rebuild and expand capabilities on Red Tricycle. The new forums will be integrated into the Red Tricycle website and you will maintain your current account information and archives.

Thank you so much for your continued support. It is our goal not only to build the most valuable parenting resource on the Internet, but to also make your personal experience better by providing the kind of community forum that you all have grown to rely on. Please join the CityMommy Facebook page so that we can keep you updated.

Drea Lester & Jacqui Boland
Red Tricycle

Pita Pit® is the quickest and healthiest spot for breakfast, lunch, dinner or late night dining! If you want to ditch the burgers and subs along with the higher carbs and fat, their soft, healthy pitas are light and tasty and come stuffed with your choice of fresh, tantalizing ingredients. Plus, everything is made to order, sizzling-hot off the grill! You’ll also find salads, soups and all the extras to make it a meal. Delivery and catering available. One taste and you’ll know why Pita Pit is always smiling

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by Kerri Jablonski, CityMommy Seattle

Have you experienced Sprout Organic Baby Food? If you haven’t your baby’s world, and yours is about to change for the good.

I’ll admit, I am not a prepared baby food kind of girl. The rows of jarred, flavorless food in the baby aisle at the local supermarket make me shudder.

Thanks to Tyler Florence, co-founder of Sprout Organic Baby Food, your baby’s first tastes of food don’t have to be bland, but actually quite delicious. Foods that are flavorful and exciting are the best way to encourage healthy eating and nutrition. “Flavor really makes a difference!  Babies have thousands more taste buds at birth than adults, so parents should recognize that babies can appreciate flavor.  Babies can use their first learnings about food to develop a palate that will follow them to adulthood!” (Sprout)

Sprout Organic Baby Food uses organic produce, reducing your babies exposure to pesticides, chemicals and antibiotics. This is so very critical because their bodies are so much smaller than ours. In addition, their pouches are BPA free, so there is no risk of the harmful hormone disrupters leaching into the food!

We’ve had the chance to try out Sprout, and it’s quite tasty. (yes, I took a bite too!) The pouches are easy to toss into my diaper bag when I’m on the go – just in case wherever I am headed out for a meal that isn’t the right choice for Quincy. I also don’t have to worry about glass jars breaking in my bag! Dangerous and messy! No thank you!

She loves it, and who can blame her – the options are outstanding! From the Roasted Apples in the single ingredient Starter packs, which she has long outgrown to the Summer Squash, Yukon Gold Potatoes & Parmesan of the Intermediate stage 2 packs which offer simple combinations and now her personal favorite Multi-Grain Cereal with Fruits and Berries in the stage 3 Advanced meals with texture, Sprout Organic Baby Food covers all the bases.  You can tell by the choices offered from Sprout that Tyler Florence has really put a lot of thought into these naturally delicious recipes.

Next time you are in the baby aisle, grab a few pouches of Sprout instead and experience the difference. You will be glad you did and your baby will too!

This is a sponsored post.

Hello CityMommies!

Here is a note from our new partner, Red Tricycle!

We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with Red Tricycle, a long-time ally and friend of CityMommy. Red Tricycle delivers local parenting news (things to see, eat and do with your kids in your neighborhood), using a team of local writers in each city. Over the next several weeks, the Red Tricycle and CityMommy sites will merge, combining Red Tricycle’s strong editorial voice, original content and loyal readership with CityMommy’s engaged (and totally awesome!) forum and blogger community to deliver a powerful, functional, and truly unique local online parenting experience.

If you haven’t visited Red Tricycle yet, take a look around and tell us what you think. Also, please take this brief, five-question survey about what you love most about CityMommy, and what you’d like to see more (or less) of in your local parenting website.

Ride On!
The Red Tricycle Team

by Mary Ann O’Shea, CityMommy Northeast PA

Are you obsessed with trendy jewerly? Do you scour magazines for all the latest fashion accessory finds? Then you have to check out GirlProps.com GirlProps.com is a family owned and operated company with a jam-packed accessories web site. GirlPROPS sets trends with custom designs, plus they select and feature the coolest items in demand.

Check out their mission statement–I love it! “Our mission is to offer girls of all ages a way to express their inner beauty and truth so they can boldly make a mark on the world as women, as artists, as businesswomen, as activists, as teachers & mentors, as daughters & moms, and as revolutionaries”. As I browse through the pages of necklaces, rings, bracelets, and more, I can see just how important their mission is. They literally have an accessory for any age, any personality, and any fashion sense. You can shop vintage http://www.girlprops.com/a/page1/vintagefinds, 80’s and current trends, and everything in between, all in one place. Makes the perfect gift too—find a piece for the animal lovers, foodies, and even music fans in your life.

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