Mama Drama: Potty Training On The Go
September 3, 2010 – 7:00 am | No Comment

Dear Mama Drama:
My two year old is potty training and has moved into wearing “big girl panties.” I am freaked out about taking her out of the house because I’m afraid she’ll have an accident and will become too discouraged. How can I take her out and help her to be successful?
~ Stuck in the [...]

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Weekly event roundup: A Taste, Tarantulas, Balloon Festival
September 1, 2010 – 12:21 pm | No Comment

Today-Monday. Downtown Denver will be extra delicious this holiday weekend as A Taste of Colorado takes over Civic Center Park. The four-day feast features chow from more than 50 Colorado restaurants, dishing up everything from tacos to falafel to fondue. The Taste is about more than food, though: Live entertainment, arts-and-crafts vendors and a [...]

Labor Day Best Bet for Kids: Taste of Colorado’s New Line-up!
August 29, 2010 – 7:57 am | Comments Off
Labor Day Best Bet for Kids: Taste of Colorado’s New Line-up!

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, A Taste of Colorado will be held over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 3 – Sept. 6, in Civic Center Park of Downtown Denver and includes FREE admission.
In addition to the always-delicious food booths, there will be plenty of music, magic, clowns and puppets on the [...]

Legend of the Tarantula opens Labor Day weekend at the Butterfly Pavilion (win 6 tickets!)
August 28, 2010 – 12:00 am | Comments Off
Legend of the Tarantula opens Labor Day weekend at the Butterfly Pavilion (win 6 tickets!)

The Butterfly Pavilion’s famed tarantula Rosie has some competition.
Venture into the world of the tarantula at the Butterfly Pavilion during the world premiere of their new exhibit, Legend of Tarantula, starting Labor Day weekend.
Discover how these versatile arachnids go far beyond the dangerous, scary image given to them by Hollywood, and learn the true value [...]

R Baby raises money to save babies’ lives. Walk with us!
August 26, 2010 – 6:30 am | One Comment
R Baby raises money to save babies’ lives. Walk with us!

Lots of mothers will tell you their lives changed forever the day their child was born. That was true for me, too, but then just nine days later, my life changed again.
That was the day my daughter died.
I didn’t expect to get pregnant. After years of being told my husband, Dan, and I could not [...]

Weekly Event Round-up: Peach Festival, Kid Carnival at Bohemian Nights & More!
August 18, 2010 – 1:27 pm | Comments Off
Weekly Event Round-up: Peach Festival, Kid Carnival at Bohemian Nights & More!

Saturday. Lafayette will be rolling in peaches during the 2010 Peach Festival. The day-long celebration salutes one of Colorado’s sweetest cash crops, the juicy peach, with peach pies, peach smoothies, peach cobblers and more. More than 30,000 pounds of fresh peaches will be trucked in from Palisade, too. Snag one and settle in for live [...]

The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Celebrates Grand Opening Week
August 17, 2010 – 2:00 pm | Comments Off
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Celebrates Grand Opening Week

Denver’s kids just got healthier!
The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (RMHC), HealthONE’s “pediatric hospital within a hospital,” will mark the grand opening of a campus expansion at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center Aug. 19-22 and will begin treating patients Aug. 31. Grand Opening activities include:
Kaleidoscope Ball: Through the Eyes of a Child
What: The Kaleidoscope Ball is [...]

$4 million kids attraction debuts in Denver!
August 16, 2010 – 9:29 am | Comments Off
$4 million kids attraction debuts in Denver!

Denver Botanic Gardens is now the home of a $4 million garden designed for children.
Janet Mordecai, through the Daniel and Janet Mordecai Foundation, donated the funds for a 3-acre exploring garden, and before construction began, she went on a nationwide tour of children’s gardens.
“She would say, ‘The kids like this, but not this,’ and then [...]