Ava Jackman Gets Dipped by Dad

Vince Flores/Celebrity Photo Hugh Jackman may have been the star at his hand and footprint ceremony outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, but daughter Ava Eliot was certainly the center of his attention! The X-Men: Origins star dipped his 3 ½-year-old on the red carpet while wife Deborra-Lee Furness and son Oscar Maximillian watched. Catch [...]

Soleil Moon Frye Finds a Twitter Pal in Daughter Poet

Greenworlo/Monterotti/Pacific Coast News A self-proclaimed Twitter addict, Soleil Moon Frye can be found updating her life all throughout her day. While the busy mama — she runs her own store The Little Seed — often lets her followers in on her busy schedule, she tells Blah Girls that the new found addiction does not take away from her [...]

Graco Quattro Tour Travel System

Quattro Tour Deluxe Travel System in Deco The Quattro Tour Travel System ($250-270) is part of Graco’s vast range of safe and affordable baby gear. The travel systems include a full-featured stroller and matching SnugRide infant car seat. We bought the SnugRide for our first son four years ago and relied on it for both boys. I [...]

Melissa Joan Hart Will Keep Going Until She Gets a Girl

Landov Many women feel that the demands of motherhood are unparalleled, and Melissa Joan Hart is no exception. The 33-year-old actress notes in a new interview with OK! that having worked since she was four, she’s in a unique position to know. “I’ve had every kind of job,” she explains. “I’ve worked every kind of [...]

Brad and Kimberly Williams-Paisley Welcome Second Son

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic It’s another boy for country singer Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley! The couple welcomed a second son this morning, Friday, April 17th, in Nashville, Tenn. A name and further details were not released. Brad and Kimberly, 37, announced their pregnancy in October, saying they were “thrilled” to be giving 2-year-old son William [...]

Brooke Shields Gives Grier a Kiss

INF Coffee in hand, Brooke Shields plants one on daughter Grier Hammond’s forehead as she rests on mom’s shoulder after a walk in the park with family friends on Saturday. The little one will be turning three this coming weekend! Joining the pair was dad Chris Henchy and big sister Rowan Francis, who will be six [...]

Survivalist Bear Grylls Offers Tips for Surviving a Homebirth

Brian Ach/WireImage As the host of Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls is used to testing his limits. But his skills as a husband were truly put to the test when wife Shara decided to deliver the couple’s third son, 3-month-old Huckleberry Edward Jocelyne, on the couple’s houseboat. In a story for the April 2009 issue of [...]

Josh Holloway and Wife Welcome Daughter Java Kumala

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Lost star Josh Holloway is a proud new papa! Wife Yessica delivered the couple’s first child — a daughter named Java Kumala Holloway – on April 9 in Oahu, where the hit show is filmed. A source close to the 39-year-old actor confirmed the news exclusively to PEOPLE, adding: “Dad and mom are absolutely thrilled. Everyone’s [...]

Life Imitates Art for Rob Bogue and Mandy Bruno

George De Sota/JPI/CBS Work imitated life for actors Rob Bogue and Mandy Bruno when the pair fell in love on the set of Guiding Light and became engaged to be married. Now, their characters are officially parents and Soap Opera Digest wanted to know if that was a sign of things to come for the couple. [...]

It’s Hip Hop Baby: Using Music and Rhyme to Teach Children

My 3-year-old has always been really into music (what kid isn’t?) but trying to find something that holds her attention these days seems impossible. It’s Hip Hop Baby!, a new children’s DVD series aimed at toddlers and pre-schoolers, certainly does hold her attention. Beyond that it also teaches her key developmental concepts while causing her [...]

CBB Poll: What Are Your Summer Stroller Accessory Must-Haves?

Warmer weather means longer outdoor strolls with baby. Sun protection is key but what about comforts for mom and dad like a place to hold your iced coffee or a tray for baby’s snacks? What summer stroller accessories do you consider must-haves? Which one is the most important for you? Join Our Panel! Would you be interested [...]

Newborn Brooks Firestone is the ‘Ultimate College Partier’

Eric Charbonneau/WireImage Former Bachelor star Andrew Firestone has discovered an interesting guy that he refers to as “the ultimate college partier” — unfortunately, that person is his 2½-week-old son, Adam Brooks! Andrew explains that Brooks, as he and wife Ivana call him, is “up all night making funny little noises, and then all day he’s just passed [...]

Check Out CBB’s Guide to Green Living!

Diane Bondareff/Startraks Earth Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by taking time to think about the way we care for our planet? We’ve done just that, and here, present our first-ever CBB Guide to Green Living. We’ve put together some stories and photo galleries that feature celebrities “going [...]

Graco Quattro Tour Stroller: Back To Basics Is Sometimes Best

Graco Quattro Tour Deluxe in Portica The Quattro Tour Stroller ($150-190) is Graco’s top-selling full-featured stroller and we figured it was about time we formally reviewed it! Assembly and Fold I was able to assemble the Quattro Tour stroller in about 10 minutes, though it did require me to get pliers out to put the axle pins in. [...]

Melora Hardin Keeps Daughters Busy Without TV

Juan Rico/Fame Most young girls would move heaven and earth to meet Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron, but 4-year-old Rory Melora Jackson and 7-year-old Piper Quincy Jackson recently had the opportunity to do just that and no special effort was needed. That’s because their mom, actress Melora Hardin, 41,  just so happens to be co-starring with the [...]

Nicole Richie’s Short Cut

Most Wanted Expectant mama Nicole Richie sports a pair of super short shorts on Tuesday after visiting a nail salon in Beverly Hills. Currently pregnant with her second child, due in late August/early September, the former reality star recently made an appearance with partner Joel Madden in Zac Efron’s Funny or Die video, which debuted on [...]

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. Expecting First Child

Alex Berliner/Berliner Studio/BEImages Gone are her nights spent battling vampires … on the horizon are midnight feedings! Former Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar and her husband, actor Freddie Prinze Jr. are expecting their first child, a source reveals to PEOPLE. Sharing that the baby is due this fall, the source says that the couple are “very excited” [...]

E!’s Kristin Dos Santos Welcomes a Son

Kevin Parry/WireImage If you guessed that E!’s Kristin Dos Santos was going to have a little boy, you are correct! The Watch with Kristin columnist and her husband João Dos Santos welcomed a son at 5:03 a.m. on Sunday, April 5th after labor began on Kristin’s due date of April 4th. The little boy, [...]

Cheap Baby Furniture

The necessity of getting baby furniture can become a knotty problem for a young family. Thus many parents who face a task of choosing the right baby furniture and it make them nervous. But it is too early to panic. The idea of getting a used piece of furniture shouldn't make you worried. Hand-me-down furniture can become a great way out, because cheap baby furniture can still be attractive, good quality and safe for your little one.

Keisha Castle-Hughes Struggles With Latest Role

Juan Rico/Fame Portraying a young mother on-screen is no stretch for Keisha Castle-Hughes, who welcomed her first child – Felicity-Amore, turning two this month – at the age of 17. That’s where the similarities end for the now 19-year-old actress and her character in Piece of My Heart, however. In the made-for-tv film, unmarried pregnant women are forced to [...]

Keith Urban on the Most Joyous Day of All

KCS Presse/Splash News Online When Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman decided on the name Sunday Rose for their baby girl, they were hoping for any day of the week but Sunday one for her big debut. “We didn’t want her to be born on a Sunday, because people would think [that was the reason for her [...]

Stephen Joseph Bottle Buddies: Even Water Bottles Can Be Cute

Stephen Joseph’s Bottle Buddies ($7) are a perfect fit for a plastic or reusable water bottle and kids can carry their own. They come in more than 20 styles and each has dangly legs, arms, wings or even a lion’s mane. Four new ones include a mermaid, a pirate, a flower and a dancing hippo. They’re totally [...]

Vin Diesel Dishes On Daughter’s Delivery Day

Kathryn Indiek/GLOBE When asked about their bundle of joy, many first-time fathers pull out the wallet pictures and are armed with stories to match; New dad Vin Diesel, however, prefers to let his 1-year-old daughter Hania Riley’s angelic presence speak for itself. “Anything that I say could just fall into the proud father category, but if [...]

Jessica Alba’s Canyon Cutie

Juan Carlos/Ramey Back in Beverly Hills after last weekend’s NYC sojourn, Jessica Alba and daughter Honor Marie hit up one of their favorite mommy-daughter hotspots — Coldwater Canyon Park — on Wednesday morning. See more of Honor, 9 ½ months, in her family’s photo album! Honor wears Pediped Zoe’s in Metallic Pink ($32). Posted in Babies, Celeb Style, Main [...]

Suri Cruise: Pretty in Pink!

Most Wanted And ruffles too! Suri Cruise, who turns 3 on April 18th, holds Katie Holmes‘ hand Wednesday as the pair visited the American Girl doll store at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. Later, Suri munched on one of her flip-flops while nestled in mom’s arms! Suri wears Juicy Couture’s Ruffled Silk Dress ($109). A second [...]

Reese Witherspoon Bracing For Deacon’s Transition to Kindergarten

Reuters/Landov Like most moms Reese Witherspoon has mixed emotions when she thinks about her youngest child moving on to kindergarten. As 5-year-old Deacon Reese looks forward to the transition this fall – informing his mom “I’m done with preschool” — Reese is not quite as enthusiastic. “I’m so upset,” she admitted last Wednesday on Live with Regis [...]

Virginia Madsen: ‘I Love My Boy, But I Like My Teenager’

Mark Sullivan/WireImage As a single mom raising a teenaged son, Virginia Madsen has heard it all; And while many have cautioned her about the tumultuous years ahead it certainly hasn’t been her experience thus far with 14-year-old Jack. “I like to get advice, but I also know a lot of people who really like their teenagers,” [...]

Want to Potty Train? Things to Look For in Your Child

How can you tell if your child is ready to potty train? Some children are ready to potty train starting between 18-24 months while as other kids may not be ready until they are two and a half or three. Well as a first time parent you really have no clue what you are doing just yet or what signs to look for so here are some helpful hints to help you get rid of expensive diapers.

Jerry O’Connell: The Twins Are Going to ‘Walk All Over Me!’

Star Pix/INF New father Jerry O’Connell may very well find himself eating his words in the near future! In an interview before welcoming his fraternal twin daughters, Jerry protectively proclaimed he would only allow Charlie Tamara Tulip and Dolly Rebecca Rose to date men of high standing; Now it seems that he may have spoken too [...]

Carson Daly Strolls With His Son

Limelight Late-night talk show host Carson Daly took 2-week-old son Jackson James for a walk in his Santa Monica, Calif., neighborhood on Saturday. Carson and longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter welcomed their baby boy on March 15th. Carson’s sister is also expecting a baby — it’s a family baby boom! Jackson rides in a Graco Snugride Infant Carrier [...]

Kiyan Anthony and Shayla Gibson’s Park Playdate!

Jen Lowery/Startraks It’s twice the fun! Model/singer/actor Tyrese Gibson and daughter Shayla Somer met up with Charm School host Lala Vasquez and son Kiyan Carmelo last week for an afternoon of kid-themed fun in Beverly Hills. After Lala and Kiyan, 2, did some shopping at Kitson Kids, they joined Tyrese and Shayla, 20 months, at a [...]

Tim Allen Welcomes Daughter Elizabeth

Andy Fossum/Startraks It’s a girl for the former Tool Time host! Actor Tim Allen and his wife Jane welcomed their first child together on Saturday, March 29th in Los Angeles, they reveal to Entertainment Tonight. Daughter Elizabeth weighed 5 lbs, 3 oz. A statement released to announce baby girl’s arrival reads, “The couple is thrilled at the [...]

William H. Macy On His Future Teenagers: ‘I’m Shaking In My Boots!’

Anna Pocaro/London Entertainment/Splash News Online Despite his days as a self-proclaimed “stealth” in high school, actor William H. Macy dreads the day he finds himself watching his two daughters walk through the doors and into their freshmen year. While there is no stopping the arrival of that momentous day — “I’m shaking in my boots thinking [...]

Wayne and Maile Brady Flash Their Pearly Whites

Tiffany Rose/WireImage Their outfits match — and so do their smiles! Funnyman Wayne Brady hit the red carpet with daughter Maile Masako, 6, on Wednesday at Melanie Segal’s Kids’ Choice Awards Lounge, presented by Stouffer’s, at The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. For every celebrity in attendance, Stouffer’s donated 1,000 meals to the city’s needy families, [...]

Yo Gabba Gabba! Books

Sometimes you turn on the children’s TV then tune it out completely. Sometimes the kid’s TV pulls you into the room no matter what you were trying to accomplish while the kids were transfixed. Yo Gabba Gabba is that kind of show. Silly, random, and funky as all get out, it’s a bright cheerful ode [...]

Ali Landry Explains Decision to Hire a Live-In Nanny

Most Wanted Pictures All working moms have to tackle the issue of childcare at some point, and celebrity working moms are no exception. They have more resources at their disposal, however, and Ali Landry counts herself lucky to be able to afford a live-in nanny named Felicitas. “We are so grateful that it is within our budget,” Ali [...]

Kara Janx Expecting Second Child, a Boy

Bryan Bedder/Getty After winning the second annual International Design Awards for sportswear, former Project Runway contestant Kara Janx will unfortunately be a no-show at the ceremony in Los Angeles. Her absence however, is with good reason! “I’m like seven months pregnant,” she tells Project Rungay. The 32-year-old designer is due in June and reveals that baby-on-the-way [...]

Choosing Safe and Trusted Stair and Safety Gates

Keeping children safe is the prime consideration in every parent's mind. This is why choosing the right products like safe and trusted stair gates needs to be done with care. Just because something is being marketed for children does not mean that it is safe and dependable. Parents should know that there are some tips to keep in mind to make selections of safety stair gates and other child protection devices an easy and worry free process.

Jessica and Honor’s Mommy and Me Date

Rachpoot/INF Honor Marie Warren holds tight to mom Jessica Alba as they leave their Music Together class on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. We recently caught Honor, 9 months, sharing a laugh with dad Cash Warren! She’s the first child for actress Jessica and her producer husband. See more photos of the family in their just-updated gallery, [...]

Lance Armstrong Racing Against Time

Flynet As he prepares for the upcoming Giro d’Italia in May, Lance Armstrong knows that his efforts could all be in vain. With girlfriend Anna Hansen expecting the couple’s first child together — Lance’s fourth child overall — in early June, the 37-year-old cyclist hints that he’ll abandon the race if it appears that baby-on-the-way is [...]

How to Control My Terrible Two Year Old

Let me guess...You have a sneaking suspicion that aliens swiped your child at some point after their second birthday. They then had the nerve to replace your happy baby with this often demon possessed toddler that hears the word no and goes into screaming convulsions. Do I give an accurate account of your situation or do I exaggerate? Read on my Google searching friend I have a idea or two that might just help you out.

Marcia Cross Considers the ‘Old Cliché’ of Motherhood To Be True

Flynet The “old cliché” of mothers beaming with pride as they discover their children “just are who they are” is one that is ringing true for Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross. With her fraternal twin daughters Eden and Savannah having recently celebrated their second birthday — a “very small…charming” party complete with butterfly cookies and cakes  – the 46-year-old [...]

Cash and Honor Warren: Chuckling Cuties

Limelight Cash Warren makes daughter Honor Marie laugh while out grocery shopping as a family at Bristol Farms on Saturday. The 9-month-old is the first child for Cash and actress wife Jessica Alba, who married last May. See more pictures of the Alba-Warrens in their family album! Honor sits in a BuggyBagg in BlackToile/Black Twill ($60). A family [...]

Should a Toddler Wear Pull-Ups While Potty Training?

As a parent, you've learned a lot while your child moved from being an infant, to crawling, to the mobile stage of an active toddler. Now that they are older, and able to understand simple directions and associations, you're working towards the goal of "no more diapers." You'll get lots of tips and advice, some of which is valuable, and some that will leave you undecided about things like should a toddler wear pull-ups while potty training?

Amy Adams Will Keep Family on the Smaller Side

Michael Germana /SSI Photo/Landov Actress Amy Adams knows what it is like to be surrounded by family, as she has seven brothers and sisters! For that reason that the 34-year-old doesn’t think that she and her fiancé, actor and artist Darren Le Gallo, will have a big family. “I didn’t like having seven siblings when [...]

Erbaviva Quease-Ease Lip Balm: It Ain’t Easy Being Queasy!

I’m not pregnant (seriously, Mom!) but I’ve found an amazing new nausea remedy for my friends who are. Erbaviva’s Quease-Ease Lip Balm ($9) is an all-natural, organic, no-bad-stuff lip balm that uses oils of peppermint, rosemary, ginger and lavender to alleviate nausea. Shea butter moisturizes and protects and something makes your lips tingle like you just [...]

Win Bliss Living’s Mom’s Name Charm Necklace! (A $250 Value)

This week you have the opportunity to win BlissLiving.com’s Mom’s Name Charm Necklace (a value of up to $250). It features the names of your children on shiny hand-hammered charms and accented by a tiny authentic Swarovski crystal birthstone. Each necklace is a one-of-a-kind creation. The charms are custom inscribed by artist Holly. BlissLiving.com is [...]

Jaime Pressly Writes Memoir For Dezi

Vince Flores/ Celebrity Photo With her separation from ex-fiancé Eric Calvo, aka DJ Eric Cubiche, “still fresh” actress Jaime Pressly says her only focus in life remains Dezi James Calvo, the couple’s 22-month-old son. That much is evident when she talks about the impetus behind her new memoir It’s Not Necessarily Not the Truth: Dreaming Bigger [...]

Nancy O’Dell Used Pregnancy to Her Co-Hosting Advantage

Ramey For Nancy O’Dell, who tried unsuccessfully for eight months to become pregnant before welcoming daughter Ashby Grace in 2007, the job of co-host at Access Hollywood was often a bittersweet place to be. “I remember thinking, Britney [Spears] can’t be pregnant again, when I’m just trying so hard just to have one,” the 43-year-old admits [...]

Alyson Hannigan Ties One On

Kaminski/Whittle/Splash News Online Nearing the end of her pregnancy, Alyson Hannigan is still staying stylish, wearing a printed top and scarf paired with dangling earrings for an errand run Friday afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif. Awaiting the early April arrival of their first child, Alyson, 34 and husband Alexis Denisof know the sex of their baby, but [...]

Mary Lynn Rajskub Works It Out

When she was pregnant with son Valentine Anthony, 8 months next week, Mary Lynn Rajskub says that her diet consisted primarily of “non-stop” sugar. “I shouldn’t be saying that,” she admitted during a St. Patrick’s Day appearance on The Bonnie Hunt Show. “But you work it out later.” Work it out indeed! Valentine’s dad – Matthew Rolph — [...]

Michael J. Fox Opens Up About Facing Parkinson’s With His Family

Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1991, at times Michael J. Fox finds himself considering the toll his health has taken on his family. However, all it takes is an outsider to ask how he is coping with his life to put things back into perspective for the actor. “I think, cope?! It’s [...]

Chris Cornell’s Little Rockers

Russ Einhorn/Splash News Online Four-year-old Toni Cornell looks like a rock star in the making with those shades! She posed with brother Christopher Nicholas, 3 and parents Chris Cornell and Vicky Karayiannis at last Sunday’s Stuart House Benefit. Former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris has a new album, Scream, out now. He’ll be touring the United [...]

Brady Wilkerson’s Baby Blues

Landov Melissa Joan Hart cuddles up to her blue-eyed babe, Braydon, while attending John Varvatos’ and Converse’s Stuart House benefit last Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif. It was a busy week for the Hart-Wilkersons — on Tuesday, Melissa and husband Mark celebrated Brady’s first birthday with a trip to Disneyland, where they partied with Pooh Bear. Melissa, [...]

Candace Parker: ‘Everything Happens For a Reason’

Courtesy ESPN for use on CBB Although her pregnancy was unplanned, Candace Parker is a big believer in fate. “I was surprised,” the 22-year-old Los Angeles Sparks forward admits in a cover story for the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine. “But everything happens for a reason.” What’s more, Candace says that she’s looking forward to [...]