Shiloh Jolie Pitt has requested a soldier themed party and boy toys for her birthday.
The 3 year old asked mum Angelina Jolie and dad Brad Pitt for a military themed bash to celebrate turning four. Shiloh’s brother Maddox had a soldier themed party when he turned four and she wants the same.
Angelina and Brad are planning to shower her with birthday gifts including boots and toy guns.
It was recently claimed that Brad spent more than $10,000 buying boys clothes for Shiloh after she shunned the girl clothes he was buying for her five year old sister Zahara. Brad has previously revealed that Shiloh only responds to the name John, after growing obsessed with the Darling brothers in the classic children’s story Peter Pan.

Baby Monitor
Monitor your sleeping baby with this iPhone app. Place the iPhone near your sleeping baby and if it detects noise it places a phone call to the number of your choice.

Baby Scrapbook
Take photos with the iPhone camera or choose them from your photo library and Baby Scrapbook will build a scrapbook for you to show off to friends and family.

White Noise Maker
White Noise provides ambient sounds of the environment to help your baby sleep.

World of Lullabies
Lullabies for all babies and little children.

Grow Baby Grow
This is an online application that can be used to track the growth of a child in the first 3 years of life.

Shake the Farm
Shake the farm is an interactive way for any toddler to learn about farm animal names and their individual sounds as they shake from one animal to another.

Baby Countdown Clock

You need to enter your due date and this provides you with a live countdown of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until that much anticipated day arrives.

Generally a nanny will be a trained nursery nurse. A nanny is responsible for the welfare, happiness and daily routine of the children which includes education, developmental activites and cooking meals. They will also do the children’s ironing, cleaning etc. They provide one to one continuous care throughout the year in the child’s familiar environment.

Childminders have to be registered, must take an Introductory Course in Home Based childcare and hold a paediatric First Aid certificate. They are inspected every two years to assess both the safety of their homes and also check their play and activity facilities. Childminders work from their own home and may be looking after children as well. They can care for a maximum of 6 children under 8 years old. Childminders often charge less than nurseries or nannies.

Hearing of a family naming a child after the entire Liverpool football team seems mild in comparison to others. A new Zealand couple named their twins Benson and Hedges and another child was named 4Real!
In chila nearly 3,500 children were named Aoyun which means Olympics, after the bid first came up to host the event. In 2007 a Chinese couple tried to name their boy @, stating that using the universally recognised symbol reflected their love for him.

10 things nurseries want from parents:

1.To allow the child at least 2-3 weeks to settle in.
2.To receive feedback and thanks from the parents for the care they give.
3.Not to prolong leaving if their child is upset.
4.To understand that nursery rules and procedures exist to protect the children.
5.To keep staff updates with changes in personal circumstances which may affect the child.
6.To provide staff with up to date emergency contact numbers.
7.To attach name labels to all belongings which are taken to nursery.
8.To teach them to use the toilet, blow their nose etc.
9.To discuss problems with staff.
10.To pick up their child on time at the end of the day.

When Suri Cruise turned 2 she celebrated with a custom four-tier cake in Los Angeles along with parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

The wedding style cake which had yellow butterflies and dots was reportedly $5,000 and made by a local specialty shop.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie threw a very low-key party for twins Knox and Vivienne’s first birthday celebration.
The older siblings Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh all helped bake two cakes at their home in Los Angeles, one for Knox and one for Vivienne.

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver chose a unique gift to give to his little girl Poppy as she turned one – a cherry tree!
Jamie could not think of a special gift to buy his daughter and then thought of a cherry tree. He said that when she is 10 she will have something to remember about her first birthday.

There are lots of ways that you can encourage children to eat fruit and even vegetables without feeling the need to force them. Here are some helpful tips!

For delicious smoothies use banana, strawberries and peach, or whatever fruit you have to hand. Blend with milk and natural yogurt for a great way to get the whole family upping their quota of fruit.

Try using fresh fruit juice, pureed fruit of fruit smoothies to make ice lollies pour into ice lolly moulds and freeze. Kids love them and its great to know they are not only avoiding food colourings, additives and sugar, but they are actually getting their fruit.

Sometimes the effort of eating an apple or orange all seems too much! But when presented with a bowl of beautifully prepared fruit salad kids seem to have no problem. Try to use lots of different colours for maximum appeal.

Puree soft fruits for a delicious healthy sauce to go on ice cream and other deserts.

One easy way to get them eating a wide range of vegetables is to make pasta sauces of blended vegetables such as peppers, carrots and courgettes. They get to enjoy the taste without even realising they are eating them!

Children love cauliflower cheese and you can add other veg such as broccoli and sweet corn.

Homemade soup is an excellent way of using up any left over vegetables and getting your kids to eat lots of veg without noticing! Try blending to a smooth consistency and adding a little milk in addition to stock.