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Get ready to dance along to Mr. G’s new album: Bugs. Mr. G is Ben Gundersheimer, an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and producer who spent 20 years as a rock frontman and solo artist, and also has a masters degree in elementary education. Now he has transitioned into family music, and his new album is really just that, music that the whole family will surely enjoy. With musical styles that range from bluegrass, bossa nova, and  folk to ska and rock, thereRead More ...

Last weekend I had the pleasure to watch Disney’s Mars Needs Moms with my children and their cousins. In the movie, nine-year-old Milo discovers just how important his mom is to him when she is kidnapped by Martians who plan to rob her of her maternal attributes in order to nurture their own young. In his quest to save his mom, Milo realizes just how much he loves and needs his mom. This movie uses motion-capture animation which added visualRead More ...

As many of you know, my 5-year-old daughter, Vanessa, started Kindergarten last Monday. This was a momentous milestone for everyone in our family and so my husband and I walked our firstborn the two blocks from our home to the school armed with cameras, videocameras and iPhones to capture it all. Growing up, I went mostly to private schools which meant that my back to school photos were of me in my school uniform. In other words, pretty boring. ItRead More ...

Birthdays are special occasions for people around the world, but for Latinos, each birthday is a passage into a new life stage. Whether you celebrate with a piñata, unique recordatorios, or a huge quinceañera bash, sharing your birthday with loved ones is a cultural necessity. Introduce your little lectores to the excitement of a cumpleaños by sharing some of these fun and informative books with them, or reminisce about your own lifetime of birthdays with the title I recommend forRead More ...

To continue our Bicultural Birthdays Celebration week we have more awesome prizes to give away.  (More huge giveaways happening here and here.) Our friends at Fisher Price are really in the mood to celebrate by the looks of this huge prize pack they´ve put together for ONE of you to take. The Fisher Price Bicultural Birthdays Celebration prize includes four different toys with a total retail value of $235. These toys would make great presents for your little ones onRead More ...

We all love to take tons of pictures to remember our fiestas by and then share them with family and friends, and what birthday is complete without a special birthday card? To continue our Bicultural Birthday Celebrations week, we introduce to you our next generous giveaway. Our friends at Snapfish are giving away a $100 card prize pack to TWO lucky SpanglishBaby readers! You can use those $100 to create anything from photo books to puzzles for your kids toRead More ...

Feel like dancing with your kids? Then press play on the video below for a hip-shaking, samba-envigorating preview of the first two minutes of the movie Rio where Blu, the Brazilian Macaw, is still a baby bird in his native land. As of today, Rio is available for your home viewing on DVD and Blu-ray.  This is a movie our kids will have a blast with and can also learn so much from with our guidance if we want to teachRead More ...

This whole week is dedicated to Bicultural Birthday Celebrations and group games have to be part of a good Fiesta. The games below were contribute by Jennifer Manriquez from The Bilingual Fun Company, so you know they must be a tested hit! La Araña La Araña is a fun and active group game. The game is played by a group of children ages 5 and up. The “spider” is confined between two parallel lines on the ground, drawn about 20Read More ...