Strollerderby : Babble Playground

Photo Contest Is Back!

editors — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:05:00 GMT

At long last you have another excuse to show us cute pictures of your kids over on the Babble Playground. In honor of the day we celebrate all things Pops, we want to see your best pictures of Dad and the Kid. Head over to the Playground, sign yourself up and you’ll be entered to win a Jeep Liberty Limited Urban Terrain Stroller with all the fixin’s! We’re giving away three of those bad boys so your chances are good. Well, better than most months. Enter today. – April Peveteaux

Winners of the Cute Contest

editors — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:32:00 GMT

In case you haven't perused the adorable entrants of the February Photo Contest: Baby Love - you're missing out on cuteness on a monumental scale. Here are the scrumptious winners -

Awwww! Never fear - if you didn't take home the big prize we've got the March Photo Contest: Sleeping Baby live now. Show us your snoozing babe and you can win a Luca Glider from Monte Design worth over $1,000! - April Peveteaux

Last Chance for Baby Love!

editors — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:33:00 GMT

What’s cuter? Sibling Love?

Grandma Love?

Twin Love?

We actually don’t know. But we do know we want to see more of your sweet pictures on the February Photo Contest: Baby Love on The Babble Playground. Enter today and show off your lovey kids and be entered to win the $500 gift certificate from Tea Collection children’s clothing. Contest ends today, winners announced Monday. – April Peveteaux

Winter Wonderland Winners . . . Wow!

editors — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:25:00 GMT

As always, there was much too much cuteness in the December Photo Contest. You all made us work hard to pick the winner and winter runner-ups. But Nancy's photo of her snowball lover took the prize which includes the Quinny Buzz 4 with mad accessories and the Maxi-Cosi Mico car seat. Who else gets an honorable (adorable) mention?

Meet Sireesha's chilly little Brooklyn baby -

And Dale Wieczorek Jr.'s mini Santa and his helpers -

Sam's Union Jack looks ready to roll in the snow -

While Jennifer Paulson's babe is doubling as decor -

Never fear, our January Photo Contest is here. Enter the Baby New Year contest to win a "Bringing Home Baby" prize from Medela and Britax worth over $800. We have so much freaking fun on The Babble Playground. You should really join us - today! - April Peveteaux

It's a Christmas Miracle!

editors — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? You say, what you really wanted was a well-designed stroller? Like the Quinny Buzz 4 with Maxi-Cosi Mico car seat, perhaps? The Babble Playground is here to make your Christmas wishes come true. If you’ve got a camera and kids – snap away and enter your best winter or holiday photo here. Look at these little ones – don’t they look festive?

Enter today and win over $1,000 in prizes from Quinny and Maxi-Cosi. Happy Holidays! - April Peveteaux

Blow All Your Dough on Presents and Need a Stroller?

editors — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:32:00 GMT

Lots of us are cutting back on the gift-giving this year, but if you’re not one to scrimp on Christmas cheer you may find yourself with no money for your new baby. Oh no! What a conundrum. Luckily The Babble Playground is giving one lucky family a Quinny Buzz 4 stroller with the required (and fantastic) infant car seat – the Maxi-Cosi Mico. We like to keep your baby stylish and safe here at Babble so here’s what you need to do to win this combo worth over $1,000:

Join us on The Babble Playground. Create a membership, upload your photos, blog a little and make yourself at home.

Join the group - Photo Contest: Winter Wonderland. Upload your best kid shot of this magical time of year and peruse the other adorable pics of Playground members.

Sit back and wait to see if you are a winner. We’ll let you know on January 2^nd. Hooray!

December Photo Contest: Winter Wonderland

editors — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:39:00 GMT

Have you seen these kids frolicking over at the Playground yet? They’ve got the Winter Wonderland holiday spirit – do you? Here’s what we’ll give you if you show us the frosty fun side (or the "I live in Florida" holiday fun side) of your family: An amazing prize package from Quinny and Maxi-Cosi. The brand new Quinny Buzz 4 is going home to one lucky reader/photographer with all the fixings and a Maxi-Cosi Mico car seat to boot. That’s worth over $1,000 bub, what are you waiting for? Join The Babble Playground and December Photo Contest today! - April Peveteaux

Family Portrait Winners!

editors — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:02:00 GMT

Here at Babble we know that you're all winners, but over at The Babble Playground we picked the tops from the most adorable family portraits - ever! Exhibit A: the JDallasRim Family as seen above. They are the lucky winners of a $500 gift card from Amazon. That's right, free holiday shopping courtesy of Babble. Don't worry, you haven't missed your opportunity for big prizes. We're kicking off another photo contest for December: Winter Wonderland. Join today and enter to win a Quinny Buzz stroller with a mad accessories package worth over $1,000!

Now, let's take a look at those runner-up families, also incredibly adorable:

Need Some Holiday Cash? Have a Family?

editors — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:35:00 GMT

Let’s all give thanks this week that we have that we have a chance to win $500 from the Babble Playground. So when you’re communing with your family, get out that instamatic and get some great pics before it’s too late! We’ll be picking the winner of the Photo Contest: Best Family Portrait on December 1st, so join the Playground, upload your pics and sit back and wait for the prize patrol to visit your house. Or rather, your email, which is much less intusive. - April Peveteaux

Find out how to win a gift card from Amazon today!

‘Cuz You’ve Got to Have Frieeeends...

editors — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:36:00 GMT

image from Natalie Dee.

One of the fun things about joining the parenting universe is making new friends who share your love for coffee and disdain for single people calling at 10:30pm to complain about their busy schedules. Oh, and the cute moments you can chat about, that anyone without kids just wouldn’t understand.

If you’re looking for more parent friends, come on over to the Babble Playground where you can share pictures and chat amongst yourselves. If you’ve got tons of friends and are already hanging on the Playground, ask the non-members over too! Either one of these actions will automatically enter you in to our November Refer-a-Friend contest where you can win $1,000 of spectacular DwellStudio merchandise. And you can always use more shopping cash for the holidays, or for your darn self! - April Peveteaux

Join us today.

Because Halloween is All About the Loot

editors — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:00 GMT

Perhaps you were perusing our latest Babble List: The Best Halloween Candy Ever (by the way Brett, where are the tiny 100 Grand bars??) and began drooling at the thought of what you could filch out of your kid’s trick or treat sack this year. But you’re not going to get anything unless you dress them up first! And once you do, we want to see ‘em.

Check out the October Photo Contest: Best Halloween Costume on The Babble Playground and add your mini-monster to the mix. You can win big prizes from BabyBjörn while showing us all how freaking cute your little pumpkin is. Like so:

Awwww. . . Enter today! - April Peveteaux

Dress Up Your Kids - Win Big Prizes!

editors — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:34:00 GMT

Another Halloween, another princess costume your princess wanna-be won’t take off . . . But this year you can take advantage of your kiddos refusal to wear anything other than their cape to school for the entire month of October. Snap a photo and enter our Babble Playground October Photo Contest: Best Halloween Costume and win big, big, I mean – big prizes. Proof, after the jump.

Okay, so you won’t be winning this adult-sized Babysitter Balance from BabyBjörn, but it was awfully comfy and if it’s good enough for one of the, ahem, Babble editors, it’s even better in normal size for your small fry who still finds bouncing to be a perfectly reasonable way to wile away their afternoon.

Enter today and win over $500 of prizes from BabyBjörn and show off the creative costuming that goes on in your house. – April Peveteaux

Messy Face: We Have a Winner!

editors — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:26:00 GMT

Prepare to be grossed out, baby style. We’ve picked our winner for the September Photo Contest: Messy Face and it’s not pretty. Well, it’s actually quite cute…and yucky. The winner of the mealtime super package is this dirty guy pictured above. He belongs to Babble Playground member Kristina Nohe!

And of course we have our runners-up since this contest is always a tight one. Coming up next is the pasta-rific entry from Supernat:

Meet Dana Randall’s royal cake-eater. Perhaps you recognize him as the winner of the Funny Face contest. Here's another prize-winning look:

Jillian’s fella’ went for the full-body messy, not just the face. Well done!

And Martine Patry’s little one will cry if she wants to. As seen here:

Join in the fun at the Babble Playground. Coming up - October Photo Contest: Best Halloween Costume where even more super prizes will be awarded! - April Peveteaux

Last Call for Messy Face Contest!

editors — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:37:00 GMT

We’re wrapping up our September Photo Contest and if you haven’t entered yet then this is not your child:

Head on over to the Babble Playground right now and set yourself up. You could win a fabulous mealtime prize package from Küster, Mutsy, Kushies and trebimbi worth over $500 and your kid will be the best-fed, best-looking dirty face in the neighborhood. Join us! Like, today! - April Peveteaux

Join Babble Playground and Win!

editors — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:07:00 GMT

Perhaps you’ve been eyeing the photo contests at the Babble Playground and thinking, “Hmm, that’s just too much work, what with the copying and pasting in order to win such fabulous prizes.” Have we got the contest for you! In addition to our fabulous Photo Contest: Messy Face we’re giving away a grand prize to anyone who joins the Playground during the month of September. That’s right; simply by signing up and creating a profile you are entered to win a CUB Sleeper + Station from NettoCollection, a $1,275 value. Have you already joined during September? Guess what? You’re entered!

Still, check out that Messy Face Contest. So far we have a lot of yucky cuteness happening there. – April Peveteaux

Photo Contest: Messy Face!

editors — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:37:00 GMT

We know you’ve got ‘em. Those mashed pea photos, the ice cream everywhere but in their tiny mouths. Send us your Messy Face photos and enter to win September’s contest! Only Babble Playground members can enter, so join us on the Playground, create your profile then meet up with the Photo Contest: Messy Face group and show your baby stuff! It's fun over there, so hustle.

Need one more reason besides showing off your hi-lar-ious offspring to the world? We’ve got an amazing (and appropriate) mealtime prize package for the winner of this contest worth over $500 including:

Super hot Küster high end sustainable highchair (pictured above), a beautiful bib package from Kushies, fancy schmancy table set from Italian designers Trebimbi and Grow Up! booster seat from Mutsy. Enter today! - April Peveteaux

Serious Face Winner & Finalists!

editors — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:02:00 GMT

This was, seriously, the most difficult contest to judge. And with all the water park, hockey and ice cream eating serious photos we considered a separate category for “serious face while engaging in traditionally mirth-filled activity.” Still, someone must win and that winner is the stalwart child you see pictured above. It’s Mira! Hopefully the Mutsy Slider Stroller she’ll be cruising around in will turn stern into sunny. Congratulations Mira, and you’re in weighty company. We have some runners-up who will also be the recipients of prizes to make them smile. They are:

The Schouweilers, who also dressed their little one for the part.

Meghan’s babe is very serious about that rubber chicken.

From SAEBausch, that’s a baby who ponders.

Stephanie’s kiddo has a promising future in method acting.

Join us at The Babble Playground every month where we are giving away super prizes for the best pic's of your kids. Check in later this week and enter September’s Messy Face Contest where your effusive eater can win a fabulous mealtime prize package worth over $500 including: high end sustainable highchair from UK designers, Küster, beautiful bib package from Kushies, table set from Italian designers trebimbi and Grow Up! booster seat from Mutsy!

Check out the Winner of the Funny Face Contest!

editors — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:00 GMT

After all the looking and laughing and laughing some more, our panel of judges picked Dana Randall (that's her munchkin, above) as our big winner of the Funny Face Contest on The Babble Playground. Dana will be going home with the NettoCollection Moderne changing table, a $1,750 value. Whoopee! What do you think someone did to that baby to get this reaction? Dana, please do tell.

Even though Dana is the grand prize winner, we had so many great funny face options it took us an extra long time to choose, so we decided to recognize some of the other finalists in the great Funny Face Contest of '08. These lucky Babble Playground familes will be receiving some consolation prizes from the Babble library. Take a gander at the other winners, after the jump.

Meet the Runners-Up

Alicia's submission:

This left us wondering if perhaps someone left The Shining in the DVD player.

Lizzie's submission:

Excellent use of props.

Lisa's submission:

This would have fit in quite well in my high school yearbook.

You say you want to win fabulous prizes of extraordinary value? If you haven't joined the Playground yet, now is the time. Connect with other families, showcase your brood in photo and video and enter to win more exciting contests coming soon! - April Peveteaux