Have you seen That Baby CD and DVD yet? You know, the ones with the cute kids with guitars on the front covers? The music is pretty cool. It’s kid-friendly acoustic covers of songs I already like: Bruce Springsteen’s Pony Boy, for example, and 10,000 Maniacs’ These Are Days. Good stuff. And I dare you to listen to the CD one time and not walk away singing happiness runs in a circular motion… I don’t know about anyone else, but if I’m going to have to have something stuck in my head, I’d pick Happiness Runs over Thaaaaaat’s Elmo’s World! any day.

The DVD is at its best when it showcases kids spontaneously being kids, as in Inch By Inch; other tracks feature cool graphics, puppets, kids dancing and playing, families getting ready for bed, and—least explicably and most uncomfortably—preteens lip-synching The Pretenders’ Brass In Pocket.

Other good stuff: That Baby has a “no questions asked” return policy if you don’t love it, and replaces scratched or damaged discs for free. (Don’t even tell me your kids don’t scratch up every disc in the house.) And you can preview the music and the DVD online.

Plus! Coupons and prizes, oh my. Enter the coupon code “MotherTalk” when purchasing and save 20% on your entire order! From now until May 18th, all orders using the coupon code “MotherTalk” will be entered in a drawing to win a new iPod nano.

And then there’s this! I’ve got a copy of That Baby CD and DVD to give away! Just leave a comment on this post any time this week (that would be from now until midnight pacific time on Friday, May 9). I’ll pick a winner at random.

Full disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book, as well as a small honorarium from MotherTalk for participating in this blog book tour.

Things that have broken this week:

The washer. As I mentioned. The new one was going to be here, what, Wednesday? Yeah, we’re looking at Friday, maybe.

The computer. It decided it didn’t want to turn on anymore, Wednesday morning. For no reason I could tell. Luckily it was revived, and here we are. (I know I feel lucky. You?)

The table lamp on the cabinet nearby the computer desk. It was a palm-tree-themed thing, and Dane was glad to see it go. I knocked it over and shattered it while on the phone trying to schedule for the really nice computer genius man to come check out our sad little computer. I also managed to accidentally hang up on him. Twice.

The garbage disposal. Unrelated to the lamp, I broke a glass in the kitchen sink. A shard lodged itself inside the disposal, which apparently is a problem.

The hall light. Burned out. Last evening. After I discovered the disposal thing, and before any of the above problems were properly fixed. Well, except for the shattered glass lamp thing. That I pretty much was able to deal with on my own and immediately.

Remaining to fix: The washer. It’s almost Friday morning. Why do I feel like I’m right back where I was Monday night?