Ciaran, Anya, Josh and I just got back from Las Vegas, where we attended the ABC Kids Expo, the largest tradeshow of baby and kid-related gear (albeit with an unfortunately URL'ed one).  Imagine Babies R Us but 30 times bigger.  There I met with a bunch of my favorite vendors and some new ones.  Ciaran will be posting lots of stories about the products that celebs are loving and I hope to post a few reviews of my own - both on CBB and on the new JC Penney mini-site that I was invited to contribute to (launching this weekend).  Some lines I learned about include Kaboost, Xeko, and Bright Starts from Kids II.

One of my visits at ABC was to Boon, home of the Frog Pod bath toy scoop and storage amphibian, and many other hip and ingenius products including a great new line of baby feeding items, jewelry, and layette.  I met with Kate Benjamin, the marketing director, who has got to be one of the coolest people I've come to know in the baby gear world.  She told me about her new blog, moderncat.net (I guess moderncat.com was taken?), which is all about products for the modern cat. Yes, it has come to that -- blogs for cats with modern design sensibilities (or at least their finicky owners). Then again, less than four years ago people were laughing at the idea of a blog all about the offspring of celebrities. Before you know it, there will be 10 copycat sites and we'll all be saying we knew Kate when she was a lowly marketing director...

Anyway, if you are a catmom or a lover of contemporary design, I urge you to check out this site that takes modern design, but not itself, seriously.  After all, if you are going to have a cat bed in your living room, why not have one made of bent plywood that matches your Eames furniture?