Welcome to this week's issue -- Back to School. For many of our readers, sending your babies off to school seems light years away. But for some of us mommas with toddlers, the school year is just around the corner! We won't be running out to buy pencil cases or composition notebooks just yet but we'll bet that you'll love the products we found that you might just want to have for your little scholar.

They are too little to be bringing homework back from school but these Preschool Animal Bags - Book Bag, Lunch Bag, or Backpack, which are all sold separately, from www.potterybarnkids.com are truly adorable! The Book Bag or Backpack are just the right size to hold a snack, a blankie and a favorite stuffed animal, and your toddler will delight in toting their favorite of these animal friends along with them to school.

Your little man needs the perfect jacket for the upcoming fall weather. You'll surely find it in this wonderful Cozy Woods Baby Jacket from www.hannaandersson.com. Traditional yet stylish, it will be his and your favorite this season!

Snuggle up baby it's cold outside! Well you can bet your little beauty will in this wonderfully soft and warm Patagonia Synchilla Jacket from www.garnethill.com. This is truly a jacket for all occasions and one that this momma at The Baby Times has to have for her daughter this winter!

We all certainly want to instill in our children that learning is fun. We couldn't think of a better way to do that than to give your preschooler this fabulous and brightly colored My First Desk by Alex Toys from www.growingtreetoys.com. They will delight in hours of chalkboard drawing as well as have a great place for lots of other learning activities with plenty of room to store all their stuff!

We hope you've enjoyed our selection this week and we'll be putting a bit of a different spin on our newsletter next week while yours truly, your dedicated Editor and President of The Baby Times, is out of town. We'll be telling you about a change in our baby block B and hope at that time you'll also peruse the rest of our ABC Directory, which is continuing to grow with wonderful new merchants and services. Have a great week everyone!

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