::someone's watching me::

During our visit to New York two weekends ago (Brooklyn in da house!), we brought the entire collection O's "nighttime accouterments" with us--pack-n-play, sound machine, iPod+speakers, nightlights and video monitor.

Miss O was partying until 9:30 every night in her PNP, while we watched her entertain herself on the video monitor. Out of curiosity, we changed the channel of the monitor from A to B. Something freaky happened. All of a sudden, we were watching someone else's baby sleeping! It turns out, the family two floors above Uncle M have twins and apparently the same video monitor. Disturbing.

I love the video monitor, and would never give it up. It's a great way to sleep train the baby without interfering. But if you are very concerned about the security of such devices, I would recommend the Philips LCD 589 Baby Monitor. It is audio only, but it runs on a secure, private connection with a range of up to 900 feet. You can monitor the room temp remotely and the base unit comes with 5 lullabies and a starry nightlight. It is expensive at $200 retail, but Amazon.com (as always) has it for as low as $154.99.

As for the sound machine, I have loaded white noise loops and sounds of the ocean onto OliviPod. Now we can travel with one less thing. Mmm hmmm.