Nursery Notice is a cool new company that creates birth announcement websites, featuring the birth details, photos, and a digital guest book, where friends and family can post congratulatory comments. The design templates are clean and modern, and your site only costs $34 for one month (after which you can continue to pay to keep the site live, or simply archive it on a CD). Genius. nurserynotice.com

The new Ice Pops Cookbook from Williams-Sonoma includes 40 yummy popsicle recipes, and makes a great hostess gift for a summertime BBQ. $15.95 at williams-sonoma.com.

The Huffington Post has published a wonderfully comprehensive list of organizations providing earthquake relief in Haiti, along with instructions on how to donate to their causes. Two organizations whose efforts are specifically targeted toward children's aid are UNICEF and Save The Children.

The Elias Zoo iPhone app offers 22 adorable illustrations of animals. Just poke the picture of the animal to hear the sound it makes. See the demo at eliassmiles.com.

If your kids already have the North Pole on the brain, they will completely flip when they watch this personalized video message from Santa. It's free and takes less than five minutes to program at the Portable North Pole.

With Crayola's "Lights, Camera, Color!" feature, you can upload your own photos to the Crayola website and convert them to coloring book pages. No joke. It's the coolest thing ever. It takes two seconds, but you need an "access code," which you can find on the inside of specially marked boxes of crayons—or you can try using our code: PR24QCHT. Test it out at crayola.com

TV Guide has published a calendar listing the broadcast dates, times, and stations for all the holiday specials, from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade through to Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve. Frosty, Rudolph, the Grinch, It's A Wonderful Life—they're all listed. View the complete calendar at tvguide.com.

The Yule Tree-To-Be Kit comes with everything you need to plant a Scotch Pine, which should grow to be 7-8 feet in six to eight years. (Makes a great gift for Christmastime babies.) $19.50 at arenaturals.com.

It's been a year-and-a-half since Carvel started making cupcakes topped with ice cream, and somehow no one told us. Chances are, if you don't see them at your local store, they'll be happy to make some for you. YUM. Carvel.com.

If you're not lucky enough to live near the Fashionology store in LA, order one of their DIY kits so you can help your kids design and embellish their own tees, tanks, pants and hoodies at home. Cute, fun, genius. www.fashionology.com