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Eating olives off your fingertips, this is one activity that should be declared a Thanksgiving holiday tradition for toddlers everywhere. Right?

On Thanksgiving, no mom wants to deal with gravy down her toddler's new dress, cranberry sauce on the new shirt, and/or mashed potato in the belly button (you know it could happen).

So why not protect your child's clothing and hard-to-clean nooks and crannies by putting your kid in a cool smock? These SMOX are handmade by CafeMom chealam0de and sold in her SMOX shop.

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Finally, this Thanksgiving your toddler gets to sit up to the table with the family. So keep your tot neat and clean with this Toddler's Thanksgiving Bib from Mama's Little Monkeys (CafeMom southernlamom ).

The bib snaps on, includes sensory tags at the edges (so your little one play with the tags instead of their food), and is $12. Plus, it's made by a CafeMom!

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Sure, there was the Baby's First Thanksgiving thing. However, unless you got really sassy with a blender, that was before the most important element of the holiday was introduced: the Thanksgiving dinner.

Will this be the year of your toddler's first Thanksgiving meal?

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After reading the Daily Buzz post French Fries: Most Popular Tot "Vegetable," some of you tot mamas — although you have a pretty good idea — wondered what good toddler nutrition should look like.

I asked Catherine McCord (CafeMom weelicious), the founder of weelicious.com, to tell us what she knows about good toddler nutrition.

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Isn't it funny how toddlers seem to come up with the most interesting of food combinations and they LOVE it?

Lil Sugar readers weighed in on some of their tots' oddest food combos. Here are a few that particularly made me want to hurl:

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According to the new Nestlé Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) just released at at the American Dietetic Association’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, parents and caregivers are listening and following feeding guidance for infants; however, as children grow older, there is still much work to be done to help them build good eating habits.

I guess I'm not overly surprised by these findings; however, it's still pretty interesting.

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A Halloween-themed birthday party is surely in my future — since my son Leo's birthday is on October 29th.

Not this year, but I'm collecting good ideas for a kid-friendly Halloween party.

My daughter is so cute when she tries to cut food. She's 4 and has just started asking to learn to use a knife, which is a relief. I'll grab any opportunity to pass off another duty.

But my right-handed girl can't understand the concept of using her less dominant hand yet, so when she tries to cut her fish sticks or chicken, she'll hold the dinner knife in her right hand and start sawing away. But then she doesn't know what to do with the fork, so it sort of dangles floppily in her left hand, and doesn't do a very good job of restraining the meat, which is still intact and sliding all over the plate.

If she lived in Ireland with her grandparents, this Continental style would be correct (her technique aside). The Irish, as well as the Brits and most Europeans, hold their forks with the tines facing down in their left hands and sort of push or pile food on top of it with their knives, in their right hands. Then you eat from the fork in your left hand.

A toddler diarrhea cure?

My pediatrician tells me not to give my kids real Pepto Bismol or Kaopectate for their upset tummies or when they have a virus for the same reason we're told to avoid giving them aspirin -- the main ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate, which is linked to reye's disease.

Too bad, because it works so well for grown-ups.

So what's a mom to do when diapers are exploding all over the place and she just can't "wait it out"?

Feed them magic poop-hardening foods, of course. Some of the more unusual food choices that CafeMoms suggest: