I consulted Monda and Miriel before I bought my DSLR and decided to go with the Cannon T2i, and got a refurbished one. There's a T3i and a T4i, but the only difference is a swivel-screen and a touch-screen, respectively--the T2i is just as good of a camera. I'm really happy with it.

My degrees are both in child development, and I worked in child care and education for ten years, so I'm pretty comfortable in that area. It was kind of weird when people would ask me for parenting advice before I was ever a parent, but the consensus seems to be that my advice was solid anyway. I just hope I'm able to put it all into practice now...

Now if only I could figure out where that pee smell is coming from...