Okay, a little late, but Friday’s Web Roundup just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Why are we late? Because we’re traveling – and we’re sick, and it stinks that sickness doesn’t know to stay away when you’re on vacation. We have all we can handle keeping our 3-year old entertained and dealing with a newborn. Below, some sites we’re finding particularly useful this week…

• CBeebies is a special site for the BBC’s younger viewers in the UK, and similar to the Noggin website in the US, it has great games based on the preschool cartoons it features. Add it to your arsenal of sites to entertain tots and preschoolers.
• Older kids with homework assignments to complete on vacation may appreciate Fact Monster’s Homework Center, which features a wealth of info in subjects like geography, math and history. (Although if they’re traveling so much, they should really have the geo down pat…)
• If you’re traveling in the Caribbean or Latin America (as we are) anytime between June and November, you might want to bookmark the National Hurricane Center’s website, which reads the weather patterns on that particularly disastrous weather occurrence; you can see updatesup to hourly when things are really jumping. Sign up for emailed updates and keep track of who’s causing the latest trouble out there.
• Coloring.com has pictures to color and the whole thing is done online, so no need to be near a printer (unless, of course, your prince or princess wants to print out the masterpiece…)
• Finally, in our bid to leave you with a laugh, check out this letter exchange between a hotel and one of its guests on hotel soaps. Supposedly true, it’s pretty funny. We don’t know which hotel this is or we’d tell you to steer clear…

We find that many sites having anything to do with luxury travel – or luxury period – are so humorless. There’s a certain nose-in-the-air demeanor. Like Victoria Beckham, there’s never a smile, furthermore a laugh. (Go ahead – pore through all the pictures you see of her and we are telling you, you will not find a smile. We don’t understand how she has 3 kids, but then again, she probably has 3 nannies.)

We don’t take ourselves that seriously. If you have children, you have to have a sense of humor. Certainly if you’re traveling these days it helps, since you are seriously running the risk of sitting on a tarmac for hours/running into a hurricane/being annoyed by your fidgety children. Mexico is fun. Spain is fun. Aruba is fun. Getting there? Uh, fun, not so much.

If you don’t appreciate a good laugh, then stop right here. If, however, you’d like an idea on how to keep baby safely harnessed the next time you’re on vacation and realize you left your Baby Bjorn at home, keep going. It’s definitely good for a laugh. And who knows – in a pinch, it might actually work. (more…)

While we normally avoid t-shirts with “cutesy” sayings for kids, we came across this shirt for traveling tots that we think is absolutely hilarious. Your neighbors on the flight might not agree – especially if you’re in first class – but they can’t say they weren’t warned…

available from Milkbomb in snap-shirts for infants 3-12 months, and short and long-sleeve t-shirts for 6 months to 6T. $22-$24