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Melissa Joan Hart‘s baby on the way already has her beat.

“[I'm] really exhausted. I don’t know if it’s [from taking care of] the two older ones, I don’t know if it’s because I’m older … but I feel so tired all the time,” the actress, 36, told PEOPLE at the Monday premiere of What to Expect When You’re Expecting in Hollywood, Calif.

“I’ve been in bed at 8:30 every night. I tell my kids, ‘Go put yourselves in bed. I gotta go to sleep.’”

But while she recognizes age may play a factor in her third pregnancy, Hart — who is mom to sons Mason Walter, 6, and Braydon Hart, 4 — did her part to prepare for the challenge.

“I was in really good shape before I got pregnant with this one,” she says. “I tried to set myself up. For about a year I made sure I took the right vitamins and didn’t take artificial sweeteners. I did take some precautions.”

Now in her second trimester, Hart has begun to feel the baby move inside her belly. And while she’s loving the “gentle” flutters for now, the Melissa & Joey star fears for her future.

“I feel like it’s going to be a strong baby,” she explains, “[but] if the kicks get stronger, I don’t know if I can handle it.”

But her little one’s moves don’t look like they’ll be slowing down anytime soon; Big brother Brady is already intent on teaching his boxing skills to the baby.

“The other day he was explaining to my belly how to do boxing. He was like, ‘Listen, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go right, left, uppercut. Right, left,’” the mom-to-be says with a laugh.

After two strikingly different approaches to motherhood — she and husband Mark Wilkerson gave their eldest “so much attention” as a baby, which proved hard to repeat with their second — Hart is hopeful she will savor each second with the upcoming addition.

“Things like, ‘What’s this letter? What’s this color? What does a duck say?’ With Brady we kind of blurred over that because we had Mason, too,” she explains. “I hope with this one that we’ll be able to go back to really focusing on the little things.”

– Anya Leon with reporting by Scott Huver

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Nicole Richie is going wild Down Under.

The Fashion Star mentor, who is in Sydney with husband Joel Madden, a judge on The Voice Australia, spent a family day at the Taronga Zoo with children Harlow, 4, and Sparrow, 2½.

They met a friendly giraffe and took turns feeding the animal carrots by hand. Both young and old seemed thrilled by the encounter: The children were googly-eyed, while Richie looked awed as she took photos of the giraffe on her phone.

Later, the group had a special meeting with another zoo resident, Yindi the koala.

“Thanks [Taronga] Zoo for having us today with the kids,” Madden Tweeted. “They are still buzzing from it. Can’t get enough. We’ll be back fo sho.”

– Helin Jung

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Christine Taylor and her husband Ben Stiller have teamed up again for a new project: creating a healthier family. However, their daughter Ella, 10, and son Quinlin, 6, have proven to be a tough audience to win over.

“Ben and I make these green drinks in the morning and they look at us like it’s from another planet,” the actress, 40, tells PEOPLE Wednesday at the N.Y.C. launch party for the organic body care line Nourish, for which she is the spokesperson.

“I joke, ‘Just join the party! Don’t complain so much, just join us.’”

Taylor and Stiller have recently embraced a plant-based diet that still includes “the things that aren’t so good for you in moderation instead of the other way around.”

“It really has changed our energy level,” she notes. “Sometimes you don’t realize it until someone says it to you, like, ‘Your skin looks amazing.’”

Her only hiccup is that she wishes had gotten her family in on the veggie kick sooner.

“We have friends that are vegan and their kids came out vegan,” she explains. “I’m so jealous that they had the information and they started the kids early because now to go back, it’s a little harder.”

Instead, Taylor’s dealing with picky palates. ”My daughter loves veggies but doesn’t love fruit. My son loves fruit and doesn’t love veggies.”

The same is true for the natural products she’s introduced the family to, like organic body wash from Nourish’s under-$10 line, which comes in five different scents that she’s had to strategically place around the house.

“My daughter vetoed the lavender mint but Ben likes the lavender mint. She loves the almond vanilla. I love the fig. My son is unscented because … he’s like, “That’s gross,” she laughs about the family-friendly product sold online and at Whole Food Markets nationwide.

Right now, Taylor accepts that making a healthy shift at home is an ongoing process and is confident Ella and Quinlin will one day get in on Mom and Dad’s green drinking ways.

“It’s that thing where your parents aren’t cool for a while and then suddenly they are. We just kind of plant the seeds.”

– Christie LaRusso

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Following her father’s passing, Kelly Florio Kasouf attempted to write down their best memories together, including her frequent trips to New York City’s Conde Nast building as a child, where her dad, Steve Florio, served as publisher.

“I was missing my dad — and all these wonderful times I had with him, and I was so afraid I was forgetting his memory,” she tells PEOPLE. “I sat at the computer and I wrote all of my memories down, and it turned out to be a children’s book.”

The final result, The Super Adventures of Sophie and the City, tells the story of an inquisitive little girl, much like the author herself, who makes her way through the storied publishing house’s many floors and learns about fashion, design, architecture, illustration and a host of other subjects, with a little help from such famous friends as Diane von Furstenberg and Isaac Mizrahi.

“I wanted to create a story and a character for little girls to look up to,” Kasouf says, adding that though the book has elements of glitz and glamour, “its core is family values.”

“It wasn’t about her wanting to wear brands and love brands, it was about learning something on each adventure,” she continues, “whether she’s becoming Cleopatra on the traveler floor or learning about women’s empowerment with Katharine Hepburn at the Met Gala.”

And when it came time to name her central character, the author didn’t have to look far for inspiration.

“My [16-month-old] daughter is Sophie; she was named after my grandmother who was my dad’s mom,” says Kasouf, who is also mom to 3-year-old son Henry. “I was literally writing [this book] for my kids so they knew how amazing their grandfather was.”

– Kiran Hefa

Molly Sims‘s son isn’t due for another month, but after her shower, the mom-to-be is already feeling inundated with affection for her little one.

“Based on all of the overwhelming love and support I felt from my friends and family at the shower, this is going to be one very adored baby,” Sims wrote in a post on MollySims.com.

The baby, which Sims recently revealed is a boy, will be the first child for the model-actress and her husband, Scott Stuber.

Sims also shared a photo of herself, holding up baby pictures of her and her husband.

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Saying she “didn’t want to torture people with shower games” at the celebration, Sims, 38, instead planned other activities, including asking guests to write letters to her son at designated ages, which will be given to him annually.

“He will get to open one on each birthday for almost 50 years!” according to Sims.

The shower also featured a scented oil station, where guests combined their favorite fragrances to create a perfume for Sims to use in her hospital room when she gives birth.

In addition, guests were asked to bring trinkets symbolizing important aspects of womanhood or motherhood, which will be strung into a necklace that Sims can wear with her to the hospital.

– Liz Raftery

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The Avengers may be blowing up the box office but Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor in the action-packed superhero film, is likely more interested in baby rattles than any magical hammer.

The actor and wife Elsa Pataky, who welcomed a baby girl last Friday, stepped out with daughter India Rose on Wednesday.

Married since 2010, Hemsworth, 28, and Pataky, 35, look as happy as proud new parents can be as they made their way through London’s Notting Hill neighborhood.

“I always liked Indie or Indiana for a boy, and she liked India. We went, ‘Oh well, whether it’s a boy or girl, that will decide.’ It just seemed to fit,” Hemsworth has said of their name choice.

– Aaron Parsley

Mini music men! Everyone from Otis Maguire (May 4) and Usher V (June 2011) to Jaid Nilon (Sept. 2011) have been channeling their inner beat while out and about in cute graphic music tees.

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With styles ranging from flying tracks to classic boom boxes, your little guy will love sprucing up his graphic tee collection. Ready to shop? We’ve rounded up our top picks — for every budget — below.

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Splurge

Nothing fishy here: Appaman‘s Blowfish Hooded Tank ($38) is oh-so hip with its headphone sporting catch.

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Affordable

Got a future mix master on your hands? Then he’s sure to love Mini Boden‘s Music Appliqué T Shirt ($28), which features a rock star worthy set of headphones.

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Bargain Buy

Música Maestro! The Children’s Place Spanish Volumen Graphic Tee ($5) says it all — turn up the volume! — so your tiny dancer can show off his best moves in his bright blue topper.

– Anya Leon

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Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley recently added a second daughter to their family — and now they’ve revealed her name.

The couple’s latest addition — a newborn girl adopted domestically — is named Adalaide Marie Hope, the actress’s rep tells PEOPLE.

She joins big sister Naleigh, 3½, whom Heigl, 33, and Kelley adopted from South Korea in 2009.

The newfound family of four shared a quiet Mother’s Day at home, with singer-songwriter Kelley, 32, preparing a sweet spread for his wife.

“HAPPY MOTHERS DAY !!!! Hope you dudes out there take care of your ladies. No skimping…,” he Tweeted, before sharing a photo of “the breakfast I made the mother of my children this morning.”

– Sarah Michaud with reporting by Julie Jordan

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Charlize Theron is keeping her new baby close to her heart. After the announcement that she adopted son Jackson in March, the actress was spotted wearing Dalla Nonna‘s delicate yellow gold “J” initial necklace (starting at $225) to celebrate her little bundle.

“Motherhood was something I always knew I wanted to experience,” the star, who adopted her son when he was 4 months old, tells InStyle in the June issue, on newsstands May 18. “What a great opportunity.”

Other celeb mamas are also hopping on the hot trend of personalized necklaces. Earlier this month, Beyoncé posted a photo on her website wearing a nameplate in honor of her four-month-old daughter, Blue.

– Brooke Showell

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Age may just be a number, but for Jennifer Connelly it’s been the secret to her family’s success.

“I’ve got a massive family now. It’s really unbelievable. They are all such extraordinary kids and they’re great together,” the actress, 41, tells Anderson in an interview airing Tuesday.

“They never fight, they look after each other. They are loving.”

Connelly, who is mom to sons Kai, 14, and Stellan, 8, and daughter Agnes Lark, 11 months, attributes the brood’s bliss to her and husband Paul Bettany‘s ability to spread the love.

“I am just blessed they are such great, really wonderful kids,” she raves. “Maybe it has something to do with the huge age gap between them, there is no competition and they all have so much attention and focus.”

However, despite the synchronization among the siblings, Connelly admits she won’t be expanding their family any further.

“I think we should call it quits,” she says. “It’s like trying to move an army getting out of the house and we go everywhere together, so it’s a lot of bodies to move.”

– Anya Leon