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12 Days of Gifts Galore Giveaway Hop

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It’s that time of the year when many people are thinking about the upcoming Holidays, the celebrations, the friends and family and the gifts! Welcome to 12 Days of Gifts Galore Giveaway Hop hosted by Tales From the Nursery, Formula Mom, and Mama on a Green Misson. There’s over $5,000 in prizes offered to help you get the gifts you need this holiday season. After you are done entering our giveaway you’ll want to check out everyone else’s AND enter for a chance to win one of three GRAND prizes sponsored by Kudzoom! Each blog you stop and enter at … Continue reading →

Holiday Gift Guide Feature: Discovery Kids RC Spinning Lights Car

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Discovery Kids RC Spinning Lights Car This remote control car is seriously nothing like any other remote control car I’ve ever seen! It has amazing lights and does stunts that no other car can! It takes 6 AA batteries, so be sure to invest in rechargable ones as something tells me that you will go through quite a few batteries during the life span of this car. For what this car can do, it is very reasonably priced at $24.95 regular price (pssst: it’s currently on sale for $19.99). What child wouldn’t LOVE a Remote Control Car like this?! This … Continue reading →

greenCAPP Lunch Bag

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Last year, I had such a difficult time packing my daughter’s snacks and lunches for school. She was in Kindergarten and could not yet close all of her containers properly. This led to spills, messes and in one of her lunch bags, even mould. I wiped out her bags every night when she came home from school, but throughout the year, they still got rather gross inside! I was so excited when I heard about greenCAPP Lunch Bags because finally, a company had come out with a MACHINE WASHABLE exterior and a DISHWASHER or HAND WASH inside! The other thing … Continue reading →

DANO Rubber Duck

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How adorable is this DANO Rubber Duck? Some information:The DANO Ducki is a unique teether and bath toy that is made in the USA. It features: PVC-free, FDA-compliant medical grade materials. Also BPA- and Phthalate-free. A hatch on the bottom that opens for cleaning and to allow it to air out at the end of each bath. 2 teething surfaces: the tail and the beak. 3 fun colors: Yellow, Pink and Blue. Dishwasher safe, top rack only. When my daughter was born, we received so many rubber duckies! We already had a duck themed bathroom all ready to go, so … Continue reading →

The Little Looster Potty Stool

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This stool was featured during our Potty Training Event this fall.Finally Diaper Free was an event all about Potty Training co-hosted by The Knit Wit. The Little Looster potty stool is such a great invention! Little Looster Potty Training Stool makes going on the Potty SO much easier! I am LOVING our Little Looster potty stool! I love how it follows the curve our our toilet allowing for comfortable foot position and making it less likely that a child will fall off of the stool. I love how it has a place on either side of it to put your … Continue reading →

DVD: Elmo’s Travel Songs and Games

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Do you travel much with your young children? If you’ve ever been on a Road Trip with your children, you know how challenging it can sometimes be to keep everyone happy in the car. If you have a DVD player in your car, or if you own a portable DVD players, Elmo’s Travel Songs and Games is the perfect entertainment for young children. This DVD features Elmo and his friends while they go on a Road Trip. Elmo provides children with entertainment (and safety tips too!) through songs, a story and games while on the road. Sesame Street characters are … Continue reading →

Book: Beautiful Blue Eyes

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Beautiful Blue Eyes by Marianne Richmond (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; ISBN: 978-1-4022-5639-4; April 2011), which is a follow-up to Beautiful Brown Eyes is a very special book.“I watched, and I waitedas your eyes chose their hue,deciding in time on their beautiful blue. Blue as a butterflyor the sparkling sea.Blue as the bluebirdwho sings in her tree.” Every child is unique and this book celebrates that fact. The book is written from a parent’s perspective about how a child’s eyes tell us so much about them. This is a beautiful book for a parent to share with their child. The illustrations in this … Continue reading →

Organizing Wish Lists for Christmas

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Last night, I spent over an hour in our basement sorting through the large plastic bins where I store future gifts for our children. You see, my husband and I don’t enjoy doing anything last minute and that includes Christmas shopping. We tackle it as a year long mission, collecting things as we see them. The only problem with this tactic is that throughout the year, new toys come out that the children oogle at AND sometimes their wish list changes. This year, one of the hottest toys marketed towards girls (although to be honest, I wish it was promoted … Continue reading →

Kid Decorated Pumpkins

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Kids just LOVE to be a part of decorating for Halloween, but some of the Halloween Traditions, like carving a pumpkin aren’t 100% safe for young children. Yes, there are “child safe” knives out there, but pumpkins are very HARD and therefore difficult for young children to cut. What can you do to get your child involved in pumpkin carving and Halloween decorating? Here is a list of idea: Stick up Halloween Window clings Draw Halloween pictures and signs and hang them up Help scoop out the seeds of a pumpkin Sort the seeds out of the pumpkin “gunk” (this … Continue reading →

Halloween Cobweb Sensory and Fine Motor Activity

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Buy one of those cobwebs in a bag at the Dollar Store (gotta love Dollar Stores!) and hide creepy creatures inside of it. Boy, was it ever difficult to find creatures that weren’t choking hazards wee ones! Children love to feel, stretch and pull the cobweb apart a hundred times in search for spiders and creepy crawlies galore. Other items, good for older children to find, include pumpkin seeds and Halloween plastic rings. If you’d like to learn how to make Halloween Shakers, check out our Halloween Shakers post.