DARN YOU, ANGELEYES! Last night was a win. I had friends over, wore Real Clothing, drank sangria from breakable glasses… …and danced like the key to ending world hunger lay on my [flailing] shoulders [and arms]. Our good friends at Ubisoft sent me a copy of ABBA You Can Dance for the Wii, (available on Amazon) and generously gifted me a [pivotal] mirrored disco ball with lights. Turns out, all my daughters’ playroom needs to become a Studio 54-esque dance {Read More}
Now She Can Get A Part-Time Job.
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Nora is pretty pleased with me. Part of my review for LeapFrog’s My Own Storytime Pad required that she give it a whirl and personalize it to her liking. And there’s a lot of liking. The thing is pretty cool; a preschooler’s version of a tablet, complete with pretend (and individualized!) emails from Mom, Dad, and Suzy, stories that she can choose, built-in playlists and the ability to create her own songs. There’s an ABC function that lets her type out {Read More}
Yippee ki yay!
June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Thank you to Cube Dog for sponsoring this review. For more information about Cube Dog please visit the Facebook page or download it on iTunes. (And the Facebook page has a sweet contest running June 13th-17th!) *** I was rather excited to review the new Cube Dog app, available now (for free!) at the App Store. But no one- no one was more excited to “help” me play/review/play/play/boss/review this little guy than 4 year-old Lily and 1.5 year-old Nora. This thing is pretty cute. {Read More}
Playing favorites.
May 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
Thanks to Trop50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 Fabulous Wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to celebrate a friend with a refreshing attitude about looking and feeling fabulous! *** Okay, so I get to list five brilliant bloggers? Instead of being intimidated by this challenged, I was actually a little worried. Only five? (I do love me some interwebz-readin’.) So, with apologies to the eleventy other close, personal {Read More}
Please buy me a toy.
April 26, 2011 By 3 Comments
I’ll admit it. I got really excited when I was asked to review Ebeanstalk.com’s Toys For 2 Year Olds. Sure, Nora’s barely a year and a half, but you have to think BIG when it comes to the stuff you’ll be Playing. With. All. Day. Every. Day. In the past, we’ve been the lucky recipients of Ebeanstalk’s stellar Grow And Learn series, which gave us gifts all throughout the first year of her life. Right after she was born, Nora received the {Read More}
It’s Diptictastic.
March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Folks, it’s happened. The fine folks who brought us the Diptic app have combined two of my greatest loves: documenting my child and not using Photoshop or GIMP. What’s Diptic, you ask? It’s a photo manipulation program that lets the user resize, colorize, collage, and border images together. You know, the kind of thing that takes me a good weekend in Photoshop and GIMP. (And the kicker is- I know how to use those programs! Kind of.) Turns out, flicking an image {Read More}
The Art of the Lull.
February 15, 2011 By 11 Comments
Music is a constant in our house. We have cleaning mixes, Sunday morning albums, and classic vinyl on rotation. Nora can usually tell the who, what, and where of a situation by what’s currently playing: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros? Time to dance with Dad before supper. ’40s on 4, Sirius XM? Mom’s doing a project in the kitchen. Sweet Baby James up in her bedroom? Time to line up the Beanie Babies and Trolls- it’s playtime. We’ve been {Read More}
I also made a really sweet frog! Kinda.
October 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
Chewing it over. Today’s blog posting is about a toy. A really rad toy. One that you could win. (Curiosity piqued? I know.) Thanks to our pals at thenewtoy.com– a nifty online site that only features nine handpicked toys at a time- Nora and I received a fuzzy set of awesomeness known as Brain Noodles. They’re humongo pipe cleaners with a twist (and that you can twist)- they’re silky, non toxic and sans any sharp edges. (This is crucial in our household. {Read More}
