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Family Life

Chalk Board Panels for the New Playroom

December 6, 2008

I have not yet purchased these chalk board panels, but I am seriously considering it. The status of the new playroom is that it is still an empty room. Why has it been an empty room for so long? Well, I can’t seem to decide what to put on the walls. I am feeling totally [...]

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The Best Toddler Scooter

December 3, 2008

When our boys were two we had a 10 year old neighbor who was extremely cute and would come over to play with the boys most days after school. He would also ride his big kids scooters over thus inspiring a very early and obsessive love of scooters in the hearts and minds of certain [...]

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This Year’s Champion 6th Birthday Present Is…

November 30, 2008

The Lego Star Wars video game. That’s right, not just a Star Wars video game, but a Lego Star Wars video game. I believe it is technically called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. The characters are all made of Legos and they don’t die when they get shot, they just fall into their [...]

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Birthday Present Roundup

November 29, 2008

Speedy and Rainbow turned six on Thanksgiving. They are officially big kids now they are six.  They were quite pleased with their birthday presents. We started out the morning with some adorable ghostie lights from Ikea.  They had been asking for night lights they could take into bed with them, and I saw these ages [...]

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Toy Trains for Jealous Siblings

November 21, 2008

So, your four year old is really into wooden trains and you are having a hard time keeping the one year old from wrecking them. Solution: get the one year old his/her own trains. I am loving these Brio First Train Sets for tiny engineers: They consist of cute little animal themed trains and an [...]

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Star Wars Seen Through Six Year Old Eyes

November 16, 2008

For you Star Wars fans who read my earlier suggestions on How Young Is Too Young For Start Wars that 8 was a good age to watch Star Wars for the first time, I have gone against my own advice! We finally broke down and let the Boys watch Star Wars at age 6.  And [...]

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Oh Snap!

November 14, 2008

This is what the kids and I did tonight while we waited for Daddy to come home from work. Pirate snap is a card game enjoyed by the 1 year old, the 5 year olds and the grown-ups alike in our house. You deal out all the cards and take turns putting a card on [...]

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Wall Stickers

November 6, 2008

We are still in the planning stages of the new playroom. It still has bare walls, but whatever we decide to put on them I am thinking of using these great wall stickers. You can stick them to the wall and they peel right off when you get bored with them:

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A bit of a day

September 26, 2008

We had a sick day here at Toy Reporter HQ, Rainbow and the Princess both have snuffly colds.  This means we watched too much TV and had a lot of snuggle time. I made flapjacks, which was a good decision because the princess didn’t want to eat anything else (and golden syrup is realio, trulio, [...]

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Sandgineering – Forget Sandcastles and Start Digging!

September 17, 2008

We live on the coast just a couple minutes away from a number of really great beaches and spend lots of time at the beach.  We’ve found that if we go early in the morning or later in the afternoon we can avoid much of the worst of the tourists and the sun burns.   Mrs. [...]

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