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Kids Toys

Lego Advent Calendar 2011 – Star Wars!

August 16, 2011

The fine folks at the LEGO Group have stealthily released this years Lego Advent Calendar, with a small amount showing up at one online location already in the middle of August. If you’re VERY lucky, they might still have them in stock here. So you think it’s too early to be worrying about getting your [...]

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Angry Birds Real Life Game

June 27, 2011

Getting bored playing a near infinite number of Angry Bird levels on your smart phone? Longing for the satisfaction of knocking things down in real life that just can’t be replicated on a screen? Well look no further! Now there is an Angry Birds game you play in the real world. No, I’m not talking [...]

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The Best Kids Easel

May 4, 2011

Looking for the best kids easel? Perhaps you’re like us and had setup a dedicated area for art projects. And perhaps like us, you have a problem with junk collecting on the table. It’s great for projects, but it quickly fills and makes it hard to do any sort of play until it’s cleared off [...]

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Easter Basket Toys

April 13, 2011

Looking for a little something for the Easter baskets, but can’t find anything appropriate for babies and toddlers? Most of the Easter toys you see everywhere this time of year in the drug stores and supermarkets is for ages three and up. But what to give to the littlest ones? They need Easter fun too! [...]

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Spring Toddler Toys

March 27, 2011

No, I’m not talking about the famous Slinky here, I’m talking about toys for spring. If you live in a northern climate like we do, the arrival of spring is almost as eagerly anticipated as Christmas. Well, at least for us parents eager to get the kids outside and playing. Sometimes it’s hard to pick [...]

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Lego Sorting Box

January 10, 2011

In my quest to find the best LEGO storage solutions, I came across this little gem, the Box4Blox. The Box4Blox is made up of four stackable boxes each with ever widening holes in it to sort your LEGOs by size. Just dump a mess of mixed up LEGOs in the top, shake and viola! The [...]

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The Best Lego Storage

January 9, 2011

Earlier this year, Mrs TR wrote about a homemade LEGO storage solution using plastic shoe boxes to store each LEGO set, complete with picture cut out from the box. In a perfect world we be able to keep each individual LEGO set separated from the others. In reality our many Lego masterpieces are now scattered [...]

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Soft Body Baby Dolls

December 21, 2010

Many, many kids between the ages of 18 months and 4 years old love dolls. Boys and girls, although little girls are more likely to be given dolls as presents and therefore more likely to have a doll available when they hit this stage. When they enter the stage it will be obvious to anyone [...]

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Riding Toys

December 12, 2010

I love riding toys. Our kids love riding toys. This is obvious to anyone who comes to our house, we have a lot of them. Enough for all three kids and any visiting friends to have races around the house – and they do. I adore the Puffy Dragon Ride-On toy from Wonderworld. Look at [...]

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