Scholastic’s Animal Genius For Leapster Explorer and LeapPad

My kids love their LeapFrog products, we have two Leapster Explorers and a LeapPad1, they play them all the time.

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Super Animal Genius features nine highly replayable minigames that introduce young learners to hundreds of fascinating facts about 12 different animal habitats and 40 different reptiles, birds, amphibians, and mammals. By playing the minigames and completing Animal Challenge quizzes, players can earn animals for each habitat while learning about the animals’ physical attributes, eating habits, predators, and more.

This game is designed for children ages 5-9, and works with Leapster Explorer, LeapsterGS. LeapPad1 and LeapPad2.

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This game is great for children who loves animals. The game starts out with a Savannah and outline of animals. To make the animals appear you have to tap on the outline, play 9 games related to that animal, then take a little quiz. If you pass you earn your animal! The games seem ver simple, like help the Lion through the maze and eat all the Zebra’s before time runs out.
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The quiz is a little hard, the questions are mostly related to the games you just played, but I think are more about whether or not you payed attention during the games. All 3 of my kids loved the game, although it did seem a little easy for my 7 year old.

Animal Genius is available at retailers nationwide for $24.99
You can also download the game on the LeapFrog App Center.

Yo Gabba Gabba Live Is a must see show #yogabbagabba

We went to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live here in Huntington NY last night at The Paramount.   It was a really great performance.

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They did all the songs and dances from the show and it really got all the kids up and moving.

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The name game

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The kids were having so much fun dancing along, even my 6 and 7 year old were having a good time.

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Even Biz Markie was at the show, entertaining the kids. He sand the chorus to Just a Friend and all the adults started singing with him.

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There was also a special guest playing Saxophone and getting the kids to Jump around, I don’t remember his name though.

We went to the last show, and you could tell that the characters and DJ lance were tired. They still managed to pull off a great show.

My favorite song:

The show was really great, and they even have a package deal for you to meet the characters afterwards. We were a little confused where to go for that, it was our first time in the Paramount Theater.
The party package includes:

  • a ticket in the first 15 rows
  • a pass to the Get The Sillies Out After Party (meet the characters)
  • Hassle free merchandise shopping
  • Photos with you favorite characters
  • Vip host to make sure your experience is awesome.

If you want to go see Yo Gabba Gabba LIve, it may be coming to a theater near you.
Check here for the listing.

 

Disclosure: I was invited to see the show free of charge, all opinions are my own.

Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! Get The Sillies Out! Is Coming To Huntington NY

Yo Gabba Gabba Live is on tour and coming to a city near you.

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The sillies are crazy little creatures that live inside of us and need to be shaken out! DJ Lance Rock and everyone’s favorite cast of colorful characters are calling all fans to get ready to jump, shake and shimmy them out at the new live tour Yo Gabba Gabba! LIVE!: Get the Sillies Out!. Yo Gabba Gabba! LIVE!: Get The Sillies Out! tour will visit more than 50 cities across the U.S. in 2013.  Yo Gabba Gabba! LIVE! is touring in support of their first national beverage launch, a new line of toys, a new line of kids sportswear and a DVD/ CD collectors’ edition.
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Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! Get The Sillies Out! is coming to The Paramount in Huntington Long Island NY. There will be two show times on each day January 30, and 31, with show times at 3pm and 6pm.  Tickets start at just $29.50. VIP tickets are available as well, which include seats in the first 15 rows,and  a pass to hang with the characters in a private room. ** Children 1 and under do not require a ticket to sit on parents lap.

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GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!!!

 

Disclosure: No formal compensation was received for this post. I will be attending the show with complimentary tickets. All opinions are my own.

 

Valentine’s Day With Shutterfly Giveaway Closed

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Valentine’s Day is coming up and my kids have been wanting more personalized cards to give in class. My kids have always bought the character cards and then put their own touches to them. One year they added pictures, another year they made a picture on each card. They like that better than just a simple signing of the name.

This year we have decided to try out making our own personalized Valentine’s Day cards through Shutterfly. They want to personalize the cards with pictures and their own sayings, which is perfect since Shutterfly has so much going on.

  • More Designs! Over 50 new styles.
  • Fresh Color Stories and Artistic Typography
  • Sentiments that feel special and capture the spirit of the season!
  • Card sizes: 6×8, 5×7, 4×8, 5×5, 4×5

If your not interested in getting Valentine’s Day cards, Shutterfly has tons of other photo gifts. Two of my favorite photo gifts are:

Photo Mugs: Showcase your photos on your coffee mug at the office or at home.

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Desktop Plaques:  show your kids and family members off to your co-workers, with a desktop plaque.

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I love both of these because they are perfect for my home office. I have my desk plaque with a picture of Hubby and I and my coffee mug with pictures of my kids to get me through the day.

Want to join in on the fun?

Shutterfly is offering one of my readers a Valentine’s Day prize.

one winner will receive:

50 4×5  stationary cards and a 5.5×5.5 desktop plaque!

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Tell me your favorite design?

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Having Fun With Dry Ice

Every now and then we like to do visit my husband at school. He attends Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Watson School Of Biological Sciences.

We love to go on nature walks there, it is right in the water and so beautiful.

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The kids can get bored pretty quick, so thats when the science experiments start.

Dry Ice can be amazing

If you have a small piece of dry ice and stick it in a latex glove. It will start to blow up on it’s own.

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If you put dry ice in a bottle, then fill it with hot water and soap, you get a volcano like force.

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This was actually amazing to me, I didn’t know dry ice could do that.

Holiday Gift Guide: Cabbage Patch Babies

When my daughters were born, their first Christmas each one of them received a Cabbage Patch Doll with their name. Baby McKenzie and Baby Alexandra, They still have and play with them today.

Now that my son is a little older, he started asking for a ” Baby Patch doll” as he calls them. There is nothing wrong with a boy wanting a doll! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find any Cabbage patch Babies in the past couple years, until this year. I was invited to Jakks Pacific Toy Fair Preview, and saw the Cabbage Patch babies that would be released this year in August.

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When the holidays started getting closer, I started looking for the new Cabbage patch Babies and found them at Target. They had a blonde baby boy with blue dressings with the name Star. I waited to long though and they sold out.

I didn’t know that you could buy dolls on Cabbage Patch Dolls on their website.  You can even name the doll yourself for $3 extra.

I received this doll and am so in love with it. I can’t wait to give it to my son for Christmas.

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The Cabbage Patch doll is so cute, it comes with a blanket, bottle, pacifier, and birth certificate. Since I could not find one with the name William, I changed the birth certificate when I ordered. So now his baby has his name William Jack.

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Disclosure: No compensation at all was received for this post. All opinions are my own.

Great New Books For Christmas GiveawayClosed

My kids absolutely love reading, they ask for all sort of books for Christmas. They also love reading about Christmas. They were so thrilled when we received 2 new books in the mail.

Uh-oh! It’s Christmas Eve and Santa Claus is under the weather! Can Mrs. Claus save Christmas?

***This book is so cute, and very easy to read for the little ones. It’s mainly about Santa Claus having the flu and Mrs. Claus having to come to his rescue and do everything herself, including sending the reindeer off. Although it never mentions anyone being on the sleigh as it takes off. LOL!

We also received:

It’s Christmas Eve, Have you been good? Santa’s packed up all the presents and is headed your way! With the help of a certain red-nosed reindeer.

***Living in New York, I thought this book was so fun to show the kids. I said maybe this is really the way Santa comes.  This book also references most of the popular tourist attractions in new york. Santa Flies over Times Square, Ny Public Library, Statue Of Liberty, and gets stuck on the Empire State Building, plus more fun attractions.

Both books retail for $9.99

I am pleased to be able to give a copy of these books away.

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Disclosure: I received samples of the books above for review, and I will be donating them to schools ruined by Hurricane Sandy. All opinions are my own.

 

 

 

Toys R Us Time Square Hours Extended

Toys“R”Us Times Square, The World’s Greatest Toy Store, will keep its doors open for an astounding 543 continuous hours of shopping beginning at 7am on Sunday, December 2 through 10pm on Christmas Eve, providing customers with “all the toys, all the time,” including the must-have toys of the season, as well as those that can only be found at Toys“R”Us®. Gift-givers will also get incredible values each day up until Christmas helping them to check off everything on their little one’s wish list.

It’s the perfect time to get out and get some Christmas shopping done.

Toys“R”Us Times Square is located at 1514 Broadway (at 44th Street), New York, NY.

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Holiday Gift Guide: My Little Pony Castle Review

 

Celebrate the royal MY LITTLE PONY wedding of Princess Cadance and Shining Armor ponies with the Pony Princess Castle playset. All the excitement of the pony wedding comes alive with this castle playset featuring an elegant staircase, swinging bench, and balcony for the prince and princess, and lots of fun wedding accessories!

*** My daughter is a My Little Pony Fanatic, and as soon as she saw the pony wedding, she was begging for the castle toy.   My daughter was really excited about getting Princess Cadence, and her first boy pony Shining Armor.

The set has a lot of pieces, but is very easy to put together. Only took about 10 minutes. The placing of the stickers is a little tricky as there are so many. The set is beautiful when put together. After a couple times at play when we went to move the castle, it started falling apart. Nothing broke, but it’s a pain having to put it together over and over.

Even after all that it is my daughters favorite toy.

You can pick up the My Little Pony Castle at retailers nationwide or at Hasbro Toy Shop.

Disclosure: No compensation was received for this post. All opinions are 100% my own.

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