Grab the family for brain-teasing challenges with this combo pack featuring two popular games, Ultimate I SPY and I Spy Spooky Mansion, for double the I SPY fun! Ultimate I Spy Play I Spy like never before! Complete 40 I Spy riddles to unveil a mysterious machine, and then break a sweat to bring the machine to life! Features: 40 I SPY Riddles 32 Interactive Mini-Games 10 Unique 3D Environments 10 Replayable, Multi-Player Games 1-2 Players I Spy Spooky Mansion Discover a thrilling I Spy adventure while trapped inside a spooky mansion! To find the secret escape, explore the house and search for over 400 objects while solving 33 I Spy riddles.

** I really wanted to get this game to challenge my kids and this game really gets kids thinking.   I even found some parts difficult for me. We started with teh Spooky Mansion game and it was a lot of fun.

You have to go through different rooms and find items through the challenges to get out of the house. After you have finished a challenge another one arises. We have made it through the first couple of challenges, but are now stuck on the spinning plates.

With that challenge you have to spin all 3 plates at the same time and have green energy. It is really hard, we have been stuck on it for weeks.  There are little parts that just seem so hard to complete, but you just have to concentrate really hard.

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Two things that I have on my list this year for Christmas, yes I am already planning for Christmas. LOL! I have a kitchen play set and a table/desk, so my kids can do homework and activities. The problem is that I live in a small apartment, so we don’t have a lot of room.

When I was at Blogher 12 this year I was invited to the Fisher Price Servin’ Surprises event. I was totally impressed with their new kitchen play set. It’s actually a 2-1 table.

First it’s a kitchen play set:

The Kitchen is so much fun for the kids. It has an oven, a stove top and even a magical serving tray that talks. My favorite thing as a mom about the kitchen is the storage. In the middle of the table there is a hole, where the dishes, cups and play food can be stored.

It’s a table:

The stove top can flip over and make the table a flat surface, to do crafts or whatever you please. and Oven can just slide out so it’s not in the way.

I also got to check out and play with the Birthday Cake set.

I love the birthday cake set. The candle actually has a little pretend light on the top. So you can pretend like you are blowing out the candle.  You can make vanilla cake or chocolate by just flipping the cake over. The play set also comes with a cake stand.

Servin’ Surprises Kitchen is available online at the Fisher Price shop for $80, but you can find on Amazon for $69

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