The Awesome i-Mat Set My Animal World

Disclosure:The i-Mat Set ‘My Animal World’ from Creative Baby was provided to me to help facilitate my review. All opinions are my own and honest. I am disclosing this in accordance to FTC Guidelines. Please see “Disclose” tab for more information.
Creative Baby

Learning about great ways for my child to learn and play at the same time is always very important to me. Creative Baby has created some awesome toys/learning devices for your child. I was very impressed to see the i-Mat: My Animal World.

About Creative Baby:

Creative Baby believes in stimulating children’s minds through fun and engaging activities. It’s the first step in unlocking their creative potential. Creative Baby develops products that are made to excite, entertain, challenge, and delight. The unique line of products cultivates a true love of play in children, and empowers parents to encourage and participate in their child’s creative development.

About i-Mat Set (Pad & Voice Pen) My Animal World:

This awesome soft play mat is great for all your indoor play time with your child. There is a full color illustration of animals from around the world, the i-Mat serves as a fun visual play land with dozens of cute animals that todders can’t resist nor their older siblings. Animal name clouds stimulate the visual connection of the words with corresponding images and animal names. Just point at the picture and wait and listen to the name and sound that the animal makes.

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Puppy in my Pocket DVD Review

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The other day, the mail man pretty much made my daughter’s whole life by handing her a package. Inside the package was Puppy in my Pocket – Adventures in Pocketville – Friendship Ceremony.

She couldn’t wait to get it in our DVD player, and I was anxious to see if it was a movie that would actually be bearable for me to sit through 300 (just an estimate!) times a day. Luckily for me, this DVD exceeded all of my expectations. It wasn’t annoying at all (like some kid movies can be) and it kept my daughter entertained for the entire 80 minutes.
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Bob’s Favorite Sing Along Songs

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Children love music, there’s no doubt about it! It brings joy to kids at such an early age we as parents want them to explore and enjoy it throughout their lives. What better way to do that with Bob McGrath’s new Favorite Sing Along Songs? You may remember Bob McGrath as a child yourself who was on Sesame Street!

With his new CD and great children’s sing along songs he once again brings some joy into our households. 30  songs , including “If Your Happy and You Know It” gets the kids engaged right from the get go. Encouraging them to get up, dance clap and sing along throughout the entire CD. He takes the all-time favorite and classic children’s songs and turns them into upbeat vibrant loads of fun to brighten any day. Out of the 30 songs, 15 of these are instrumental giving the kids a chance to sing by themselves or just listen to all the instruments within each. I like that, the first song get’s them all pumped up and singing and they can carry it out through the repeat with just the instruments. My kids got a kick out of that.

I enjoyed the way my kids were able to sing along to every song. We know them already but sometimes you hear a song that’s too fast or honestly too slow which makes the kids not want to jump in with the words. Bob did a wonderful job taking these classic songs and keeping them to what they were made for- getting those kids to fall in love with the music. It’s so important to get the kids involved , have them burst into songs is just one way to do it. Play it during clean up, play it during snack time! Get those kids on the dance floor and have them bust out some moves.
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Room on the Broom Toys

My son loves his new Room on the Broom book, and even more now that he can read it with the book’s “star”- the Witch!
He enjoys reading the book to the Witch, and snuggling with her afterwards.  The cat and dragon from the book are also available for purchase at stores like Barnes and Nobel and http://www.kidspreferred.com/
The #1 selling Halloween children’s book in the United States, “Room on the Broom” by Julia Donaldson, has expanded to include a collection of playful toys, an upcoming animated TV movie, a new DVD and more. Donaldson, Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom and author of the wildly popular Gruffalo book series, has sold more than 20 million books globally.  The enhanced 2013 Halloween collection includes a new animated TV “Room on the Broom” movie for a U.S. audience.   The new animated movie, “Room on the Broom”, launches on DVD at Target and other major retailers this August, books can be found at all good book retailers, while plush toys are now available at Barnes & Noble and Bye Bye Baby.

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Flexi-Fit Toilet Trainer from Pourty

Disclosure: Pourty Flexi-Fit toilet trainer was provided to me to help facilitate my review. All opinions are my own and honest. I am disclosing this in accordance to FTC Guidelines. Please see “Disclose” tab for more information.
Pourty Flexi-Fit

Finding a great Toilet trainer seat is very important when you have young children in your home. I have been completely impressed with the Flexi-Fit Toilet Trainer from Pourty.

About Pourty:

The idea of the Pourty Easy to Pour potty chair came about in England while they were trying to potty train their 2 oldest children. Emptying the potty seat was a very messy job. It inspired them to find a better way to go about it. The Pourty was born. It is one of the best selling potties in the UK.

They then realized that not all children want to use a potty chair and that some prefer to go straight to the “big” toilet. They found many problems with each of the toilet training seats that they bought, because they wobbled and didn’t give their children confidence to sit on them. They did some research and found that it was a common problem since most adult toilets are different shapes and sizes. They designed the Flexi-fit Toilet Trainer, which adjusts to fit most sizes and shapes of toilet seats securely.

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Creative Book Reviews

This past week, I had the opportunity to check out three different books to help spark creativity.

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The first book I received was called Animals Everywhere : a Pop-Up Adventure which was written by Yvonne Deutch and Jonathan Woodward made the beautiful pop up pictures.

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This book is so much fun to read and the pop-up images are just incredible. Really, with every page I was in awe. Plus, it’s packed with fun facts and definitely kept the kids I read it to thoroughly engaged.  This book would make an excellent gift for any child who loves animals (and knows how to be careful with their books).
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Just Me Music Personalized CDs for Kids

Disclosure: The Elmo and Tea Party Personalized CDs from Just Me Music were provided to me to help facilitate my review. All opinions are my own and honest. I am disclosing this in accordance to FTC Guidelines. Please see “Disclose” tab for more information.
Just Me Music

What child doesn’t light up from head to toe when they hear their name in the middle of a song? Now imagine if that song was also being song by one of their favorite characters. Let me tell you that both my little girls are huge fans of Just Me! Music.

About Just Me Music:

Just Me Music provides your child with a cd that is sang by your childs’ favorite characters. Throughout the songs that they sing, which are common songs for each character, they will say your childs’ name. They offer a wide variety of names and spellings of the names, so that you should be able to customize it just right for your child using their name, nickname, or even middle name.

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Myselfbelts – Easy Belts for Kids

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Ever since Little Man was a little squirt he has always wanted, “a belt like daddy”.  Daddy wears a belt almost every day to work or with jeans.  Yes, sometimes even daddies get a sweatpants day, but they are quite infrequent here since this daddy really hates sweatpants.  As school rolls around, we find there are belts in his size and he is excited.  He is not great, however, at working the belts.  He has a hard time with them.  Whats a squirt to do?  Myselfbelts is made just for kids, and they make it easy for them to use.

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Myselfbelts specializes in belts made for little ones.  The belt is the only one handed belt available and is so simple it is surprising it isn’t used more often.  To use the belt: one end of the belt is attached to the first belt loop of the pants.  Then the rest of the belt is fed through the loops like normal.  When you get to the front the unattached end sticks to the attached end of the belt and thus it is closed.  The belt is easy to open and is perfect for little kids.  There is no where to catch a little finger in and with the wide array of styles it would be difficult to not find a belt which would be perfect for anyone.
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