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Thingy Things by Chris Raschka are offbeat fun that toddlers will love

My wife and I had the sing song discussion prior to having children. That discussion was essentially that we would not ‘baby talk’ to our kids. The Thingy Things book series by Chris Raschka may seem like a very basic, baby style book based on its cover. However, as the saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover. These books are creative, goofy stories about animals-all the while using bigger vocabulary that your child can understand, but may not have seen in books yet.

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Bring the brackets with #FrozenChefMadness #Spon

Frozen foods are a constant in our house. You need to cook fast with two small kids and food at the ready is mandatory. March is Frozen Foods Month and to help celebrate it they’re having #FrozenChefMadness with hundreds of dollars in prizes to the winner who create the most thrilling dishes.

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LeapFrog Letter Factory : The Letter Machine Rescue Team giveaway

Our boys are raised on Leap, Tad and the other critters that make up the LeapFrog videos. We started teaching phonics to our oldest and I partially credit their phonic usage in his being able to read sight word and fully know his A, B, Cs as well as he does. Their latest video, Letter Factory: The Letter Machine Rescue Team gets the band back together, but also amps up the education while tweaking the format.

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What’s the best way to cut an avocado?

We love avocados in our house. It’s nature’s butter and is great on anything. Additionally, the lifespan of an avocado is frustrating, it’s perfect for seemingly one day and then it’s too ripe to eat all of it. So, what is the best way to cut an avocado? Using a spoon to scoop out the avocado never felt like the right way to do it. It wastes too much, takes take too long and produces a mash of avocado that was tasty, but had very poor presentation.

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Marvel Super Hero Mashers mash up toys giveaway

The other day we reviewed Hasbro’s Marvel Super Hero Mashers. It’s a mash-up action figure that allows you to put heads, arms and legs onto the torso of other super heroes. That way you could have a Doctor Doom/Spidey/Hulk/Thor figure that would be an angry Norse God with a metal mask that can swing from webs. The creation is up to you, but we’re also giving one Marvel Super Hero Mashers away.

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Sharing Olympic moments with Mike’s Hard Lemonade #Spon

The Olympics are a fun time because there is always a dependable answer to ‘what’s on television?’. You may not even know the sport or how it’s played, but the odds are that it’ll be interesting to watch. If you gather a couple friends then you can marvel at the speed, danger or athleticism of the sport and debate which you’d be best at. For the record I’d love to try skeleton. To help inspire our Olympic Moments, Mike’s Hard Lemonade supplied us with product and a gift card. All thoughts are our own.

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Marvel Super Hero Mashers mash ups toys fill an action toy void-review #MyMashUp

Marvel Super Hero Mashers mash up toys fill (or create) a void in the children’s toy world. You’ve got your block type toys (LEGO or KREO) that you physically make things like ships, creatures and your action toys that come fully assembled. These mash-ups toys from Hasbro have interchangeable parts where everything but the torso can be switched out to another hero or villain.

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Ninja, Ninja, Never Stop! is a manic fun book for kids

Ninja, Ninja, Never Stop! immediately grabs your attention because of its bright, vivid colors, large letters and the fact that it has multiple ninjas on the cover. As the dad to 2 young boys; and a fan of martial arts movies this book would seem to speak directly to me. One read through the book however and you- and your young audience will be hooked.

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