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Muddy Paws’ New Friends and Bunny Loves to Read, book review

One of the great things about being a parent is re-reading your favorite children’s books to your children. Of course another great thing is discovering new books that will become their favorites that they’ll read to their children. Along the way though, you’ll discover what I call library, or stock books that won’t be elevated to the status of an heirloom. They’re entertaining for what they are, and they might become some child’s favorite book, but just weren’t enjoyed by your child. Muddy Paws’ New Friends by Steve Smallman and Simon Mendez and Bunny Loves to Read by Peter Bently and Deborah Melmon are in that category.

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Hanging out in the Skylanders SWAP Force video game truck

The other week we were offered the chance to host a video game that was stocked with Skylanders SWAP Force. Skylanders SWAP Force takes some of the characters from the original game with and puts them in a new world with a new element-swapability. Take the top half from one, switch it out with the bottom from another and you’ve got the powers of two Skylanders in one.

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The NYNE NB-200 Bluetooth Speaker: easy set up, great sound

We received a NYNE NB-200 Bluetooth Speaker for review purposes. It’s a Bluetooth speaker and the company really wants you to know that it can be mounted to your bicycle handlebars. A Bluetooth speaker wasn’t something that was on the top of Tech Gadgets I Need list. However, after using it for a while I’ve discovered that, the sound from my tablet’s speakers are horrible and that the NYNE is a fabulous tool to make and receive phone calls on.

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A look at the 11 Halloween ComicFest Mini Comics

The other day we read over 4 of the 11 full size comics that were available for Halloween ComicFest. These are free comics that you can pick up at your local comic book store. Several publishers also released 11 mini comics that are also free. They ranged across the board from knock someone down to get it (joking…hello, but GREAT), good to OK for their fan base.

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Create 2 Destroy: vote, build, have fun, vote and win

So recently we participated in a campaign with Crayola and Create 2 Destroy. They provided us with a Create 2 Destroy set and asked us to let a rampaging 4 year old (and me!) create things and destroy them with a dinosaur and rock throwing volcano. Yes, it’s a voting then-but the punch line is, if our video has the most mojo then we’ll give away 10 Create 2 Destroy sets.

Here’s our video. If you think it rocks then you can follow the link and vote, remember it’s a vote for us and for you (we say in our best cheesy politician voice).

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Free Halloween music playlist from Disney

For our oldest son’s Halloween party at school we were responsible for the drinks, cookies and music. I asked my wife if she had Thriller on the MP3 player. Thriller is a lot of parent’s default Halloween music, more for the memories of the video than the music itself. It was then when I was about to dust off my moonwalk shoes that I found about a family friendly free Halloween music for kids playlist that Disney put out.

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A look at some of the full sized comics from Halloween ComicFest

This past weekend was Halloween ComicFest at your local comic book store. They had 11 comics that were full sized and 11 that were mini sized-all of them free. The nice folks at Diamond Comics were nice enough to send me some of them. Here’s a look at 4 of the full sized comics to see if they’re worth grabbing up.

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How to make daylight savings time easier on small children

Parents to children know that something strange happens to them on Daylight Savings Time. Specifically in the fall when folks in the United States are coming off Daylight Savings Time, ie, losing an hour, young children may behave differently. Differently, waking up at odd times, being crabby or otherwise behaving unlike the angels that they normally are.

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