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Review: I Love Toy Trains DVDs and Store

June 11th, 2007 by Elaine · 4 Comments

Our son Sammy loves anything remotely related to trains. He likes to read about trains and tracks, draw and color them, watch real trains, play with toy trains, and watch movies and cartoons about trains.
Sammy’s favorite movies are the “I Love Toy Trains” DVDs. He enjoys the entire series, which consists […]

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Review: TrueBlue Blueberry Juice

May 22nd, 2007 by Elaine · 2 Comments

The kind folks at TrueBlue Blueberry Juice sent us two free samples of their products. We were able to taste the Blueberry Juice and the Blueberry Pomegranate. TrueBlue also comes in Blueberry Green Tea and Blueberry Cranberry. There is nutritional information on the website about Blueberry Raspberry, Blueberry Blackberry, LiteBlue Blueberry, […]

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Review: Swiffer Carpet Flick

February 28th, 2007 by Elaine · 4 Comments

My son Sammy just loves to watch me vacuum. He pretends that many of his toys are vacuums (toy weed whacker, golf clubs, etc.). As soon as we saw the television commercial for the Swiffer Carpet Flick, we knew we had to get it for him.
To Sammy’s delight, the handle comes in […]

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Stuff Your Baby Doesn’t Need

January 12th, 2007 by Marlo · 4 Comments

Ben of Open Switch (the creative genius behind this great Wordpress the Unsleepable theme) posted a list of 6 Baby Accessories You Don’t Need. The six items he writes about in his blog are:

Diaper Genie
Boppy
Baby Bathtub
Bottle Warmer
Baby Wipes Warmer
Shopping Cart / High Chair Cover

I have disagree with number two though, the Boppy pillow. […]

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Most Infant Car Seats Failed Crash Tests

January 5th, 2007 by Marlo · No Comments

Consumer Reports is issuing a safety alert for parents with infant car seats. In their latest issue, they tested 12 infant car seats. Nine of them performed poorly.
The important information about the report is quoted below:

When we crash-tested infant car seats at the higher speeds vehicles routinely withstand, most failed disastrously. The car seats […]

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