Happy Friday

 

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have fun plans for Labor Day. My goal is to organize all the laundry, organize the closets, and get ready for BLOG FEST on Sept 10-12! So excited for that!
Welcome everyone from Its Friday Im Hopping. Please leave me a comment with your blog in it so I can follow you back. Plus if you want to add my twitter or facebook tell me you have and I will add yours too!

Have a great weekend!

Wholesale Costume Club Review

I am really excited for Halloween this year. This will be my little boys first Halloween! When I was a kid Halloween was filled with so much fun and excitement! We always dressed up, decorated the house, trick or treated and passed out candy as it became to late for us kids to be out. I have very fond memories of being a witch, a pumpkin, and many more creatures. I want to make every Halloween for my little boy just as wonderful and full of amazement as my Halloweens were. I found a great partner in making those Halloween adventures possible. The Wholesale Costume Club offers scary and cute costumes for all ages. Everything from vampires, witches, and dinosaurs to the not so scary pumpkins, super heroes, and cowboys.  They also have character favorites such as Woody and Buzz from Toy Story, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Barney and Friends, Elmo, Winnie the Pooh and friends, Madeline, Scooby Doo, Star Wars, and Yo Gabba Gabba! There are too many great costumes to list!

Out of all the Infant/Toddler costumes we picked for my little guy to be a LOBSTER! I thought this would be a wonderful and unique creature for my son to be on his first Halloween. He looks so cute in his costume and was smiling and laughing as he was wearing it. It fit him perfect to the size I ordered and has a Velcro neck fastener to cover the zipper. He was loving wearing the head part of the costume and pulled on his antennae with delight. His dads face lit up with a huge smile when I showed him, his dad LOVES to eat lobster! We both agree the quality of the costume is excellent and will hold up to the wiggling and crawling our son does. The colors are vibrant and the claws and tail were the perfect lobster body. We will have to have him wear it for more than Halloween just for fun!  We even went in the back yard after dark to test the warmth of the costume and it kept our little guy comfy and warm.  You can have this lobster costume for your little one for only $36.98 non member price. Your kids only have so many Halloweens to experience as a child so make this Halloween special by buying your costume at Wholesale Costume Club.

Wholesale Costume Club offers low prices well below retail but offers an even greater discount for members of their site. For ONLY $5 a year you can have access to the lowest prices with no minimum purchase requirements. They will NOT send you any products during the year so need to worry about unwanted items and they will NOT auto renew your membership.  They do offer you a cheaper shipping discount. Shipping for members starts at $5.99. This would be a great way to save money on costumes all year long for events such as plays, costume parties, fundraisers, or just general fun! I had my little guy in a monkey costume in January just because it was so cute! No holiday or special event needed to put a smile on your face from a cutie in a costume. So if you are a member or not you will get great savings on all your costume needs.

Remember to check back at Wholesale Costume Club for Christmas costumes. Last year my little guy was Santa this year maybe and elf or reindeer!

* This post is my honest opinion and may vary from other opinions. I was not paid for this post. I was provided for free one lobster costume to review.

Sock 'n Boots Book Review

Sock 'n Boots Book Review

I loved to read books to my son. I feel it is a great learning experience and chance to bond with him. I try to select books for him that reflect what I want to teach him. Recently I had the opportunity to review a new book Sock 'n Boots: Share . My first thought was the characters are so cute because they go together, like peanut butter and jelly! My second thought is that they are fun characters and provide a colorful experience as my son learns. The detail of illustrations are wonderful. There is a lot going on in the background like bugs, birds and flowers and it makes for a very visual experience as you read the book.  My son listened and touched the colorful pictures as I read it to him. He smiled when I decided to read it to him a few times more. He loves to listen to books that have a rhythmic rhyme to them like this book does.

This book is about learning to share. The book offers a question in the beginning for the theme and shares a story about answering the question.  I thought this was a great idea to make a child really listen to the story to see if they can find the answer. Plus it gives the opportunity to discuss the lesson the book is trying to teach.  The book is simple and an easy read, one you can have your small child read back to you. Overall we loved the story and how they overcame obstacles together as a team to share and have a solution.

I look forward to the upcoming Sock 'n Boots: Afraid of the Dark and Sock 'n Boots: Play it Safe.

You can buy this cute book on Amazon here or read more about the book at their website here.

You can follow Sock 'n Boots on twitter for updates about new books coming soon.

* This post is my honest opinion and may vary from other opinions. I was not paid for this post. I was provided for free the book to review.

Funky Monkey Snack Review

Recently I was sent a package of Funky Monkey Fruit Snacks to review. I was very excited because our family loves to eat dried fruit. To my surprise this was very different from most dried fruit because it is freeze dried which makes for a crunchy sweet snack. These snacks are 100% real fruit no sugar added, a raw vegan food, peanut and tree nut free (great snack for play dates where children may have allergies) and their unique freeze dry process helps retain the flavor and nutrients of the fruit. Funky Monkey snacks contain no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives and NO high fructose corn syrup, that is a huge must for any snacks we buy. Plus each ounce of Funky Monkey snacks contain 3 servings of fruit. The snacks come in the flavors:
Applemon: apple and organic cinnamon
Bananamon: organic banana and organic cinnamon
Carnaval Mix: organic banana, organic pineapple, apple and papaya
Jivealime: organic pineapple and organic lime juice
MangOJ: mango and orange juice
Pink Pineapple: pineapple and guava
Purple Funk: organic banana and organic acai

The two flavors we enjoyed the most are the Banana varieties. Bananamon (banana and cinnamon) and Purple Funk (bananas and acai). I feel like most kids and adults would enjoy these flavors.

The second flavors we enjoyed are the Applemon (apples and cinnamon), my favorite by far but not the overall of everyone who tried them, and the MangOJ (mango and orange juice).

These three flavors were our least favorite. Although I am sure other people may enjoy the flavors I realize we are not the most adventuress of tasters. We did enjoy eating the pineapple pieces out of the Carnival mix!

These snacks would also be great to take on long trips, camping, for an emergency pack, to donate to families who need food, to send overseas or to college students. The long shelf live allows these snacks to be very useful for long term storing.

You can purchase Funky Monkey Snacks at Target, Whole Foods, Safeway, and online at Amazon.com.

You can play some fun activities on their site or follow them on twitter.

* This post is my own opinion and may vary from other opinions. I was not paid for this post. I was provided the snacks in the pictures for free to take part in this review.

Safeway Back To School Contest

Safeway Back To School Contest is a contest to win $5,000 back to school shopping spree. You can also instantly win one of 1,000 of grocery gift cards when you play here. This contest is for the promo going on at Safeway where 10% of your purchase is given to schools when you buy participating products form the store. Just look for tags in the stores to see if the item qualifies. This promo is going on now until Sept. 14, 2010. So hurry in and get money back for your school.