toys

Toy Fair 2010: Hasbro Blogger Event and Giveaway!

February 18, 2010

I was invited by Hasbro to an exclusive blogger breakfast to check out their cool new toys they are showcasing at the 2010 Toy Fair in New York City. Go here to read about the fun day I had! Take a peak! (picture by Ana Garza) Tweet

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A Trip to Stepping Stones Museum in Connecticut

August 23, 2009

Things are very busy here. We started to move boxes and furniture to our new home, and all of a sudden I have a lot of editing work. This always happens — I didn’t have much to do for a month and therefore blogged a lot, and now I have plenty of editing work (I’m [...]

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Breastfeeding and Entertaining a Toddler on a Plane

June 14, 2009

Greetings from Germany! Landon and I flew from Newark, NY, to Hamburg, Germany, a few days ago to visit Nani and Opa. My mother picked us up and we arrived in my former hometown Bremen about 1 1/2 hours later. Landon had been a doll on the plane. It was the first time that we [...]

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Excessive Toy Packaging Unsafe and Wasteful

May 1, 2009

I promised you the story and the pictures of opening the packaging of a new toy for Landon. Don bought him this noisy backhoe that came in the most ridiculous packaging I have ever seen. It was tied down by tiny screws, of all things, and it took us 10 minutes to open it! We [...]

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Save Your Child’s Hearing — Avoid Noisy Toys

April 16, 2009

I wanted to let you know what happened after my first post about noisy toys and finding out that they can be very dangerous for children’s hearing. I went through all of Landon’s noisy toys and listened to them. I have to tell you, I tossed out most of the ones that made so many [...]