Yeah, I know, they are technically called Sidekicks, but c’mon, any Skylanders fanatic who also happens to be a young girl is going to instantly turn these pint-sized Sidekicks into a brand new mommy/baby game within minutes. Well, maybe not every girl, but my pair had mommy Stealth Elf and […]
Thank you to LeapFrog for sponsoring this review. For more information about the LeapFrog Tag Human Body Discovery Pack, please visit their website #LeapFrogTag #spon ********** Science. Girls. There is a known educational chasm between these two words. Thankfully, there are daring people who care to bridge the widening gap; […]
********** We had a Leapfrog reading device at one point. A clunky plastic thing that you’d place a paperback-ish book inside and press down on with a special chubby pen. This was years ago, when the Bear was a wee lass. We didn’t care much for it then, and unlike […]
Later on this month, Blip Toys, the makers of Squinkies, will launch a brand new toy line with a name that that rolls of the tongue about as well as matriculated python. To understand O.O.T.W. (which stands for Out Of This World), simply imagine hard plastic Squinkies, only about 500x […]
We don’t have central air. I don’t want central air. It’s not that I dislike being cool, that’s not the problem. The issue is that I grew up in a temperature controlled home and as a kid became way too enamored with being hermetically sealed. The whole thing, like a […]
Anything that can induce as much genuine gut-laughter as the card & prop game 100 Wacky Things is destined to go down as nothing less than a legendary family activity. The game is built around a series of sometimes and all the time mandated actions on cards that may at […]
One way to judge the popularity of a toy is to hand it, as a complete surprise, to a child who’s age and gender are smack dab in the middle of the product’s target demographic. If you’ll allow me to extrapolate the reaction of a single 6-year-old to Cepia’s colorful […]
It can’t be helped. Whether it’s spoons, baby socks, or Squinkies, we all love tiny things in this house. The spoons are for yogurt. The socks re-purposed as baby doll clothes. And the Squinkies, well, they’ve proved extremely adaptable. My creative daughters have put them in an array of funny […]
