Category: Toys

It’s the first day of fall! So obviously my brain is starting to focus on the upcoming holiday season.

During the summer I went to The Big Toy Book’s Sweet Suite event in Manhattan, which is an annual party to connect bloggers (basically “mommy bloggers”) with companies and their products. This year it was part of a series of events called Blogger Bash, but I only attended Sweet Suite.

I went as press for GeekMom, since we’re working on our holiday gift guides. And there will be a lot of cool stuff for the holidays this year, ya’ll.

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makerfaire1Thinker Linkers are one of the big things on our holiday radar this year. We took H to Maker Faire New York last month, and these full-size wooden building sets were out for kids to play with. She immediately took to them and dove right in with the older kids, picking up planks and trying to get in on the innovation. She was so enthusiastic that some of the older kids started an alliance, with a boy taking charge and warning the other kids not to let H near the structures they were building (she does have a penchant for destruction, but she just wanted to play).

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Happy Holidays! I hope everyone’s Christmas was as merry as ours!

I know I’ve mainly been posting about H’s Firsts lately, but there have been a lot of them all at once. This one I’m actually really excited about. I’ve been working on an Advent calendar to match the ones I made for Adam and myself last year. I followed the exact same tweaked tutorial from The Purl Bee and finished hers last week.

Read more on HFR’s Sensory Advent Calendar…

Steve Jobs got me good. I can’t get enough of this thing. I’m using an Apple photo of the iPad because I’m writing this post from mine, trying to figure out how to blog on it. And I’m in Philadelphia with a dead camera battery and limited resources, so…stock photo. If it posts, we’ll see if i actually got this to work.

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