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Archive for March 11th, 2010

**CLOSED** Squiggle On The Go Review & Giveaway

Posted by Heather Manning On March - 11 - 2010

Congrats to Lily Kwan! Thanks to everyone who entered!

Oh did we have fun with this one.  I was waiting for us to go out to eat to use the Alphabet SQUIGGLE On-The-Go game.

As I posted the other day, we finally did!  And thank you to Random Line for saving our dinner because we had to wait forever for our food to get to our table.  Do you know what 4 kids are like when they are asked to sit patiently for close to an hour?  We kept plying Nano with chips, mild salsa, and water/sprite/apple juice/whatever anyone had in their glasses that wasn’t alcohol and passed the game around the table for 3 rounds.

That is the game that we got.  What you do is spin the little wheel, then write the letter that you get on the paper.  Next you let your imagination take over.  Draw a picture out of the letter.

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Katiana wondering what Jordan is up to.

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Jordan scribbling furiously.

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Katiana getting creative.

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Alyce spinning the wheel with daddy.

And here are some of our drawings.

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1st is Pato’s G, he started with a capital G but then switched to a sideways lower case g.  Jordan’s is the letter f.  Can you see it?  It starts as the guys head then curves around the left side.  The f’s line is the top of the guys shirt.  Alyce’s is the letter Y – that she received a lot of help on from Katiana, who doesn’t understand what LET YOUR SISTER DO IT means.

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Jordan’s J is the 1st one, the J starts at the top then goes under the helicopter, making the bottom of the body of it.  Mine – you can see what it is. :) Pato added Slimey’s night cap because I guess he needed it to be complete. Pato’s C is the handle on the candle holder.  I did have the grand prize for creativity with my bird below, then they took it away from me and gave it to Pato for his candle.  Then Jordan anointed himself grand master winner with the helicopter.

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Kat’s M – she was trying to see how many M’s she could fit in the picture.  And that’s my Q – the birds body – lower case Q.

We had so much fun!  This is a brilliant idea for long restaurant waits, traveling in the car, in the doctor’s waiting room, so many places where kids have to be patient.  I can see myself playing this with Alyce as we wait at soccer practice.  That’s where I spend A LOT of time waiting in the spring and fall.

This gets a big

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for keeping hungry kids occupied and happy instead of loud and obnoxious when it took way too long to get our dinner!  Brilliant product!

Make sure you check them out!  They are available at a variety of retailers including Barnes & Noble and Toys R Us.

The great people at Random Line have offered to give one of my readers an On-The-Go game!

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Go over to Random Line and tell me which Random Line On-The-Go Travel game you’d like to win?  (Look under education pads and drawing pads.)  I can’t guarantee that’s the one you get, but you might.

MAKE SURE YOU DO THE MAIN ENTRY BEFORE ANY OF THE EXTRA ENTRIES! THANKS!

EXTRA ENTRIES:

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  • FUN ONE FOR THIS GIVEAWAY – leave my kids’ a comment about their scribbles.  They were so excited we were posting them.  (1 entry) [you don’t have to comment on Heather and Pato’s – that’s my husband and I :) ]

Please leave a separate comment for each entry.

Giveaway ends on 4/2/10 at 11:59 PM CST. Only US entries. Winners will be chosen by random number generator. Winners will be emailed and must respond within 48 hours or an alternate winner will be chosen.

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Thank you to Random Line for providing me with the Alphabet SQUIGGLE On-The-Go game to review!

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RIP Corey Haim

Posted by Heather Manning On March - 11 - 2010

I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now.  Corey Haim died yesterday.  I feel like a little piece of my childhood died yesterday.  Dramatic I know, but if NKOTB was my favorite group, Corey Haim was my favorite actor.  In fact, before my walls were plastered with Joe and NKOTB, they were plastered with posters of Corey Haim.  I always left one wall covered with pictures of him.

I think my all time favorite Corey Haim movie was License To Drive.  I loved the Lost Boys, but License To Drive was the one I watched over and over again.

I know he struggled with addiction for quite awhile but I always hoped he’d beat it and make a comeback someday.  Now someday is never going to come.  It’s just sad.

If you want to leave a message for Corey’s family, on his official page they are saying to leave it on his My Space page.

There have been some celebrity deaths that have made me sad, but I’ve had a few tears for Corey.  He struggled so much for the past few years and I just kept hoping that he’d get turned around and be truly happy again.

Corey, rest in peace.  I’ll miss you.  I hope that you have flown a way to a place where you just can be you with no stress, no struggles,  no pain, just happiness and peace.

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December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010

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If you want to read some celeb tributes to Corey, there are some on Twitter.  And you can follow the hashtag #RIPCoreyHaim

I just saw one tweet from Adrianne Curry.  Don’t know why I’m posting this because I don’t follow her and truly, I can’t stand the woman.

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It was a loss of a beautiful life and we all know that he struggled with drug addiction – did she have to be so harsh about it?  When someone dies, have a little respect both for the person and for their family.

What a

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There, got myself a handy dandy graphic in case I ever want to swear.

Perez Hilton, another person I can’t stand has a graphic of all of her beautiful tweets in this post.  I don’t go to his site much, but I saw on twitter that he had a post for Adrianne and went to go read it.

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