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Keep Kids Warm: Beep Beep BabbaCover

The BabbaCover is a warm fleece universal infant carseat cover with a cotton lining. It has some great features such as side pockets, two windows, and a universal fit. It makes a great cover for colder months and it keeps your baby warm, dry, and shielded from airborne illness.

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TOYS

Russ Train Depot Activity Set...

Price Tag: $24.95
Official URL: www.russberrie.com
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Little kids love trains, and that love for trains often starts young. This little train set from Russ Berrie “Bright Beginnings” is great for children that are too young to master toy trains with tracks and small hard parts.
This playset has a “Depot” carrying case with a handle, a conductor [...]

CLOTHING & FOOTWEAR

Buddhi Wear...

Price Tag:мебели $12.99-32.00
Official URL: buddhiwear.com
BuddhiWear Organics is a clothing company created by a woman who was frustrated with the lack of eco-friendly and affordable clothing available on the market. So she decided to create her own line. BuddhiWear offers styles for all members of the family and will appeal to anyone on your [...]

Keep Kids Warm: Charlee Kat*z Hat and Flower Brooch

Thick, fuzzy and adorably cute, these little bucket hats will warm your heart (and your little one’s head). These little hats have a stylish shape that is part bucket hat, part top hat. On their own they have a great sophisticated look that is just adorable on babies. Add on a flower brooch and the hat transforms into this trendy modern-day Roaring 20’s flapper style hat. Talk about personality!

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BOOKS FOR KIDS

Murphy’s Safety Songs...

List Price: $19.95
Official URL: www.murphysbone.com
Author: Tim Young
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“Murphy’s Safety Songs” is a book and CD that teaches children about dog safety and care. Children, especially young children, learn very quickly through songs, which makes the lessons in this book very easy for them to remember and absorb even if they’re not yet able to read.
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BOOKS ON PARENTING

How to Talk to Your Child’s Doctor...

List Price: $18.95
Author: Christopher M. Johnson, MD
Publisher: Prometheus Books (www.prometheusbooks.com)
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It is fall and quickly moving to winter. Our children are in school or daycare, flu season starting up, and cold weather has us worried about our children becoming ill. Assuming they haven’t already had a case or two of sniffles.
Illness means doctors. Like [...]

Keep Kids Warm: Napwell

This great button-free, zipper-free, snap-free, fastener-free toddler and preschooler blanket wrap will keep your little one warm and snug long after they’ve outgrown most buntings. Its no-muss no-fuss design is a sanity saver for parents whose children are more mobile.

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BOOKS FOR KIDS

Murphy’s Safety Songs...

List Price: $19.95
Official URL: www.murphysbone.com
Author: Tim Young
Rating:
“Murphy’s Safety Songs” is a book and CD that teaches children about dog safety and care. Children, especially young children, learn very quickly through songs, which makes the lessons in this book very easy for them to remember and absorb even if they’re not yet able to read.
THE [...]

BOOKS ON PARENTING

How to Talk to Your Child’s Doctor...

List Price: $18.95
Author: Christopher M. Johnson, MD
Publisher: Prometheus Books (www.prometheusbooks.com)
Rating:
It is fall and quickly moving to winter. Our children are in school or daycare, flu season starting up, and cold weather has us worried about our children becoming ill. Assuming they haven’t already had a case or two of sniffles.
Illness means doctors. Like [...]

CDs & MUSIC

Rocketship Run!...

Price Tag: $18.98
Official URL: www.twotomatoes.com
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Lots of fun! “Rocketship Run” by the Laurie Berkner Band (with Susie Lampert and Adam Bernstein) is a little bit of 70’s indie, merged with a classic sense of childhood folk. 
The CD starts out a little bit more geared toward younger kids of 1-5 and steadily improves as the CD progresses. [...]

DVDS & GAMES

Gratitude Games (digital delivery)...

Price Tag: Buy on/before December 25 for $19.99 (special price)
Official URL: gratitudegames.com
Age Range: 4+ (Or any child that has the langage skills necessary for  discussing gratitude)
Rating:
These “Gratitude” games by LeSara Firefox had me skeptical at first. I’m nothing if not a hardened New Yorker these days. Grateful for little, irritated by much. But then [...]