Zippies are some of the coolest ID tags we have ever seen. First of all they are super heavy duty rubbery animal faces which won't fall apart, bend, or break on you in the first use. Most of them are pretty non gender specific and they come in a variety of different animal faces from bunnies to lizards to toads (my personal favorite) so there is bound to be one your child will like. Though all that aside that is not at all what I love about them. What I really love is their genius way that they hook on to your stuff, or should I say the several ways they can hook on to your stuff. The first and most obvious way is they come with a very heavy duty elastic cord and tightener which is great for hooking over the top of water bottles, hooking to backpacks, looping over small stuffed animals, and even attaching to your child's door knob or dresser knob so you can easily find your Zippie on the way to school. The second is a ring that is slightly under the draw string that opens up almost like a little key chain clasp which can be used for a key chain, hooking onto loops, belts, or really anything you can clip something on. The last way is you can actually take the Zippie off the ring itself and hook it onto a necklace, bracelet, or put it on your own ring, loop, or snap. Needless to say how you use your Zippies is totally up to you!
I have a Zippie on each of the boy's backpacks, and I try to remember to put them in my purse to identify our drinks as even though my boys are not reading yet they can still identify their animals to find their own drinks or even toys. You can learn more about Zippies as well as check out all the different designs on the Zippies website.
Now here comes the fun part!
Zippies has offered to give a set of five Zippies to one lucky reader!
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for Xbox 360 to give away to one lucky winner! Shrek Forever after is available right now on pretty much all of the gaming platforms, Xbox 360, DS, Wii, PS3 and PC! Connor has had a blast playing for almost an hour at a time and he is only THREE! No reading skills are required as the helpful pigs will talk you through the instructions but parents may have to help the younger players with some of the tough challenges. Older players and adults will really enjoy the four way multiplayer option available on some of the versions and the more complex fighting combos that are possible. You can play as Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, or Puss in Boots but you will need all four to complete some of the challenges!
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DVD which includes the Earth Day episode as well as seven more and 
! What a cool way to teach your kids more about the importance of taking care of the world around us!
mer I put Dylan inside his Baby Bonkie only wearing a diaper. The wrap itself at first looks like any other swaddle type wrap but until you go to put the baby inside do you notice a few diffrences. The biggest problems we have with swaddlers is Dylan will fight the wrap for a few minutes if he is really upset when you put him in. If he wiggles and gets his shoulders free the next thing that comes out are his arms and hands which only defeats the purpose and does not do anything to calm him or to keep him napping. Actually without being swaddled Dylan will NOT sleep on his back at all. So for me to successfully get him to nap sitting inclined in his baby seat during the day, which is the best way for him to nap with his acid reflux, I have to get him swaddled and KEEP him swaddled. Unfortunately I can't seem to wrap him myself in a way that he won't wiggle out of so until we got our Baby Bonkie I usually just gave up on the whole idea of having him nap sitting inclined.
website appears to be down but you can still purchase Baby Bonkies on 
as well as on many other online retailers. Baby Bonkie was kind enough to send us a 
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was an instant hit in this household. Connor has begun calling either his toys "boys" or "girls" and his trucks are always in the boy category. It's hilarious at times as I'll ask him what he is doing while he is playing and it's not uncommon to hear him say something like "I'm digging with my boys mommy!". I've always wondered if it was shows like this that started that with him.
is a 40 minute dvd deticated to just that! Not to mention there is a whole segment on this dvd where the kids actually get to pretend they are the operator. Connor likes to pretend while sitting inside of a plastic bin. That bin has been everything from a pirate ship to now a "digger" and its always fun to see how his imagination takes off with him. We also just love the sing along included by James Coffey! The only problem is that you see quite a few John Deere toys in John Deere Earth Mover Action and Connor asks me about a thousand times if he could "have that". Overall it's a great dvd for all those construction vehicle crazy little boys out there!
