Thursday, April 23, 2009

Barbie Thumbelina DVD Winner

The Barbie Thumbelina DVD winner is number...












Which translates to Tami. Congratulations! I'll be sending you an email shortly.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat Review & Giveaway

First there's the infant car seat, then the convertible car seat, then a first booster, sometimes followed by a second booster. Car seats are like maternity clothes, you think you're going to need just one kind, then you realize that little bodies grow the exact same way your pregnant body grew. Obvious, right? But who would have also guessed that their car seat needs would grow right along with them?

The beauty of the Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat is that it allows your child to grow at his own rate. Start out using it as a 5 point harness slightly reclined car seat and as your child grows graduate to using it as a booster with a supportive back, and finally as a backless booster. The fact that you only have to buy one car seat that does all three is really quite ingenious!

Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat Pros:
- Memory foam padding for extra comfort.
- Adjustable headrest.
- Large range of patterns and colors to chose from.
- Cup holder and secret armrest compartment for stashing toys.
- Three reclining positions.
- Extended five point harness designed to hold a 65lb child.
- Graco build and attention to detail.
- It retails between $150 and $180, a really great price for such a highly safety rated car seat.

Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat Cons:
- The Nautilus isn't designed to be used rear facing. So if your child outgrows his infant car seat before turning one you'll need to also purchase a convertible car seat until he can sit forward facing.
- It's not the easiest car seat to take apart and clean in case of a spill or a car sick incident. That said, once you have managed to remove the car seat cover all of it is fully machine washable!

Graco Nautilus 3-in-1 Car Seat Giveaway!

I am beyond thrilled to be giving away a Nautilus car seat to one lucky Lemonade Stand winner!

To enter:
1) Visit the Nautilus section of the Graco Baby website and leave a comment letting me know which Nautilus car seat pattern you covet.
2) Explore the rest of the Graco Baby website and let me know what other products you love.
3) Tell me about your favorite Graco product.
4) Subscribe to this blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
5) Subscribe to my other blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
6) Tweet, email, blog about this giveaway.

That's a grand total of 8 ways you can enter! Please remember to leave me a way to contact you. And please, please, please, leave a separate comment for each of your entries. I can't credit you for each of them if you don't.

Giveaway ends Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 10pm PST.
****This giveaway is officially closed!****
Thank you for stopping by. Make sure to check out all my other great giveaways!

I was in no way compensated for this review or this giveaway and I am only affiliated with Graco as a Brand Ambassador which is a non paying position.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Spud Bunny Giveaway Winner

The winner for the Spud Bunny Mr Potato Head is...











... which translates to... Sarah Walton!
Congratulations Sarah! I'm emailing you right now.

Quick note. Sarah was not the first winner that Random.org picked. The first winner entered multiple times and didn't leave a way for me to contact her. Please. If you enter giveaways, here, anywhere, make sure the blogger can contact you!

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Celebrating Earth Day with Barbie and Thumbelina (Giveaway!)

I'm excited to say that here at The Lemonade Stand we're celebrating Earth Day with Barbie's very own Thumbelina. No really, it's true!

First we watched the Barbie Thumbelina movie. Over and over and over again. I didn't have my hopes up when I first popped it into the DVD player, because, well, I might have a bit of a preconceived notion of "straight to DVD" movies, but the movie delivered in a big way. It's a lovely story about a spoiled little girl who gets over herself by learning a bit about nature and what she can do to save the field inhabited by Thumbelina's people, the Twillerbees.

The lessons in the movie aren't overbearing and the story stands up to being told over and over again, which is a great thing, because I have a feeling we're not done watching it yet!

Once C was good and obsessed familiar with the movie I broke out the Thumbelina Doll. First of all, I have to praise Mattel for the awesome ecofriendly 100% recyclable packaging. Nothing like a product that does what it preaches. The doll was relatively easy to take out, and, once I'd put all the ties and cardboard in the recycling bin I turned my attention to figuring out the product itself.

Our Thumbelina Doll came with a nifty little gadget that allows her to hide in her flower and pop out at the touch of a button. After a few tries C figured out how much strength to apply to get the mechanism to work and was delighted with the effect. It's a cute toy, which will undoubtedly get lots of play in our house!

Barbie Thumbelina Pros:
- The movie is sweet and teaches a great ecofriendly lesson just in time for Earth Day. Your child will walk away with a greater respect for flowers and the secrets they might contain.
- The doll is nicely constructed and opens the door to a whole new world of play.

Barbie Thumbelina Cons:
- The mechanism on the toy is a bit hard to work for little hands and I think that it will soon be forgotten in favor of more imaginative play in our house. C would rather let Thumbelina fly through the sky than pop out of her flower, but maybe that's just us!

All in all, I'm giving the Barbie Thumbelina line a big thumbs up. It's a lovely alternative to the more traditional Barbies and to those other flying characters, if you know what I mean. wink wink.

Barbie Thumbelina Giveaway:
We're giving away one Barbie Thumbelina Movie to a lucky Lemonade Stand winner!

To enter:
1) Leave a comment letting me know about your own or your child's Barbie memories.
2) Tell me what you have planned for Earth Day 2009 or how you teach your child about the importance of nature.
3) Subscribe to this blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
4) Subscribe to my other blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
5) Tweet, email, blog about this giveaway.

That's a grand total of 7 ways you can enter! Please remember to leave me a way to contact you. And please, please, please, leave a separate comment for each of your entries. I can't credit you for each of them if you don't.

Giveaway ends Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 10pm PST, just in time for Earth Day! This giveaway is officially closed! Thank you for stopping by. Make sure to check out all my other great giveaways!

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Great Crayola Spring Giveaway Winner!

Drum roll please....

The winner of the Great Crayola Spring Giveaway Winner is...... which translates to Summer!

Congratulations Summer! I hope you have a blast with all the Crayola goodness!

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Corneille - The Birth of Cornelius CD Winner

The winner of The Birth of CorneliusCD is...

... which translates to "Janet and Maya" of Maya's Heartsong.

Congratulations Janet! I hope you enjoy the new music in your life!


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Spud Bunny - Review and Giveaway

Once there was a potato Bunny. He had big floppy ears and adorable bunny slipper shoes, but he was a lonely bunny. All his other spud friends sported simple round ears and big toothy smiles. He always felt out of place around them.

Then, one day, much to his utter delight, he met another Spud bunny. A girl Spud Bunny. She had big floppy ears, two perfect front teeth, and even better, she had the same bunny slippers as him.
It was love at first sight.
They lived happily ever after.
And even had a little spud, who, for some odd reason
didn't share his parents endearing characteristics,
but he was cute enough. So it was all OK.
Spud Bunny Pros:
- Spud Bunny is part of the Mr Potato Head family, he's just got slightly longer ears and teeth than his regular spud buddies. What that means is that all his parts are interchangeable with all your other Mr Potato Head parts, which can lead to some pretty fun characters!

Spud Bunny Cons:
- Just like the Easter Bunny, Spud Bunny only comes once a year, so snap him up quick or you'll have to wait another year.

Spud Bunny Giveaway:
I have one adorable Spud Bunny to give away to a lucky Lemonade Stand reader!

To enter:
1) Visit the Hasbro Mr. Potato Head page. Tell me which is your favorite Spud.
2) Leave a comment letting me know about your own or your child's Mr. Potato Head memories.
3) Check out the fun Hasbro games and let me know which one you might try with your child.
4) Subscribe to this blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
5) Subscribe to my other blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
6) Tweet, email, blog about this giveaway.

That's a grand total of 8 ways you can enter! Please remember to leave me a way to contact you. And please, please, please, leave a separate comment for each of your entries. I can't credit you for each of them if you don't.

Giveaway ends Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 10pm PST. This giveaway is officially closed! Thank you for stopping by. Make sure to check out all my other great giveaways!

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Higher Higher & Happy Baby Sad Baby - Reviews of the Leslie Patricelli books

You all know how much we love books around here, so you won't be surprised to learn that we've found more books that we love. Until I received two Leslie Patricelli books I can't say I'd ever noticed her books on shelves before, now I'm resisting the urge to go out and buy the whole collection.

Baby Happy Baby Sad is a simple board book showing the roller-coaster of emotions that babies confront every day. Happy to have ice cream! Sad when you drop it! Sad when you slip! Happy again when mommy picks you up!

Little L is just learning to pick up on emotional cues and she loves to flip through the pages pointing out the sad babies. She always asks "Why cwayin?" Then we talk about why the baby is sad and what makes him happy again. Suggested price $6.99.

Higher! Higher! is just as simple, but with paper pages instead. Gorgeous pictures show the simple tale of a quasi-magical ride through the air on the upswing of a slide. C loves to pretend that she's the little girl flying so high, and Little L just gets a kick out of reading the story to herself and noticing all the little details on the page - the cat in the window of the skyscraper, the doggy at the window of the plane. Suggested price $15.99, but on "just released" sale at Amazon right now.

Baby Happy Baby Sad & Higher! Higher! pros:
- Gorgeous images that look like they've been painted on canvas before being turned into whimsical books.
- Sweet characters that any child could easily relate to.
- Very simple and effective story lines that babies and young children never tire of hearing over and over again.

Baby Happy Baby Sad & Higher! Higher! cons:
- Well, the only con here, and I'd like to point out that M is the only one with this issue, the stories are very repetitive and simple. He gets tired of repeating the same words over and over again. I disagree. I think the simplicity of the words is what makes these books so much fun!

Clearly C and Little L agree with me!




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Monday, April 6, 2009

Yoplus Yoplait Winner

Sorry for the delay in posting this, I plead too many germs and too little sleep!

The THREE winners for the Yoplus Yoplait gift pack are:

Which translates to:
Celeste
MaddyRu
Amy

Congratulations girls! Your prize packs will be coming soon!

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Great Crayola Spring Giveaway!

See that big smile over there on the face of the Crayola logo? It's big, right? But not half as big as the smile that is going to be on your face when you see what Crayola is giving away to one of my lucky readers.

We may all be struggling financially, but Crayola is there for us! All of the products being given away in this incredible prize pack (valued at $80!) retail for under $30 with the majority selling for under $10. Best of all, when you give your child a Crayola product you know you're giving them something that's well made and will fuel their imagination and creative side.

The prize pack consists of the following products. Scroll down to see how you can enter to win it!

Crayola Beginnings Baby Slide & See -a magical way to introduce babies to their first coloring experience.

Crayola Beginnings TaDoodles Ta-Doodler
- a soft and cuddly bear buddy that becomes a canvas for your child’s imagination.

Crayola Beginnings Tub Time Tracers
- bring colorful, creative fun to toddler’s bath time.

Color Surge Camp Rock
- give fans of the hit Disney movie a chance to put their favorite stars in a spotlight of brilliant colors.

Crayola Sidewalk Crayons - offer kids more than pretty pastels to create outdoor masterpieces.

Pip-Squeaks Colored pencils - smaller than their full-size Crayola counterparts, but they pack a big punch of bold color that inspires kids to travel wherever their creativity takes them.

Pip-Squeaks Glitter Glue - the perfect compact size for jazzing up art projects with bright, bold shimmering colors.

Crayola Color Switchers - dual-ended markers that allow kids to magically change the colors of their drawings with a swoosh of the “color switch” tip.

Crayola Window Crayons - creamy, colorful drawing tools that let kids transform car windows, mirrors and other glass surfaces into instant decorations.
To Enter The Great Crayola Spring Giveaway:

1) Leave a comment letting me know about your absolute favorite Crayola product.
2) Leave a comment letting me know which of the prize pack products you'd be most excited to get.
3) Visit the Crayola Craft page or Games and Fun page and tell me which activity you'd most like to try with your child.
4) Subscribe to this blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
5) Subscribe to my other blog's feed. Leave a comment telling me you subscribed.
6) Tweet, email, blog about this giveaway.

That's a grand total of 8 ways you can enter! Please remember to leave me a way to contact you. And please, please, please, leave a separate comment for each of your entries. I can't credit you for each of them if you don't.

Giveaway ends Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 10pm PST. This giveaway is officially closed! Thank you for stopping by. Make sure to check out all my other great giveaways!

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

LeapFrog Tag Reader Winner!

Congratulations to Dina grand winner of the LeapFrog Tag Reader and two books!

Dina, author of Just Another New Blog, requested Olivia and Madagascar 2, which she'll be getting along with her Tag Reader.

Thank you to everyone for all your entries and for participating in 1 Million Hours Reading Pledge! It's been an exiting month!


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