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Diaperpaloooooza at Rite Aid this week!

It’s been SOOO long since I’ve hit a good diaper deal, that I just HAD to post about it!  Rite Aid totally came through for me this week!  I am now 5 jumbo packs of Pampers richer.  And not that much poorer!  Check out this post on Southern Savers for the easy version of this deal.  Mine was of course more complicated. 🙂

I did three total transactions over two days.  Because, I realized I could go back for more!  I’ll explain.

My first transaction was pretty straightforward:

2 packs Pampers $19.98 ($9.99 each)

2 packs refill Pampers wipes $11.98 ($5.99 each)

total = $31.96

-$2 Pampers coupon from P&G mailer

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$1.50 two 75 cents off Pampers wipes coupon from coupons.com

-$2 +UP Rewards from last week’s visit

= $24.96 + tax, and I got back a $10 +UP reward for buying $30 worth of P&G products

NOW – the fun part.  The diapers also counted for a promo where you buy $25 worth of baby care products, you get back a $5 +UP Reward.  So I had $20 towards that reward. Sadly the wipes didn’t count for that one, but I needed wipes so I got ’em.  Therefore, I did another transaction to get this reward and some other things. I bought:

1 Pampers jumbo pack $9.99

1 Playtex Winnie-the-Pooh cup $4.49 ($4.99  but I got my 10% wellness + discount on it since it was “regular price”)

1 Colgate 360 toothbrush – clearance $1.99

4 Cadbury creme eggs $2.36 (you know, because I needed some FILLERS, not because I am obsessed with them)

total = $18.83

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$4 Playtex baby item Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$2 Colgate toothbrush Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$.75 cents Colgate printable coupon from coupons.com

-$10 +UP Rewards from previous transaction

= 58 cents + tax, and I got back the $5 +UP Reward for buying $25 worth of baby products

THEN, I realized from my receipt that the limit on baby product deal was TWO.  SO I could do that again.  I had $5 credit toward that because I’d bought $30 worth of Pampers and you only needed $25 to get the reward.  So, if I bought 2 more jumbo packs of Pampers, I’d get another $5 +UP Reward.  BONUS – I’d also gotten a $2 off Playtex coupon in my email by signing up for Playtex’s newsletter. So, I planned to get another sippy cup and get overage.  Also, my Rite Aid had another clearance Colgate toothbrush so I planned to get another one of those as well and get overage.  My plan worked ALMOST perfectly –  I somehow lost one of my Pampers coupons! So I cost myself $1.50 with that mistake but it all still went pretty well.  I got:

Two more jumbo packs of Pampers $19.98 ($9.99 each)

Playtex Winnie-the-Pooh cup $4.49

Colgate toothbrush clearance $1.99

total= $26.46

-$1.50 Pampers coupon from coupons.com

-$4 Playtex Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$2 Playtex manufacturer’s coupon

-$2 Colgate Rite Aid in-ad coupon

-$.75 Colgate manufacturer’s coupon from SS insert

-$5 +UP Rewards from yesterday’s transaction

=$11.21 + tax, and I got back another$5 +UP Reward

So, all in all I spent $36.75 + tax for 5 jumbo packs of Pampers, two refill packs of wipes, two Playtex sippy cups, two Colgate toothbrushes, and 4 Cadbury eggs.

And I have $5 +UP Rewards for next time. I. AM. HAPPY!

Please Note!!!!! The baby care deal where you get the extra $5 +UP, is over TOMORROW, March 6th.  The P&G deal, where you get $10 +UP, is good all week.

One  other note: We REALLY needed wipes and we only had 1.5 packs of diapers left. I was getting nervous about both of these situations.  Also, just yesterday morning before I saw this deal I was complaining to Bobby that we were low on sippy cups.  I see this deal as just another way God meets our needs and honors my attempts to be frugal.  And I want to make sure I say that loudly!

Happy Shopping!

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D is for Drama

I named my daughter Sophia Diane, after my mother.  But the older she grows, the more I am thinking the “D” in Sophia D. Rapson stands for drama.  Because, now that we got the girl fully speech-therapized, drama is the language in which she speaks.

When we were having some downtime in our hotel during our President’s Day road trip, the kids were arguing over which movie to watch, so Bobby decided he would pick the movie for them.  His choice, Finding Nemo, caused Sophie to run from the room crying, and when Bobby went to try to talk to her about it, she responded with, “It’s RUINING MY LIFE!”

Poor girl.  Only five years old, and life’s already ruined.  By a movie that was made before she was born.  So, she really never had a chance.  C’est tragique, no?

Joshua and I were treated to another grand performance on Friday afternoon, when after I told Sophie that her turn playing Wii was over, she had a complete meltdown.  After she calmed down a bit, she still exiled herself to a corner where she spent ten minutes regaling us with a song that went something like this, “You can’t talk to me, because I’m sad. No one talk to me, because it’s not nice to talk to someone when they’re sad!  And it’s mean to make people feel sad!”

If she can just keep channeling that sadness, and take some voice lessons, girlfriend will be the next Adele in a few years.  I am confident the album Sophie: 9 will be a HUGE hit when she is in the third grade.

And when I watch her win her grammys for her follow-up albums over the years, on the tiny TV in my room at the freaking looney bin, I will be very, very proud.

 

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Articulation Station: Amazing app for speech therapy

A few months ago,  I began following Heidi Hanks’ blog, Mommy Speech Therapy.  Heidi is a Speech Language Pathologist and mom of four (including her own five-year-old Sophie! We have so much in common:) ).  Last year she started slowing down on blogging to start her own company, Little Bee Speech, and work on developing a speech therapy app for the iPad, Articulation Station.  I eagerly awaited the debut of this app because I knew it was going to be great.  I downloaded it right away, but since Sophie was only going to need to work on one or two sounds, I contacted Heidi about doing a review of the full version to share with you, so I could check out how all the sounds and blends worked within the app.

And. It is. AMAZING.  If your child has any articulation issues at all, you need to get this!!  The app is free to download, then you can purchase what sounds your child needs to work on, for $2.99-$5.99 depending on the sound.  And this month, until March 31st, all the sounds are 40% off!  SUCH A GREAT DEAL!  I cannot even tell you how worth every penny these sounds are.  Sophie and I have been working on the “L” and the “Th” sounds.  Because her delays were mostly language rather than speech (i.e. she was easy to understand, articulation was pretty good, but she had trouble conversing, and answering questions), articulation was the very last thing she worked on before getting discharged from speech.  We use Articulation Station at home because it is FUN and it’s keeping her polished, and helps her remember the good new speech habits she has formed.

Here’s what’s great about Articulation Station:

  • A fun variety of activities: beautiful picture flashcards, great matching game, fun sentences and stories
  • Very interactive- the child can operate the activities
  • SO many options – for each sound you can choose whether to work on the sounds at the beginning, end, or middle of the word
  • Easy to track and save results
  • The child can record and play back his or her voice to hear how they are pronouncing sounds
  • This app works in groups of up to six, so it’s awesome for use in schools

I feel like my description is not doing this app justice; it really could not be any more brilliant.  It’s BRILLIANT!  And fun, easy-to-use, and gets results.  Sophie and I love it.  With all the flashcards, matching games, sound options, and stories and sentences, there is always something new to play and learn every time we open the app. She will even open it up and play on her own.  It’s awesome!

Here’s a short video of Sophie demonstrating one of my favorite features of this app, the “rotating sentences” – with a touch of a button the child can change one of the key words in a sentence.  It’s such a fun feature!  Here, Sophie is working on the “th” sound in the middle of the keywords, i.e. “author”.  Enjoy!

Again, I HIGHLY recommend this app! Any of the sounds you buy will be worth every penny and then some!

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Little Bee Speech allowed me to try the full version of Articulation Station for free.  All opinions about the app are my own.  

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