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My, uh, I mean my kids’ fave new toy (giveaway!)

Awhile back I became a wee bit obsessed with Learning Resources Pretend & Play line of toys.  I got their Pretend & Play School set for my mom to give Sophie for Christmas because I know she will L-O-V-E it.  I just love all these realistic toys that let kids act-out some fun scenarios.  So, after talking Learning Resources’ website and Facebook page for awhile, I contacted them to ask if I could review and give away a toy from their Pretend & Play line.  They agreed, and I chose the Pretend & Play Supermarket Checkout set.

We received the set just as Joshua was having his first of many sick days from the stomach flu.  It was so nice to have a new toy to keep the kids busy when the kids were stuck in the house.  They had SO much fun with it!  Here’s a cute little short video of them playing together.

Here’s what I love about the Supermarket Checkout:

  • The moving conveyor belt. Just one of the many realistic features of this set! The “cashier” can press a button and move their customers food on down the belt.
  • The scanner that beeps, just like in a real life, when you pass the items over it.
  • Pretend scale so you can weigh produce
  • Cash register drawer that opens and closes
  • Credit card that beeps and says “paid” when you pass it through the scanner

Joshua and Sophie are seriously having such a great time pretending with this set and making up different shopping scenarios.  I know your kiddos will love this, set too!  Here’s how you can win one for them!  You can enter three different ways:

1) Leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite pretend toy was when you were a child

2) “Like” Learning Resources on Facebook and then come back here and leave a comment letting me know you did so

3) “Like” Mommin’ It Up on Facebook and come back here and leave a comment letting me know you did or already do.

This contest will be open until Tuesday, December 20th at 6 pm EST.  One winner will be chosen at random.  U.S Residents only, please. Good luck!  For more information on Learning Resources, check out their You Tube videos or follow them on Twitter.

I’ve linked this up to Things I love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries.  Head on over to check out what others love, too!

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Learning Resources provided me with the Pretend & Play Supermarket Checkout to review. All opinions about this product are my own.

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Tragedy (of sorts)

Want to hear something sad?

I had been in Chicago for a few days, and upon my return home tonight (last night by the time you read this!), I realized that I left my favoritest boots in the whole wide world in my hotel room.

La Canadienne Kara boots. Aren’t they lovely?

And now they are gone. My heart is broken.

Is that sad or WHAT?

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Apukealypse Now

Remember the other day when I wrote about trying to keep the fam healthy for the holidays? Yeah, well. For some reason I was thinking coughs, colds, strep throat, oh my! I was not thinking about vomit.  It hadn’t occurred to me that we might be swimming in it sometime during this cold & flu/holiday season.

So of course that’s what came to visit us, because I was not expecting it at all.  It started last Tuesday night when Joshua was complaining of a headache. I took his temperature and lo and behold, it was 101.4!  So I declared that he was not going to school the next day and put him to bed.  When he woke up still feverish the next morning and puked a couple times, I was pretty nervous.  But throughout the day, he actually improved.  His fever responded to ibuprofen, and he didn’t vomit anymore.  He was still peaked, but he ate a couple popsicles.  When Sophie got home from school, they played really nicely together.  She was rather happy to have her big brother home.  Then he started feeling bad again, as it got later, and I wasn’t sure whether he’d be well enough to go to school Thursday or not.  We put both big kids to bed in the hopes that he would wake up all better.

And THEN Sophie woke up and vomited alllll over her bedroom at about 11:15.  I got her undressed and threw her in the bathtub while Bobby went to work on her bedroom. Let me tell you that one of the pleasures of having a daughter with long, glorious hair is scrubbing puke out of it in the middle of the night. Oh, did I say pleasures? Because I meant HORRORS!!  Ick. Poor Soph had a rough night and also a rough early morning.  She was quite a bit sicker than Joshua had been.  He still had a fever in the morning, though, so I kept them both home.  At about 3:30 in the afternoon, an exhausted and sick Sophie girl fell asleep on the couch.  She slept for almost three hours!

Pathetic!

Joshua was doing ok, but he started feeling bad again as night fell and his fever went back up to 101.4.  So, I kept him home Friday too.  Friday – day 3 with two sick big kids!  But Friday wasn’t too bad – they were definitely recovering.  Less TV and more playing, and they both ate peanut butter toast instead of just popsicles.  By Saturday morning, they were both back to normal.  Joshua’s energy was through the ROOF! You could tell he hadn’t been out in a few days.

So, Saturday was good. Saturday we were all gloriously healthy.  All seemed right again.

Until I woke up at 3:30 Sunday morning to feed the baby, and had to throw, I mean, quickly place him back in his crib to avoid throwing up all over him.

Oh, I was sick. SO, SO sick.  I can’t remember the last time I was that sick!  I threw up a million more times that the kids did combined.  All day Sunday, I laid in bed because I couldn’t sit up with having to throw up. It. Was. Baaaad.  Bobby took care of the kids, took them to a birthday party, brought me whatever I needed – he was great.  I couldn’t even sit up to nurse Jonah, I had to nurse him lying down. I don’t know what I would have done had this occurred on a week day!

So – we’ve had our holiday sickness!  Please germs and cooties, stay away from us at least until after Christmas, we’ve paid our dues and sacrificed to the porcelain god.

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P.S. I totally stole the term “Apukealypse” from my pal Dawn.

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