Fidgitz twists and turns in a unique fluid motion that will mesmerize players for hours on end. Your goal is to twist and manipulate the puzzle until one side is all blue and the other side is all white. It’s a challenging brainteaser and a fidget toy all in one! Recently featured on the TODAY show! Backseat entertainment to keep kids from whining ‘Are we there yet?’ http://thinkfun.co/2uM2gyY
Where to Purchase: Available nationwide at Toys R Us, Amazon and neighborhood toy stores.
Play and neigh the days away; A classic playroom companion straight from the rodeo. Hop on the back of a soft and squishy horse and hang on! Hear the clip clop of your horse’s hooves as you go. Yee haw! Natural hardwood handles and rockers give your horse a classic feel. Perfect for any toddler’s nursery or playroom.
Where to Purchase: Target and www.Target.com
A beautiful show from outer space, ready to take you to an imaginary place! Load one of the 2 reels to discover the cute planets in our solar system or to discover happy visitors from another galaxy. Ergonomic handle with handy compartment to store the reels. Can also be used as a flashlight.
Where to Purchase: Target
Flip & rearrange all 9 Color Cubes on the 3 x 3 tray until each color appears once in every row and column. It will take more than a couple flips of a cube to master this brilliant Sudoku puzzle. Once you’ve conquered the traditional Sudoku pattern, give your brain a real workout with our fun Bonus Challenges! Color Cube Sudoku is a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner.
Available nationwide at Barnes & Noble, Toys R Us, Amazon and neighborhood toy stores.
Prepared for a programming space mission? In this 40-challenge game two Rovers have been sent to explore Mars. The trouble is, the Rovers are programmed to travel on color and most of the pathways were left colorless in a dust storm. You’ll need to call on critical thinking skills to correctly color the pathways so the Rovers stay on course. Challenges introduce “decision points,” “loops,” and “increment instructions” as you progress–all advanced computational skills that are delicately embedded into a fun play experience and will have you thinking like a programmer.
Where to Purchase: Available exclusively at Target stores nationwide.
2017/18 model
Recommended by Orthopedic Doctors
Soft, flexible 3 layer sole
Real woolen lining all inside
Safe, soft, leather upper
Velcro closures for easy and safe fastening
The upper side of the booties is natural, soft but resistant, made of high-quality nappa leather. Because of the excellent breathing character of the leather, the child´s feet do not sweat into the booties.
The sole has three layers: Between the non-slip suede soles and the inner leather lining, a layer of 3mm elastic foam provides insulation and reduces the pressure on the joints, while running on hard ground.
The booties are easy to get on, by using the flexible ankle band, which stays fixed. We supplied the toe of the booties, providing enough space for the free movement of toes, and helping a free feet development.
The Liliputi® Soft Soled Booties are not suitable for activities such as crawling, hiking, playing soccer or when using a tricycle. They are ideal for babywearing, and are especially recommended during the cruising phase when learning to walk and also later as a perfect alternate of being barefoot.
A significant part of the experts nowadays, suggest that the child be barefoot as much as possible, as this ensures the cartilage and muscles of the baby´s feet to develop properly.
However is not always possible to be barefoot!
The Liliputi booties are soft-soled, as if the child is barefoot, still protecting him from mechanical damage, and also from the unpleasantness of cold (or hot) surfaces.
In the Liliputi soft-soled leather booties, children learn to walk so that :
Every little part of the sole is activated in the process of walking, which strengthens the foot muscles, thus preventing the most common orthopedic foot problems, like flat feet
They feel the uneven ground with their sole, which greatly contributes to the development of their balance and coordination.
The foot reflex zones are stimulated during walking, which has a positive impact on the entire body.
Lots of feedback we receive from parents, sharing information about how much more confident and stable is the walk of their children in soft-soled shoes, compared to their peers, or experiencing in other types of shoes. Many of them praised the ”easy to give” – character of our shoes, and also the fact that their kids don´t want to get them off.
Perhaps the greatest certainty for us, however, is not only the deed, that children do not want to take their shoes off, but – as dozens of reports show – they carry them to their parents, communicating without words, that they would like to get their Liliputi shoes on …
Where to Purchase: https://www.liliputibabycarriers.com/soft-leather-baby-boots
An Extraordinary Journey Through Our Wild World
Author Chris Fitch
Atlas of Untamed Places is an intrepid journey through nature’s most unusual, wild, feral, and extraordinary places. Readers will discover everything from ancient, protected zones, to the inhabitable and unimaginable. Incredible photography presents new wildernesses being carved out by rivers and quakes, as well as and man-made wilds like Chernobyl which, after being barren for years, has developed into a growing natural habitat, free from human intervention.
Where to Purchase: available at bookstores and online.
4 in 1 Coat
You can wear it without a baby or with the babywearing insert for front and back carry or even during pregnancy thanks to the included pregnancy insert. It is comfortable, stylish and durable. Its sleek design is sporty and elegant at the same time, therefore the coat it´s ideal for all occasions. Its vibrant colors lighten up the darkest winter. The Liliputi Mama Coat matches all the style lines of the Liliputi carriers and bags collections, but it doesn´t really matter which carrier you pick, it is bound to work.
Why SoftShell?
SoftShell is a special fabric, primarily used for professional outdoor equipment. The unique characteristics of the fabric facilitate that, which involve its resistance to water, along with breathability (permeability) as well as its particularly efficient windproof character that keeps its wearer warm. Its further specialties include flexibility which provides easy movement when it is worn. These features of SoftShell guarantee that Liliputi Baby Carrying Coats offer the ideal solution for those mommies who would like to carry their babies comfortably also during winter. We would absolutely never recommend to climb a snowy mountain while babywearing, but if you have to…for who knows what reason, you will be glad that you have this coat.
Focusing on carrying
Liliputi Mama Coats involve numerous solutions that support carrying. Thanks to the zippers applied under the armpits, the coat can be easily taken on and off, even with your little baby on your back, ready to go. The bottom of the coat, supplied with an elastic cord, can be adjusted to the required width to keep always the tiny legs of your baby warm too. As a part of the coat, the baby insert offers solutions for both front and back carry, it can be easily fastened through the zipper as well as fitted perfectly with the help of two buttoned rubber and one built in string. Two pockets with thermo lining warm the hands in order to bolster the mommies’ extra comfort.
Besides, it is pretty as well!
We have incorporated all our knowledge and creativity to lend rich functionality along with special and unique appearance to our coat. Talented Hungarian designers also contributed in the construction.
What about the quality?
We know that the Liliputi® Babywearing & Mama Coat is not cheap… The reason for that is the highest quality materials we applied without compromise. Through its production too, the highest quality standards prevail. These coats do not originate from Far Eastern mass production, but from our own Hungarian manufacture, so that we can personally check every item directly and separately. If you are looking for the best relation quality/price in a mama coat, you´ve found it.
Three-times Award-Winner
The Liliputi® Mama Coat has already won three awards! In 2015 was chosen as winner of Green Scene and Family Choice Awards, in 2016 it was evaluated with golden medal on Mom’s Choice Awards. Hip-Hip-Hurray! We are soooooo proud! 🙂
Where to Purchase: https://www.liliputibabycarriers.com/
Fun neoprene drink koozies fits baby bottles, sippy cups, water bottles and drink cans. Insulates and protects glass bottles. Creative designs feature ears and wings for little ones to grasp.
Where to Purchase: Kidkusion.com – buybuybaby.com – walmart.com – amazon.com
It’s that time of year again. The holidays are quickly approaching and for those who celebrate Christmas, the month of December is filled with anticipation, fun, excitement, and energy as preparations for the holiday near.
Disney has three fun Advent Calendars this year to get everyone in the spirit of fun and celebrations. Every day in December a new item is revealed in the calendars as the countdown to December 25 gets closer and closer.
The Disney Animators’ Collection Advent Calendar (lists for $34.95) is filled with all the whimsy and fun of the Animators’ Collection of dolls and plush. For fans of this collection, the Advent Calendar will bring more cherished items. The collection is focused on the Disney characters as children, and the Advent Calendar contains miniature representations of the characters from Pocahontas, Tinker Bell and Peter Pan, Belle, and Ariel.
The box is designed with the same care as the boxes for the Animator dolls. Open it to see 24 little doors, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas. Opening each door reveals a white plastic bag. The bags contain the little keepsakes. Spoiler alert – door #1 contains a tiny Pocahontas and door #2 contains a tiny Tick Tock. There are scenery made out of card stock so the little characters can be placed to create a setting for them. 
The Animators’ Advent Calendar is for ages 3+ due to the small size of the keepsakes.
There are two other Disney Advent Calendars ($99.95) this year. For collectors of the Tsum Tsums, there is a fun Tsum Tsum Plush Advent Calendar, with 25 (this one goes to Christmas) micro Tsum Tsum plush: Mickey on sled, Minnie skiing, Goofy in snowball, Thumper as snowman, Bambi as reindeer, Tigger with candy cane, Dumbo in snowball fight, Miss Bunny as present, and more.
For Star Wars/LEGO there is a new LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar ($46.95) with 24 individual tiny Lego keepsake items from the Star Wars films.
This is the time to buy/order your Disney Advent Calendar from your local Disney Store of the Shop Disney website.
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