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Five Halloween Games and eBooks for Kids in the Android Market

October 31, 2011 by 25 Comments

*EDITED TO ADD* Spookley the Square Pumpkin is the Amazon.com AppStore FREE App of the Day! Grab it here – http://amzn.to/v831X2

I searched the Amazon.com Appstore for Android to find kid-friendly Halloween apps for kids, and found these five picks. If it’s your first time downloading an Amazon App, you’ll need to install Amazon Mobile first, then follow the instructions you should get in an email to enable the app. I’ve got it running on both my Xoom Tablet and on my Droid Bionic.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Memory Game $.99 Fun4Kids

Spookley the Square Pumpkin $.99 Oceanhouse Media

Kids Halloween Games $.99 Kymah LLC

Halloween Mice! – $4.58

Josh’s Halloween Pumpkin $9.99

 

If you’ve found other kid-friendly Android Apps, feel free to share them in a comment!

disclosure: I’m part of of the Midwest Moms group from Verizon Wireless. They have provided me with a Motorola Xoom Tablet and a Droid Bionic Smartphone, and a Verizon data plan, for six months and all they ask in return is that I share my experiences. All opinions are my own.

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Friendly Friday Linky 10-28-11

October 28, 2011 by 11 Comments

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! NOTE: My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Happy Friday everybody! Remember to look on the sidebar for my Google Friend Connect widget, and either click Join This Site if you haven’t already, or click Sign In if you’ve already joined. If you have the Google Friend Connect widget on your blog, let me know in a comment so I can stop by and follow you back!

Approved commenters will see up to ten recent posts to choose from when leaving their comment, please choose your Friendly Friday post if you did one. If not, choose a post you’d like me to read and comment on! Remember, your comments here are DoFollow, which means Google sees your link and follows it over to your site, giving you a tiny boost in your site’s page rank. It’s just my way of letting you know I appreciate you as a reader!

Thanks again for stopping by Table for Five today, hope you all have a great weekend!

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Wordless Wednesday 10-26-11: It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

October 26, 2011 by 13 Comments
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! on DVD

 

Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Trick or Treating

Linus: "Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?"

 

Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown I Got A Rock

Charlie Brown: "I Got A Rock."

 

Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Party

Awesome Halloween Decorations

 

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Friendly Friday 10-21-11

October 21, 2011 by 9 Comments

Thanks Mail Carrier Friendly Friday badge

Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! NOTE: My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. If you’d like to post our Friendly Friday button on your blog or in a post, grab the link code at Thanks, Mail Carrier – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog, too! Just get the InLinkz code from the link on any of the hostess blogs each Friday and copy it directly into your post. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way to get even more traffic to your blog and make Friendly Friday more beneficial for everyone!

Happy Friday, everybody! Can you believe how fast this week went by? Last week’s refreshingly cool weather gave way to downright chilly, we’ve had the heat on at night all week. I wish it would stop raining so we could rake the leaves up and get the lawn mowed!

If you are following me on Google Friend Connect for the first time, and you have the Google Friend Connect widget on your blog, please mention that in your comment so I can visit you back and follow you, too!

Approved commenters will see up to ten recent posts to choose from when leaving their comment, please choose your Friendly Friday post if you did one. If not, choose a post you’d like me to read and comment on! Remember, your comments here are DoFollow, which means Google sees your link and follows it over to your site, giving you a tiny boost in your site’s page rank. It’s just my way of letting you know I appreciate you as a reader!

Thanks again for stopping by Table for Five today, hope you all have a great weekend!



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This is why I should clean the house more…

October 20, 2011 by 11 Comments

Not us, but very similar!

A post from my friend Deb at Mom Of 3 Girls titled This is why we don’t watch tv in the mornings… prompted me to write this post, because our stories are so hilariously similar! Thanks for the post idea, Deb!

Kaitlyn’s bus is technically supposed to come at 7:44 a.m.  But, depending on traffic and weather and whether or not the kids who get picked up before Kaitlyn are actually there or not, the bus can come as early as 7:40.

We are supposed to stand at the end of the driveway where the driver can see us so she knows to stop. Which means walking out to the driveway at 7:39 and then…waiting. Five minutes is a long time when you are just standing there with a wiggly five year old!

I think it was the third day of school when the driver figured out that if she doesn’t see us in the driveway, she should stop the bus in front of the house and wait. Because there are some mornings when I think Kaitlyn is all ready to go, but then something goes wrong.

Recent examples include not being able to find her fleece hoodie anywhere (it was later found in her room), a last-minute request for a cup of milk (she doesn’t eat breakfast at home unless she’s really hungry, the school serves free breakfast), and of course, the missing shoes.

Kaitlyn has two pairs of shoes. Yes, I realize that’s not very many, but we are on a tight, tight, tight budget, so it’s necessity around here, not vanity. One pair of black mary janes and one pair of tennis shoes is what she has. Most days she wears the tennis shoes.

Last week, it was 7:38, and I could not find EITHER pair of shoes anywhere. I was looking in every room of the house, Kaitlyn was looking in her room, and then I heard a horn honking. That’s right, the bus driver was parked in front of the house, honking the bus horn. At 7:40 in the morning. I’m sure my neighbors were thrilled.

After the second horn honk (sorry, neighbors!), I suddenly spotted a bit of tennis shoe poking out from under the couch. I reached down, pulled out both shoes, shoved them in Kaitlyn’s hands, ran with her to the front door, and sent her out to the bus, across the front lawn, in her socks-covered feet with her tennis shoes in her hands.

If bus drivers get together for coffee after they drop all the kids off, I guarantee you I was a topic of conversation. I am going to need to give that bus driver a REALLY good Christmas present for all the trouble she goes through to get my kid to school every day!

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