If you have kids of various ages, it’s hard to find presents for both of them that are along the same lines as one another.  K’nex has solved that problem for us parents.  They offer product lines for the younger kids and the older ones too (including parents!)

For Will, we have the Sesame Street Neighborhood Collection Building Sets. These are for kids 2-5, and it is perfect for the younger set.  With these sets, you can easily play with your favorite Sesame Street characters be it Elmo, Cookie Monster, and/or Ernie.  Each neighborhood words together too, so you can have a single set or an entire city.  There is the 123 Brownstone Building Set, the police car building set, the ice cream truck building set, and the police station building set.  We tried out the police car building set and Will loved it.  The wheels on the vehicle actually move, so he was able to push this around our living room.  The parts are also very big, so I didn’t have to worry about him putting them in his mouth.  They also made it very easy for him to work with them because of their larger size.  In the set, they also have additional ideas for you to build.  These sets help with hand eye coordination, encourage imaginative play, thinking and problem solving.

For the older kids, there is the 400 piece tub.  This is literally hours and hours of fun.  There are building ideas for 20 different things in here plus whatever your kids can come up with on their own!  The models you can build have a lot of movement that you can do.  The wheels on the car we made worked.  I love that K’nex works with the other brands out there like Lego.  You can take the Legos you may already have and easily incorporate them into this set.  I love toys that are self contained.  I love that the storage tub is small enough to easy fit under your kids bed and small enough to easily be taken on trips.  With a price tag of $20.99, this is a must have for the kid who has everything.

With both of our K’nex items, we are very happy.  My kids have had countless hours of fun, and I can only highly recommend them.

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This giveaway is now over. The winners are JDaniel4smom and tina reynolds! Congrats!

I have to tell you all about a great site that I am apart of.  Haven’t heard of Moms Like Me?  It’s only the hippest place for moms to go.  No, seriously, it is.  Any question you could ever have are answered here.  Want to know about events in your area?  Check Moms Like Me out.  Want to set up play dates with other moms in your area?  Check Moms Like Me out.  Want to just talk about celebrity gossip or the new dancers on Dancing With The Stars?  Well, you get it.  There are tons of groups and tons of women just waiting to talk with you.  Don’t see a group that you are interested in?  Definitely create your own group on Moms Like Me!  That’s the beauty of the site — it’s for moms.  If you are interested in it, someone else is too!  They have great contests going on (I’ve won Sesame Street Live tickets, and I recently won a book signed by the author!)  Best of all, this site is free!

Sign up is easy — you don’t have to give your life history.  You pick your username, password, email address, and a few other things and that’s it.  You’ll be signed up in less than a minute!  So what are you waiting for?  Oh wait, you don’t live near Chicago?  No problem!  There are a ton of local groups all over the nation for you to join!

Now, we want to give back to the moms who check out and join the site, so I have arranged for prizes for 2 lucky winners.  The first prize is a Friends & Family CPR Anyone Program ($34.95).  The other prize you could win is the “Mama Says No More Frozen Pizza” cookbook  ($18.99).  These are two products any mom could use!  Here’s what you need to do:

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The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland is one of cutest kids movies I have seen a while. Elmo won’t share his blanket with Zoe (his friend) and ends up losing it in Oscar’s can. He journeys to Grouchland to get back his blanket and along the way he learns a lot about taking others feelings into consideration. Huxley (the villain) has his blanket, along with a lot of other things that don’t belong to him and Elmo tries to get his blanket back. It definitely teaches the kids about sharing without them even realizing it. It is a little over an hour, so it perfect for little ones attention spans. There are even a few jokes thrown in there for the adults! However, this is truly a kids movie.  It is a Sesame Street classic with all the gang.