If your kids like Play-doh like mine do, the Play-Doh Spaghetti Factory will be a huge hit in your house too! Your kids can easily make noodles, linguine, spaghetti, and ravioli with this pasta maker.  With the 25 half molds, you can easily add shrimp, vegetables, and even meatballs to your pasta meal.   This is easily enough for my 2 year old to do!  You add play-doh to the pasta maker, attach the top, press the handles down, and you have noodles!  You can easily add your toppings now!  It even comes with a playmat and a spoon and fork (which you can also use to make more noodles!).

I love that Play-doh gives my kids the tools to use their imagination and leave it up to them on what they create.  This is great for pretend play for both my 2 year old and my 5 year old.  I highly recommend it!

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Have you guys heard of this Alice before? If not, keep reading, because Alice.com will change the way your shop. Seriously.

At Alice.com, you can order your groceries online, and they ship them to your door.  Now, they don’t carry fresh items (like fruit or vegetables), but they have pretty much everything else you need for your house like Jet Dry, Magic Eraser, and diapers (that’s actually what I ordered on my last order).  They have a great deals section you need to make sure you check out.  I saved $5 on my first order, and I only ordered 5 things!  My favorite part though? You can set up alerts (which you choose) that will remind you to order more things like toilet paper, diapers, etc before you run out.  As a forgetful mom, I love that.  Nothing is worse than running out of detergent or diapers (and we’ve all been there!).  Your items ship right to your front door too!  You can see from the picture they come in a cute box that you definitely won’t miss.  There is no delivery charge either!  I live in the Chicago area, and the prices for me are pretty comparable to my local grocery stores.

On your first Alice order, you get $10 off too if you go there from my link either in this post or from the ad in my sidebar to the right.  How great is that?  You get to try Alice and save some money in the process!  Let me know what you think after you’ve tried it, but I know I’ll be having lots of my groceries delivered right to my door from now on!

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Tim and Sallys Vegetable Garden is another great children’s book.  This book is about two siblings learning how to plant their garden.  We learn about how and when to plant different seeds, what tools are needed, and how to tend to the garden as the vegetables grow.  The book is written in verse, so the lines rhyme which is a skill we are currenlty working on with Madison.  She noticed the the lines rhymed right away, and we are glad to reinforce something we have been working on.  The illustrations in Tim and Sallys Vegetable Garden definitely compliment the story too.  There is also a word list at the end of the book that we also have been working on with Madison.  There is a picture of each item that was in the garden and then what it is is listed underneath.  Lastly, at the very end of the book, there is a Garden Journal, where your little ones can put down their own thoughts about their garden.

Right now is not gardening season here.  However, I have a feeling we will be reading this book a lot more come spring!  Every time we read this now, Madison wants to know when we are planting our garden!