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  1. Halloween!

    Published 09 Oct 08 to 14:28 | by Elisia Bargelletti | no comment

    It’s only October 9th, yet the stores are already pushing Christmas on us. Halloween is still three weeks away, yet Christmas decorations are already on store shelves. What’s my point? Well, it annoys me.

    Personally, I don’t like dressing up for Halloween. Party invitations that read “Costume obligatory” usually get thrown in the trash. It was fun when I was a kid, and I like watching my nieces dress up in their costumes, but I’m not one of those grown ups who goes all out and gets a super cool costume.

    I found a site that I really like, that makes personalized shirts and you can choose one of their fun Halloween images to put on your shirt with your choice of text. The one I made up had a funny pumpkin. (I didn’t buy it because I kind of already have a Halloween-y shirt from Sick On Sin and you don’t need too many Halloween shirts.)

    It’s not very expensive either: 25$ plus 6$ for shipping to Canada. I would definitely get this shirt and wear it to my Halloween party this year.

    Halloween is on a Friday this year, what are you doing?

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  2. Books about ABCs and 123s

    Published 02 Oct 08 to 14:50 | by Elisia Bargelletti | no comment

    A couple of Christmas I wanted to get my three-year-old niece some books that would help her learn her numbers and letters. She was already learning this stuff at her daycare, but I noticed that, although she knew how to count from 1-10 and could sing the ABCs, she couldn’t identify numbers or letters. This is where the books would help. However, my niece is at the age where she likes to scribble on any type of paper, so books with paper pages were out of the question.

    Anyhow I finally found what I was looking for at Renaud Bray. It’s a box set of three books with hard cover, board pages. It’s called “My First Learning Library” published by Dorling Kindersley and the three books are “My First ABC Board Book”, “My First Number Board Book” and “My First Word Board Book”. The company also publishes a number of different books in the same format, for example, instead of ABCs you can get a book about dinosaurs, trucks, Hanukkah, etc.

    The pages are very colourful and the numbers, letters and illustrations are big enough. These books helped my niece a lot. She now knows what numbers 1-10 look like and she can identify most of the alphabet. She’s such a smarty pants. I guess it’s in the genes!

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