After we received our shoes, Dimitri, 15 months, and I took them on the road for a test drive. We put them on bright and early for a big day including play group and lunch with friends. So right off the bat Dimitri dumped the entire Cat’s water dish on his shoes, amazingly the water did not hamper them much, they wiped right off, saving me much time in my morning. The moment I walked into the room at play group several mothers were exclaiming about the cuteness of his shoes. They are very brightly colored and Dimitri tends to think of them as toys rather than clothing. Everyone seemed impressed with how sturdy they were yet they are still flexible enough for a Toddler to feel the floor. It was agreed that the universal downfall is the fact they do not come in larger sizes. Dimitri is wearing the largest size, a five. Many mothers that I talked to wanted their children in flexible sole footwear through their fifth birthday. Overall I am pleased with the shoes, a good crossover between infant and big kid shoes.

Jessamy

We have too many things to tell you about and what if you want to order them off the internet before Christmas? Then we have to tell you a bit about them all at once right now! So here are a bunch of things you should know about. And order today!

Girl Mogul has a lot of cool stuff.

We tried out the Girl Power Self-Esteem Kit, which has Catherine Dee’s The Girls’ Guide to Life book in it. It is a super good book for making strong girls. The kit comes with a journal, pen, pencil, highlighter, and goal notebook. We love this kit! We also talked aboutGirl Mogul’s Conversations to Go conversation starter game in our review here.

Also, Girl Mogul sent Maddie an awesome shirt. It says “Future Leader of the Free World” on it. Maddie’s mom said it faded after one wash, but it’s still cute. They have lots of other cool shirts too.

Manifest Your Magnificence is a bunch of cards that say affirmations like, “I am proud” on them and then you think of something that you’re proud about. It’s really cool. The pictures on the cards are awesome and it comes with a cd of somebody reading the affirmations, too.

Wett-Giggles soap would be a really cute stocking stuffer. They smell good and they have little animals that are really scrub brushes once the soap goes away. The soap is handmade with glycerin, shea butter, and essential oils. Fun!

The Dot Girl’s First Period Kit might be good if you have a girl who is just about to go through puberty.

They’re cute kits with lots of helpful information and products to help with a girl’s first period. And one dollar from every kit you buy goes to The Central Asia Institute, which helps provide schools for girls in remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If you know someone who appreciates treats, but wants to be healthy, you should get Crispy Cat organic candy bars (mint coconut is my mom’s favorite) and La Vita All Natural Cruncy Cookies for their stocking!

Also, it might be fun to order some very cute and tasty Tennessee T-Cakes and have them sent to somebody special.

Oh, I almost forgot. You have to have band-aids, right? Kids like having cool band-aids, right? You could put Sticker Sisters’ Brave Girl-Aids in your child’s stocking along with some of Sticker Sisters’ other cool things.

There. Lots of ideas for last-minute internet shopping.

Liberty

Babies don’t need Christmas toys; they need an awesome chair that will grow with them well into childhood. Tweenhood, even! And we moms need a chair so cool that we want to decorate our entire house around it. The Mutsy Easygrow chair is cool and functional!

It’s a great first chair for babies, with a 5-point harness and a removeable seat reducer (you can see the reducer at the end of the video; it looks a lot like a Bumbo baby seat), so even a baby who is sitting up but not quite ready for solids can sit at the table with the rest of the family. The seat and footrest adjust easily to fit a child all the way up to 12 years old.

We had no idea what Maya was missing by not having a seat that fit her well. She is thrilled that she now sits at just the right height at the table. No more sitting on her knees and feeling fidgety. The Easygrow is great for reducing meal-time restlessness, but the best part is her new-found comfort when she’s doing arts and crafts or school work at the table. And I seriously want to redecorate my entire house with this slick seat in mind.

Now for the fun part: You can get 10% off any Mutsy order if you shop at goores.com using the coupon code kksmu. Tell your mother-in-law!

Goore’s is also offering a 10% discount on Picci’s Natura line of organic bedding. Use discount code kkst and get some beautiful, organic bedding for your beautiful, organic baby.

Abby

PS Guitar giveaway!

You’re probably going to get some electronics for presents, right? Then you might need cool headphones and cool flash drives to go with them.

First, the people at Ultimate Ears gave us some Loud Enough head phones to try. They drown out all the sound you hear besides the music. Cuz if you are listening to your music and the dryer is drying your clothes it will make a lot of noise, so the headphones drown out all that noise enough! They’re specially designed for children to keep our ears safe, and you can adjust the size.

Also, iFrogz sent us 2 kinds of earphones to try: the Earpollution Plugz head phones and the over-the-ear Earpollution Toxix. They drown out all the sounds too only the Plugz don’t fit me and Liberty as well as the Loud Enough ones. I like the over-the-ear kind, though, and my mom and dad like the Plugz. Both the iFrogz and Loud Enough ones are pretty and both of them are adjustable.

And don’t you have pictures and videos that you don’t want to store on your computer cuz they take up too much space or you want to make sure they’re saved if your computer crashes? Don’t use a regular flash drive. You should get a cute one from Mimobot. They have tons of different designs. This is just a small sample:

-Lena

We thought Kyra’s jewelry was so neat! She makes it herself and she’s around our age. And all of the money you pay for Kyra’s Collection jewelry goes to charity, so it’s a great gift for the holidays because it’s pretty and the money you pay will help people! We asked Kyra some questions and she answered them! Here they are:

Liberty: What do you like to do for fun besides making jewelry?

Kyra: I like to run, play soccer, all kinds of art and playing with my pets.
I have a frog, a gecko and a cat.

Liberty: Is it fun making jewelry?

Kyra: yes! It is awesome!

Liberty: What is the hardest thing about making jewelry?

Kyra: Sawing the metal, like I did in the heart design.

Lena: It’s really cool that the money from your jewelry goes to charity (children’s charities, hunger relief, animal charities, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, or Aeromedicos). How
did you choose the charities?

Kyra: My grandmother had ovarian cancer, I love animals, my grandpa flies
with Aeromedicos to mexico, my school used to donate to heifer
organization for hunger and famine, and a friend of mine went to one
of the hole in the wall camps.

Lena: Why did you want to make necklaces and how did you come up with the
designs?

Kyra: I love wearing necklaces, so they are my favorite. I drew the designs
first, then I made them with precious metal clay.

Lena: Did you ever mess up?

Kyra: YES…luckily PMC (precious metal clay) can be used over and over
again, until you fire it. So I go to work on them until they were
just right. The bird was the hardest! My mom soldered on it’s nose.
The plane was tough too!

My school is working on a token collection right now, and we will be
selling the pewter tokens to make money for our school!!!! It’s
pretty cool that my mom makes jewelry for her job…I get to do cool
jewelry a lot. My friends love coming for art days in her studio!

Liberty

P.S. Are you looking for this week’s giveaway? It’s kind of a big one and we’re out of town right now for a funeral (sad), so we’ll get the giveaway posted when we get back in a couple of days.