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Star Wars in 3D gives everyone a chance to see it on the big screen
My seven-year-old can tell you whose lightsaber is purple (Mace Windu) and what sound a Droideka makes (em! em!), but he's never been able to sit in a movie theater and see one of his beloved Star Wars movies on the big screen. Until now.
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Web Coolness - Thanksgiving placecards, holiday inspiration and best books of 2011
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Cool Mom Picks + Lucky Magazine
We're so excited to be this week's guest bloggers at the Lucky Kids site this week. We've put together 5 picks for a handmade holiday, featuring 5 fabulous handmade items that we're crushing on hard.
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Being Elmo
I still remember the first time I saw Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo, on a TV show--and I couldn't believe my ears. When knew a big guy like Kevin was the voice of the lovable--and, yes, sometimes annoying--little red guy on Sesame Street.
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Yoga for Kids - more plausible than you might think
The thing about kids --and I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume it's not just my own who are like this-- is that they don't
always have the patience to hold yoga postures or meditate. But they
certainly like stories. And excitement. And good old-fashioned
silliness.
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Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: It's alive! Again!
Everyone loves the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog. But when that boy is Victor Frankenstein and the dog is a reanimated but still loyal (and cute!) corpse, you know Tim Burton is involved.
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Web Coolness - Photo ideas, iPhone add-ons, and Halloween treats
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Does your pre-schooler habla perro y gato?
Garfield and Odie, Ren and Stimpy, Sylvester and Hector--cartoon teams of cats and dogs have been used to teach kids a wide variety of lessons for decades. (Sometimes just how to beat each other up.)
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Web Coolness - Halloween treats, Four Seasons' getaway, and Dan Zanes' download
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Prima Princessa Presents Sleeping Beauty. Prepare for squeals.
Certainly the giggles and happy sounds coming from my 7 and 3 year old daughters as they watched the brand spankin' new Prima Princessa DVD would be enough to convince any mama how fabulous it is.
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Martha Speaks, and she says to adopt a shelter dog
On Saturday, our family will welcome a new addition. It's a girl, and she's black, furry and rescued from the streets of Indiana. So it seems entirely appropriate (if oddly coincidental) that one of our favorite PBS Kids' cartoons
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