What are your New Years plans for the night? We’re super busy over here getting ready for Big T’s friends to come over and compete in our Top Chef Dinner Challenge. I wasn’t sure how much time I’d have to prepare, so I scheduled this post of….

This Little Blog’s Top Ten Posts of The Year

These were the posts with the highest hits in 2011 (in order of clicks). I think it’s interesting to see what everyone wanted to read about, I hope you do too! Onto number one…..

1. Michelle’s Proposal ~ Add one sweet lady+an adorable guy and a pinch of Disney Magic and you get a blog post that’s definitely worth sharing.
2. Disney Fairytale Pirate Wedding ~ Oh man, this wedding was awesome.
3. It’s So Strange ~ Little T is still stumbling around Stumbler in his monster costume.
4. Harry Potter Was Awesome, Until Someone Blew Chunks in my Hair: *Argh* I will always remember the last Harry Potter film as the one where I got thrown up on. 
5. I Came Out of that Bounce House a New Woman: One of my most embarrassing moments of the year, captured on camera.
6. Dear Hair: For some reason, everyone was really curious about my hair. Teehee. 
7. When I Started Counting My Blessings, My Whole Life Turned Around: What can I say? My friends take good photos.
8. Sometimes Happy Things Come from Sad Things: Losing our kitty Daphne was one of the saddest things that happened this year, but there was a happy ending for Boots and her baby.
9. For Always? I think this way about Little T every day. My sweet baby boy.
10. A Snowball in the Face is Surely the Beginning to a Lasting Friendship: Maybe the snow made this a popular post? I’m not sure, but that was definitely a great day. One of those days you’ll always remember. 🙂

Here’s to more memories and blog posts in 2012! I hope you all have a great night. I’ll see you next year! (hardy har har)

~Momma J

And my favorite Christmas song:

I hope you all have a great day!

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THIS SCOOTER WAS NEVER DELIVERED. IF YOU ARE CONTACTED BY THIS COMPANY DO NOT DO A GIVEAWAY. 

*edit for the winner of our flicker scooter* GypsyNicole (#34) is our winner from a random number generator! In her comment, she wrote: “Thank you for the giveaway opportunity and happy holidays!”

People, you have a chance to win a free a scooter!

The Flicker Scooter will be available through select Toys R Us and all Sports Chalet’s this fall with a suggested retail price of 99.99, but why pay for a scooter when you have a chance to win it here (including the shipping) for free!?

Click the photo on the right for a link to their website.

Scooter Details:

• High quality ABS deck
• Hand brake for quick and easy stopping
• Entirely new ride and experience
• Lightweight design for enhanced speed
• Fun carving and drifting ride
• Folding arm for easy travel & storage

To Win: 

• Leave a comment on this post.
• Like my facebook page for an extra entry, then leave another comment saying you liked my page.

Contest winner will be chosen through a random number generator and announced on a new post on December 23rd. 

The winner will be contacted through e-mail and asked to provide an address so Flicker can ship you the scooter.

Good luck, everyone!

~by Little T

1. Baby Rattle Toy

We’ve had this IPhone App for Little T since he was 3 months old, and it’s still a favorite. When you shake your phone it rattles. When you touch the screen an animal appears. When you touch the star it plays music and changes colors. Even the clumsiest of baby fingers can get this app working.

2. Talking Lila the Fairy

I don’t know what it is about this fairy, but she is magical enough to stop crying toddlers in their tracks and put them in some sort of fairy trance. Once we had to listen to her singing in the car for an entire hour because it was the only thing that would calm Little T.

3. Peekaboo Barn

This app is a fun one. The barn shakes and makes animal noises, and when you tap the barn it reveals what animal is inside.

4. Count the Animals

This is a beautiful app with fun music. At first, Little T was content watching us click on the animals. Now he’s figured out how to do it on his own. It costs more than most apps, but you can see why once you get a glimpse of the images.

5. The Nutcracker Musical Storybook

This is Little T’s favorite app at the moment. Stunning images, lovely music, a classic story, what more can you ask for in an app? He watches it over, and over, and over, and over….well you get the idea.

6. PhoneforKids

This app is free. It also has everything you need to let your toddler feel like he’s really playing with your iphone. They can text with this app, use a calculator, make phone calls, and lots more. Did I mention it’s free?

7. Baby Einstein

This app gets a lot of bad reviews because you have to purchase 15 minute baby einstein videos for .99 cents each. I have to tell you though, those 99 cents have saved us big time during doctor visits, long car rides, and many other times where Little T needed to sit and wait for longer than a little baby can handle. We also took pictures of our family members and use them in the “make your own flashcards” section. This is included in the original app price, and Little T loves to go through and look at pictures of family members.

8. Laugh and Learn Count the Animals

Another free app with cute animals that make animal noises and sing songs.

9. SpongeBob Tickler

You get to tickle Sponge Bob and watch him dance, which Little T loves to do. We have the lite version of this and that was free. We haven’t upgraded to the full version because the lite version is lots of fun.

10. The Muppets Animal Drummer App

Little T can not for the life of him do anything but bang random drums on this iphone app. Animal hangs his head in shame, but Little T doesn’t know that. 😉

Happy Halloween, everyone. I hope you get lots of candy in your pillow cases.