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Earlier this year, Lego debuted their Lego Friends line aimed towards girls. The line was not without some controversy both within the Lego community and to those who felt it was stereotyping girls. What is so different about the Lego Friends? The Lego Friends are a group of 5 girls that are more doll like […]
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It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Whether you are watching for the game or for the commercials, it is an annual tradition and can be important to keep the kids entertained. For me this is especially critical this year as my team – the New York Giants are playing. As she gets older, I am trying to
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Update: My Urban Toddler closed the play area a few years after this. They continued to operate a store both in Saline and Arbor Hills. They have since closed the Saline store and only have the Arbor Hills location. I just saw a Twitter post from My Urban Toddler that they are going to be
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“Driving” at Ford Exhibit Yesterday we visited the North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center in Detroit. The show is open from 9a-10p through January 21 and 9a-7p on January 22. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for Children (7-12) and Seniors (65+). Children 6 and under are free. They have a coat check
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Update Nov 2013: New Zoo closed in August 2012. The Jungle Gym has opened in the old New Zoo facility. = And Jungle Gym has also closed.2011 was a rough year for indoor play spaces in the Ann Arbor area with the closing of Jungle Java/Mocha Mountain and Zoobilee and Ypsilanti. The Chelsea Treehouse was also closed
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This fall Chelsea Treehouse moved to a new location and reopened on Wednesday November 23, 2011. The new location is more convenient from Ann Arbor as it is closer to I-94, although it lacks the charm of being in downtown Chelsea. I had purchased the Groupon deal in November for 5 Treehouse passes. It was
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2011 Princess Day Today I was saddened to hear that Tree Town Toys has elected not to renew their lease and will be closing in a few weeks. Read their announcement on the Tree Town Toys Facebook page. As a specialty toy retailer they carried products that were hard to find. At almost 6, my
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Jungle Java has closed in Ann Arbor. The nearest location is in Canton. In the past week my daughter and I have visited Jungle Java twice at their newly reopened Ann Arbor location. We had only been there once before they had closed, so I don’t have a lot of points of comparison. My impression
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Today my daughter and I attended EMU Theater’s performance of Go, Dog. Go! Overall we enjoyed the performance and I would recommend it.The opening scene was a little slow to develop and kids started getting antsy. Throughout the show there were a few things happening at stage level which were hard for some kids seated
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I grew up watching the classic Christmas specials on TV. Every year it would be the same ones and it was always priority to make sure you were available the night it aired. I was 9 when we got our first VCR (a BetaMax), so maybe we started recording them. The classic specials have all
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