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Best Toys for Kids Who Love to Explore and Discover

October 22, 2014 By Shannah Coe 3 Comments

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I have two very active kids. My youngest,, who is four, is always exploring the world around him and trying to discover pretty much anything new he can. I love finding toys that help him discover new and exciting sounds, activities and ways to view the world. I have started shopping for his Christmas presents and found a few of the best toys for kids who love to explore and discover just like he does!

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A Glimpse: Rainy Day Games

August 24, 2014 By Shannah Coe Leave a Comment

“This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and EQtainment, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia  #Qsracetothetop http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV”

Our summer weather has been amazing. Beautiful days have kept us outside playing all the time and we rarely hear “I’m bored.” That all changed during a streak of rainy days and we were left wondering what to do to keep the kids entertained. I like to avoid TV and iPad time as much as possible so I started thinking of rainy day games we could play. The first one we tried: Q’s Race to the Top. 

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Brushing to the Music

August 21, 2014 By Shannah Coe 11 Comments

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf Tooth Tunes.

We love music in our house. If the iPad isn’t playing on our playlists, H is usually singing a random song she has made up in her head. Even E loves to play with all kinds of musical toys or dance around the family room when music is playing. We use music to get them interested in activities all the times because it seems to work so well. That is the idea behind one of my favorite new things in our house: Tooth Tunes.

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The Butterfly Effect

May 12, 2011 By Shannah Leave a Comment

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A lot has been happening around our recently with grandparents visiting for long periods of time (an awesome help to mom and dad!). My mom is a big gift giver to the kids and likes to get them little things to play with. Butterflies (or their larvae) came with her for her last visit. Wanting to do a special and fun project with H, my mom bought the Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden
Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden

The kit comes with just about everything you need to “grow” 10 butterflies. It takes about 4 weeks or so to complete all the steps. It was exciting to see H so interested in it…especially for Mathlete Hubby who is really into scientific stuff. She would come home each day and run over to see what was happening. Once the butterflies emerge from the cocoons, you feed them orange slices or sugar water until their wings are strong enough to fly.

The butterflies will sit in the netting with their wings together, vibrating, for a few days. This is how they prepare their wings for flying.

Last night, all of our butterflies were ready to fly so we had a small butterfly release “party” with our neighbors, ages 4 and 7. Someone was very excited about the butterflies…

H did the honors of unzipping the container to release the butterflies.
We stayed out for awhile watching all of the butterflies fly away. Then, the kids got antsy so we decided to celebrate our butterfly success with cookies! (Don’t worry…we cooked these first!)

Tomorrow it is back to the to-do list…

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Filed Under: Kids Tagged With: butterflies, fun with kids, kid stuff

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Hi, I'm Shannah! Welcome to My Suburban Kitchen, where you'll find tons of recipe ideas including family friendly dinners, sinfully delicious desserts and even Paleo and Whole30 recipes. I love spending time in our kitchen and also share little glimpses of my life as a wife to one awesome Mathlete and working mom to 2 cute kids! I hope you'll grab a seat at our table and enjoy your time in the kitchen with us.

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