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Driving Me to the Brink

Children can get a little obsessive over certain toys, food and activities.  You have to laugh otherwise it’s entirely possible the white coats will turn up. The Dinosaur Book I once viewed this book as a fresh alternative to the hell that was Tinyrannosaurus and the Neversaurus on high repeat.  I can now read this [...]

12 Days of Christmas

On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 12 Table Scratches 11 Piping Bags Pounded 10 Tarnished TVs 9 Walls Need Painting 8 Doors are Jamming 7 Books Are Shredded 6 Penguins Fleeing 5 Destroyed Dinos 4 Calling (for help) Birds 3 Electric Shocks 2 Drawers are Sagging And 1 Santa [...]

My Son has a Dinosaur Habit

Dinosaurs have taken over my life.  It crept in slowly.  The odd Tyrannosaurus handed down by relatives, the surreptitious glances in toy aisles.  It was fun to begin with – some Land Before Time, a bit of Dinosaur Train – nobody was getting hurt right?  Somewhere along the way it blew into a full scale [...]

Octonauts, to your stations!

It will be Mini Savage’s birthday in November.  When I saw this Octonauts Octopod playset I had to have it…I mean he had to have it. I look at it and get all nostalgic for my Kenner Family Treehouse I had when I was little.  The one my mother gave away to the cousins we [...]