Month: March 2010

  • Pinecrest Garden’s Egg-Stravaganza

    – Pinecrest Garden’s is a beautiful park and they always have great events going on. This weekend we went to their Easter Egg-stravaganza event and I  was not too impressed with the Easter egg hunt for toddler aged children. As you can see in the picture below, the egg hunt was in the Splash n’ Play area. They had placed a bunch of eggs on the floor and when they yelled ‘GO’ all of the children were supposed to get the eggs. Now this is where the problem began. The parents were grabbing all of the eggs for their children before they even said “GO!”. My daughter was only able to grab 2 eggs. We basically paid $5 for 2 eggs which had one mint in each egg. You can imagine she was not too excited about this! I can understand if the parents were helping the younger kids because there were children of all ages involved, but the Easter egg hunt was for children ages 1 through 3. It appeared to be more like an Easter Egg Hunt for adults! The parents were jumping in front of my daughter and other children and literally grabbing eggs out of their hands! Parent’s please remember that this is about the kids and you should practice what you preach; use your manners and follow the rules!

    If anyone had a similar experiences I would like to hear about it. You can comment below.

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  • Pose Prints

    PosePrints is a site which you can customize stationary and invitations with a “poes” that looks like you! This is a very fun and playful idea for your child’s next birthday party. To go along with the theme of the invitations you can customize magnets with your child’s caricature that says ” Emma”s 3rd Birthday” to give as thank you gifts. It’s practical yet playful and you know this gift will be displayed for everyone to see! I also love their notepads as a back to school gift for the kids. You can go to PosePrints and create your own caricature now, click on the MyPose button on the toolbar. Have fun!




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  • R.F. Orchids

    -The weather has been so nice lately so we decided to take a drive down to R.F. Orchids in Homestead. The great thing about living in Miami is the ability to visit the farms in the Redlands and then go to dinner at a 5 star restaurant in the beach. R.F. Orchids is a beautiful orchid farm with many varieties of orchids. On the weekends they offer a free tour at 11am. Although this is not really a “kids attraction”, it is the perfect place to visit with your child who is 1 year old or younger. Babies really love to see all the bright colors of nature. My daughter is almost 3 years old  and she was more interested in the cats roaming around the orchid farm. Although, she did love her mini phalaenopsis orchid and held it on the whole car ride home (until she feel asleep). After leaving we made a quick stop at one of the local U-pick farms and had a delicious shake.

    28100 Southwest 182nd Avenue
    Homestead, FL 33030-1804
    (305) 245-4570

    www.rforchids.com

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