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31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from Capt. E ✈️

* swipe to see her official-not-official pilot badge

23/10/2023

✨ Just a little Hocus Pocus focus on The Sanderson Sisters 🐈‍⬛ Save & share this beloved Halloween classic inspired DIY 💜💚🧡

Our silly Salem siblings, Sarah, Winifred, and Mary, were inspired by the adorable TP ROLL-models at Little d’s Salon from our amazing friends 💖

Sanderson Sisters Paper Dolls:
🔮 TP roll
🔮 Yarn
🔮 Colored paper
🔮 Tape
🔮 Supplies for decorating (Dot sticker, googly eyes, bits of confetti from our hole puncher, black pen)

We will be handing these paper witches over to E for more hair-raising yarn care, style, and management 💇🏻‍♀️ Tag us if you give these a try, we’d love to see your Sanderson squad ❤️ Like the way we play? Give us a follow for more 🌈

07/09/2023

On a quest for healthier hair, revitalizing her natural waves/curls, and reducing morning tangles/frizz, I think we found the gentlest, easiest way to protect E’s hair at night ✨💤🌙

We didn’t want anything that was uncomfortable or more than 10 seconds complicated to add to her bedtime routine. After learning more about curly hair care we went with the no-fuss no-muss option of using a silk/satin pillowcase and scrunchie to protect her hair in a loose bun on top of her head. We also opted for silk for the softest smoothest natural fiber, hypoallergenic (E has super sensitive skin), moisture-retaining (awesome for curls), and cooling feel 😌

Found this adorable silk pillowcase for kids (perfect compliment to her blush pink space 🪐 themed room) and over-sized silk scrunchie from . Swipe for results of how gorgeously shiny her hair turned out this morning. No tangles, frizzys, or products needed. Just unraveled her hair from the night before, popped in a hair-tie and headband to keep her hair out of her face, and voila! It took less than 2 minutes!!! Check out today’s stories for unboxing and closer look

05/09/2023

…and just like that, we’re starting KINDERGARTEN ❤️ Happy 1st day of school to this love bug and all our friends starting/returning to school or continuing their incredible journeys at home!

(…almost made it without the water works this morning, but this post sent me over the edge… sooo close🥲)

29/06/2023

🧗🏽‍♀️Is your preschooler climbing on EVERYTHING??? E certainly is! Our little sensory seeker from the beginning, at 5 she’s still looking for sensory input from her body’s movements to learn about the world around her 🏃🏻‍♀️

Movements like climbing, swinging, hanging, jumping and anything that gets her up-side down gives her the heavy work, deep muscle, and head tilting movement she’s craving 🤗

While we do what we can to get her the sensory input she fancies outside the house (like trips to the park and indoor play places) the kid is still climbing and hanging off furniture, bannisters, door/refrigerator handles, and her papa at home 🏡

When we learned our friends at Sprout were launching their new gross motor items this week we jumped at the chance to try out their updated folding climbing triangle (tapered legs, sleeker more compact foot print, and available at a lower price) as an alternative to all the accidents waiting to happen 🫣

Since it’s arrival, there’s been a lot less, “what’s your plan if…”s, “I’m worried you might get hurt if…”s, “that’s not safe”s, and “no”s from her grown-ups and a lot more skills building, confidence, and freedom to move safely for her! We also got the ramp add-on for more play options and open-ended fun!

Guess what?! You can get 15% off any Sprout gross motor items through next week (July 3rd at 11:59 MDT) with our special code ✨ ‘LetsMove’ ✨ (that’s on top of the new lower price point!)

🤸🏻‍♀️ E is playing on the Wooden Climbing Triangle and Wooden Climbing Triangle Ramp (kindly gifted by brand) from

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17/04/2023

🎨 One of our favorite and easiest ways to strengthen E’s creativity is to make time and allow for the freedom to create everyday. Not just with store bought activities and art kits, which we do actually adore, but with what’s even simpler… a blank canvas and her ideas💡

Toss in some purpose… celebrated a friends birthday this weekend, so E was invited to create a card from scratch 🧑🏻‍🎨 … and viola ✨ A meaningful project that encourages creative development!

🪑E is working at her Montessori Half-Round Table (with adjustable table height = grows with your child) and Wooden Kids Chair from Their front facing Lexico Book Display Shelf which we recently updated with our Spring books is nearby ⭐️ Use code: WeGo10 for 10% off their website

06/04/2023

🗽We had a few hours in New York City 🍎yesterday, so we headed to the Heyman Family Art Lab at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 🚕

It’s a hands-on space where kiddos and their grown-ups can drop-in and engage in creative activities. We were invited to experiment, play, and create as we explored lines, shapes, and colors using techniques of modern art 🤩

E had a blast layering various textures, shapes, and opacities over their light-box and watching her art come to life on the lab’s walls. She spent ages arranging and constructing with bits of paper shapes and tape to create a line composition. She also loved drawing to different styles of music from their music player to express what she heard 🎶 Swipe to see her proudly sharing the pieces she created 🖼️

She had such an amazing time it was almost impossible to get her to leave the art lab 😅 We were there for so long we didn’t get a chance to see much of the exhibits or check out the other kids activities available throughout the museum before we had to go. Want to see some of the fun? Check out our stories today for our MINI-VLOG of our morning at MoMA 🖥️

If you are looking for a family-friendly museum to visit while in NYC we HIGHLY recommend this one ✨

The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Family Art Lab at MoMA
🎨 Access is FREE with museum admission (Children 16 & under are always free)
🎨 Located on floor 1 of the Education and Research Building
🎨 Open Daily, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
🎨 Intended for individual visitors & families (cannot accommodate groups)

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16/03/2023

📌 Save and Share this sugar cookie icing hack for fancy looking custom cookies 😍

We had visions of adding sweet strawberry 🍓 shaped sugar cookies to our party favors 🎉 this weekend but after getting a few quotes for custom cookies (yikes!😅) we decided to try making them ourselves👍 We got a great recipe for amazingly soft sugar cookies (DM me if you want the recipe) and just needed to figure out how to ice them like the pros… no big deal, easy peasy, how hard can it be??? Very hard, icing pretty cookies is not easy… at all. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn how to master the art of making those gorgeous treats 👩🏻‍🍳

We heard of a super simple cookie icing hack using fondant icing (like you see on wedding cakes, instead of the trickier traditional royal icing) and wanted to give it a go. It worked out so well, looking exactly how we imagined and ended up being so easy we had to share 💕

For this hack all you need:
⭐️ Ready to use fondant
⭐️ Fondant tools
⭐️ Your favorite cookies for decorating
⭐️ Water

All we did for this hack was roll out the fondant (we used a roller with guides for consistency) and used the same cutters we used for our cookies to cut the same shape in our fondant. After the cookies were baked and cooled we simply brush a little bit of water onto our cut piece of fondant and slap it right on to the cookie. That’s it! That ity bity bit of water makes the fondant sticky and turns it into a giant icing sticker. Slide through the carousal to see our process and how adorable the cookies were added to our party favors/“thank you BERRY much” baskets. Feel free to save, share, and DM me with any questions.

14/03/2023

This is 5! 🥳 Wishing a Happy Happy Birthday to the singing-est, dancing-est, random puppy dog petting-est, strawberry/unicorn/ princess loving-est, bravest, kindest, and snuggly-est rainbow 🌈 baby love bug we know!

Here are some pictures from E’s “Berry Sweet”Birthday party this weekend. We had it at an indoor playground in East Falls (about 10 minutes away from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, DM if you want the link to the venue).

It was a great time playing with our fave buds, carb loading on yummy strawberry themed treats, and getting our faces painted (We invited an amazing 3-D face artist to create fun designs on kids and adults, she even customized an adorable gem clustered unicorn horn for E to match her birthday theme and dress- slide 9 😍 DM if you want her contact info)

If you’ve been following in stories you’ve seen some of the BTS planning and preparing involved in creating some of the treats we made for E’s party. We’ll be sharing some of yum with a closer look at a few of the sweets on the grid. Feel free to save, share, and DM me with questions if you have a little one into 🍓🍓🍓, planning a sweet summer gathering (because strawberries make better sense then don’t you think 🤔), or just curious about anything we did.

📷 credit and special thank you to: (slides 1,8) (slide 2) and (slides 3,4,7,10)

15/02/2023

Just released Day 3! On this day E got to boogie with one of her favorite storybook heroes and we hung out with family friends at Hollywood Studios. Please go check it out! Don't forget to like and subscribe 💕

In this video, we start day three in Hollywood Studio’s Toy Story Land. We took advantage of early entry (early access to parks for certain hotels) and got o...

12/02/2023

If you've ever been curious about what American Airline's airport lounges have to offer, check out the latest on our channel. It's a quick bonus video about the Admirals Club lounges we visited on our last adventure

In this video, we give you a peek into American Airline’s Admirals Club. We checked out two of these airport lounges before our flights from Philadelphia In...

08/02/2023

Day 2 has dropped! We spent the whole day back at Magic Kingdom. We met up with friends for the first half of the day then split up for lunch. In this video we joined Pooh and friends from Hundred Acre Wood for lunch then got on more rides!!! Please go check out our latest Vlog and don't forget to subscribe 💕

On day two we headed back to Magic Kingdom in the morning to meet up with friends for early entry (early access to parks for certain hotels) and took advanta...

05/02/2023

We are back from our latest adventure and Day 1 of Disney World 2023 is up! Please go check out our latest VLOG and subscribe to our channel!

In this video we’re headed back to the most Magical place on Earth, Walt Disney World! Follow along as we share Day 1 of our January 2023 family vacation. We...

13/01/2023

The face we get when the travel gear comes out 🧳👀😬

We are days away from our next flight and getting our carry-ons sorted. E gets so excited when her BedBox (Ride-on, Carry-on, Sleep-on Suitcase for kids) makes an appearance, she knows an adventure is about to happen ✈️

Check out our stories to see what we’re packing. Do you pack a carry-on for your kiddos? What goes in yours?

🧳 BedBox, Crew Backpack, and CloudSleeper kids travel bed are from (🔗in bio)

27/11/2022

Our latest adventure took us to NYC for Afternoon Tea. Check out our newest video and follow along as we take our 4 year old to a children's tea themed after her favorite storybook character and then spend the rest of the day trip exploring the festive sights and sound of Midtown Manhattan in November.

We met up with friends in New York City to experience Afternoon Tea at the Palm Court inside the Plaza Hotel. In this video we feature the Children’s Eloise ...

22/11/2022

In our latest vlog we take E to the Ballet to see one of her favorite fairytales, Cinderella at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Follow along to see where we pre-show, explore the theater, checkout the orchestra pit, and POV from our upgraded box seats 🩰

In this Video we take Ellie to her second ballet, Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella by the Philadelphia Ballet. We had an early pre-show lunch at the family friendl...

15/11/2022

Check out this crafty technique we tried with our Wonder Stix!

Let it GLOW!!! We are getting excited about the holidays and crafted some festive glowing lights out of paper! Such a fun and easy technique to try with your...

31/10/2022

🎃 Happy Halloween from Gabby (E) and the Gabby cats Pandy Paws (mama) DJ catnip (papa)

What a fun filled weekend! It was parent observation and dress up day at E’s ballet school (1st pic 📷 ), we had a blast exploring our childrens museum’s latest exhibit and Halloweekend festivities all dressed up (2nd pic), and found out the best place to park E’s Carlita at our little neighborhood’s Halloween costume parade… why with the other purple cars of course (3rd pic)

Have a safe one 💕👻💕

30/10/2022

🌈She asked for Rainbow Rainbows and kitty 🐈‍⬛ This was the masterpiece Jane Lashner, talented artist and owner of Fabulous Faces created for us 😍

We stopped by the yesterday for their not-so spooky Halloween Weekends event and were treated to some face painting along with trick-or-treating, live shows, and more!

How lucky were we to land at Ms. Jane’s table?!? This was E’s first official face painting experience so we were delighted with how gentle, kind, and engaging Ms. Jane was. E was absolutely thrilled with her rainbow kitty look and could not stop sharing her face with everyone 😆 Check out Ms. Jane’s page/website www.facepaintingphiladelphia.com if you’re looking for some fabulous face painting in or around the Philly area.

22/10/2022

Some learning fun with ping pong balls and household items

If your little ones are stating to put small words together like E, here’s a fun find the letter sounds game you can set up with things you might already hav...

19/10/2022

Things got a little BAT-ty with this next one 🦇🦇🦇 Checkout our latest video for a fun Halloween inspired STEM project for littles

We came up with this crafty not-so-spooky STEM BAT-tivity for a fun look at the invisible force of magnets and magnetic movement. E had a blast choreographin...

13/10/2022

Some paranormal problem solving for your preschoolers

We made Halloween inspired puzzles out of large craft sticks. Our little one loved solving them over and over. I think it was the google eyes… they make ever...

11/10/2022

Check out our latest activity for some not-too-spooky fun!

We set up this easy art activity for some no-so-spooky Halloween and counting fun. We used crayons to resist watercolor paint on our spooky paper canvas. Tha...

09/10/2022

E showing off her "Broadway Hands" under the marquee for Aladdin. We went to see a couple shows during Broadway Week and now officially have a theater lover on our hands. Check out our latest blog for our latest adventure 🎭

We took our preschooler to her first Broadway shows and it was amazing! It's Showtime! Our preschooler in front of New Amsterdam Theatre In this article we take you with us to New York City for Disney on Broadway. Follow along as we share details of our journey, experiences, and thoughts. If you're....

23/06/2022

Earlier this year we finally set out to update and transform E’s nursery into a Montessori inspired bedroom more appropriate for a preschooler. So far, we’ve shared how we organized and separated her room into functional spaces for rest and quiet play in an effort to help develop her independence and sense of accountability. Here’s the area we’ve designated for self-care and storage of clothes we rotate with her open wardrobe.

For her self-care/dresser set up, we included:

✨Shelving unit with tons of visibility and access, we use it’s
- Lowest shelf as a dressing table topped with drawer organizers for E’s fav hair accessories
- Open shelves as as open dresser with plenty of easily accessible baskets for storing extra clothes and handy for quick and easy organizing
✨Wall mirror hung at her height
✨Hanging shelf under mirror for small self care items
✨Wall art inspired by E’s interests and requests

Luce shelf (60/Double 40) from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

Little Nomad play mat (Ula in clay) from ⭐️ Use code APLAYWEGO10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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19/06/2022

✨ To our dream maker and doting everyday hero, thank you for everything you do for our little family ❤️ We love you Papa 🥰

💕Wishing a Happy Father’s Day to all the papas, papa-figures, waiting/wanting to be papas, and the cherished papas no longer here 💕

11/06/2022

🌈Save this fun for ball run inspo to try later! E loved this build so much (she helped construct and test it) just thought it needed a spot on the main grid too 🥰

To see it in action 🔴💨, please checkout this post on our Reels tab.

🪑Lexico Book Display Shelf and Lexico Book Shelf (part of the Literacy collection) is from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

Little Nomad play mat (Galery in Terrazzo) from ⭐️ Use code APLAYWEGO10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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08/06/2022

🐛Save this Very Hungry Caterpillar Coding activity for a fun hands-on way to introduce your preschoolers to coding!

For this activity we grabbed our magnetic tiles to help out one of our fave characters. We picked this story because E knows it backwards and forwards and we thought the order (sequencing) could help us create a familiar path with the baby steps (code) needed to make up the instructions (algorithm) to get our hungry friend towards his goal weight… big & fat (desired task)!

We started small by retelling the story and asking E (programmer) to watch how we move the hungry caterpillar (computer) on the board when we give it directions (directional coding). Then we asked her to decide only if we needed to go straight or turn to advance to the next green tile on our path to help find the next food tile our caterpillar would eat. Next we introduced the tiles that will tell our caterpillar which way to go (we stuck dots stickers with arrows on clear tiles). Once she got the hang of what direction the tiles represented, we invited her to start placing those tiles on our board. The tricky bit was figuring out which turn, right or left, to use and how to place them on our board to keep our friend on his path to not being hungry anymore.

When she’s independent, we’ll let her loose to “code” without prompting. Eventually, we can make it more challenging by making the board bigger, shuffling the food tiles, and adding obstacles on the path… turning this setup into a super cool perpetually puzzle that can be solved over and over again. Have you guys tried coding with your cuties? What are your thoughts on introducing it to little ones 3-6 years?

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13/05/2022

🌧 Its a rainy spring day for us this morning, but rain or shine we’re feeling fine and excited for the weekend 🙌 Papa’s back home after business travel ✈️ and E’s in-house ballet 🩰 demo at her school is tomorrow! ( …we finally get to see what our tiny dancers have been working on, will share in stories 😬)

Anyway, it’s a bit gray and gloomy here, so thought we’d pop in a bit of color to wish you guys a 🌈 Happy Friday ❤️

🪑Montessori Half-Round Table (with adjustable table height = grows with your child) and Wooden Kids Chair are from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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10/05/2022

We were going to take a week off the grid this week but couldn’t resist sharing this shot of E’s room. We are finally started dressing up her walls. Have to say, finding decor that matches the themes she requested (space, ballerinas, and pink 😅) was a bit tricky, but pretty happy with how this boho solar system print from fits in her room.

What do you think? Will share more of her room’s wall art in stories today 💕

🪑Alba Montessori Children’s Wardrobe is from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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28/04/2022

To support an internal sense of order we always try to designate a place for her things (from clothes, books, to toys). We’ve learned that modeling this type of organization in her environment can help develop independence, coordination, and a sense of accountability. We also wanted to separate her room into designated functional spaces, so along with an area for rest and self care (will share that soon 😬) we prepared a simple space for play within her bedroom.

Here’s a peek at the play area we set up. We used our play mat to help define the space and surrounded it with low-key activities she can enjoy when she wakes up and/or having quiet time in her room.

We included:
✨ Low shelf with mindful toys and activities that will engage rather than entertain (what independent-play dreams are made of)
✨ Front display bookcase to encourage “reading”
✨ Large open (and cushioned- our hardwood floors are brutal) space for plenty of room to play

Little Nomad play mat (Ula in clay) from ⭐️ Use code APLAYWEGO10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

Lexico display bookcase (small) and Luce shelf (low 40) are from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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25/04/2022

🎼 Musical Monday morning friends! We love the marvelous benefits of music and movement for little ones and try to designate a special spot in the playroom for it (no matter how many times it’s rearranged 😅). We’ve learned that providing music and movement helps to strengthen:
* Physical development
* Listening
* Social and emotional development
* Language and communication
* Creativity

In our latest update we have:
🎶 child-sized instruments
🎶 noise makers
🎶 hand-cranked music boxes
🎶 various sound books related to instruments and music

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21/04/2022

🌸 Update time! Next up: ✨E’s room✨ Our nursery to big girl room transition is almost complete. Her requests were pink 💖, space/stars 🚀, ballerinas🩰, and recently flowers 💐 since we’ve been chatting about them so much lately. We’re working on her self-care area and quiet play space, so will share the rest of her room soon 💕

We wanted to keep the importance of a simple environment in mind 😍 We’re learning how simplifying the home in a mindful way can help children access creative and spiritual insights. Where they sleep, keeping things simple, orderly, and beautiful can be quite relaxing, supporting rest and rejuvenation.

Bookcases and work table from ⭐️ Use code WeGo10 for 10% off their website (🔗in bio)

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