The New Parents Guide Blog

You’ve got one more month to visit the wonderful Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo with your family before it closes for the winter.  What a nice way to spend the day with your little ones!

This 38-acre zoo features over 1500 animals!  It’s open every day from 9 to 5 through October 10.  Some of the fascinating areas of the Zoo include the African Journey, Indonesian Rainforest, and Australian Adventure.  Then there’s the Central Zoo, featuring fun rides, a miniature train, and all kinds of animals from penguins to capuchin monkeys.  Check out the alligator and giant tortoise yard as well.

Don’t miss the website feature:  Baby Animal Photo Album.  They’re so adorable!

On weekends in October, the Zoo will open from noon to 5 for Wild Zoo Halloween with costume parades, trick-or-treat, and special pumpkin treats for the zoo animals.

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With the weather cooling off and the days getting shorter, September is a perfect time to visit the zoo.   If you’re in the Memphis, Tennessee area, you’ll definitely want to make time to see the Memphis Zoo, home to over 3,500 animals.

Whether your child likes lions, pandas, hippos or turtles, the Memphis Zoo has them all and many more.  The Zoo hosts many special events, such as the upcoming Harvest Fest, Homeschool Workshops, and Stroller Cubs:  a storytime-at-the-zoo event with animal stories and real animals, for children 18 months to four years old.

Pack a picnic lunch, bring your wagon, and prepare to spend a wonderful day at the Memphis Zoo.

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Over a million moms have tried and loved the My Brest Friend breastfeeding pillow.  Its unique wraparound, snap-around design allows moms to move around without disturbing their nursing baby. In addition, it allows plenty of support, comfort and security.

Why go all the way around?  First of all, the pillow stays in place.  Second, that allowed for a backrest that will encourage Mom to have good posture while nursing.  (I can attest from my own experience just how valuable that is!)  Besides all that, there’s a clever little pocket where Mom can keep her water bottle, small pack of tissues, or other little necessity that she’d like to have at hand while nursing.

My Brest Friend has a whole product line, not just these wonderful pillows.  They’ve also created a unique nursing cover that offers a completely discreet way to breastfeed your baby in public, while still being able to check on the baby.  Made of breathable, washable 100% cotton, this cover is adjustable for size and even accommodates the My Brest Friend pillow.

In addition, they offer a nursing stepstool and a full line of vitamins formulated to support a nursing mother’s unique nutritional needs.  There are even travel pillows, pillow covers and a specially-designed pillow for nursing moms of multiples!

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Revisit your favorite fairy tales with your child in Enchanted Forest!

Featuring Storybook Lane, Western Town, and Old English Village, Enchanted Forest in Salem, Oregon is a magical experience for the whole family.  There are rides, shops, and plenty of places to explore.  You can even bring your own picnic lunch!

It’s not just for the little ones, either.  For a truly spooky time, try the Haunted House:  three levels of chilling surprises.  My teens would love that!

It’s open on weekdays through Labor Day, then on weekends only in September.

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Adding a new member to the family, no matter how adorable, means that you’ll need to rethink even the most well-established household routines.  And new members of the family, no matter how tiny, always come along with a whole bunch of stuff.

Where is it all going to go?

Jennifer Ford Berry, author of Organize Now!, understands the concerns parents have–she’s a parent herself.  She’s dealing with kitchen clutter and toy clutter and papers brought home from school as well as junk mail, pantry storage and even the home office.  Organize Now! is a week-by-week guide to organizing the stuff you have into the space you have, and to deciding what you really need to keep (and where best to keep it.)

I’m reading this book now, and I find that she has broken down tasks into manageable chunks.  You don’t have to do the whole house right now.  You can start at the beginning and work right through, or you can choose a chapter and jump right in to organize the space that needs the most help right now.  Everything is laid out step by step, with easy-to-follow checklists, common-sense tips, and even space for notes.

Even the construction of the book is well-thought-out.  It’s spiral-bound with a spine covering the spirals so they won’t get caught in something and unravel.  And because it’s spiral-bound, it lays flat on your desk or table.  The paper is very sturdy, and it’s a very pretty book, decorated with colorful borders on each page.  It’s made to look like a planner because it works like one–it’s your organization planner!

Enjoy your weekend–I’m planning a family picnic on Mr. College Bound’s last weekend at home.  See you Monday with a fresh basket of bargains!

Yes, there’s fun for the whole family in Las Vegas!   Circus Circus’ very own theme park, Adventuredome, boasts five acres of indoor fun!  So no matter how hot it gets in southern Nevada, your family will stay cool while you enjoy all the great rides.

You’ll find attractions with Sponge Bob and Dora the Explorer themes as well as classic carousels and Ferris wheels for the whole family.  There’s even mini-bowling–without the rental shoes.  The Circus Circus clowns perform several times daily at a must-see show.

You can also enjoy mini golf, arcade games and even indoor rock climbing, as well as plenty of rides for the truly adventurous.  Tickets can be purchased for individual rides, or you can get an all-day pass to ride all you want.  (I love this! I don’t like to go on the rides, so if my family visits a theme park, I’m the “beast of burden” who waits outside the exit gate of each ride and holds everyone else’s stuff while they’re upside down on the roller coaster.  And it drives me crazy when I have to pay for the privilege of doing this!)

Bring the whole family to Adventuredome, a climate-controlled theme park everyone can enjoy.

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