Godstone Farm Surrey - first sunny weekend of June 08

First sunny weekend of June 2008 in London so went out to a beautiful farm in Surrey called the Godstone Farm. Maryam absolutely loved it and here are some of the glimpses.

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Online Games for Toddlers

Some of the best online toddlers games for your child. Many of these may well be educational, but our priority here is that they entertain…otherwise someone’s gonna start prying the keys out of the keyboard.

TOP THREE

ANIMAL GAMES

PLANT GAMES

  • Dora’s Magical Garden Choose from a large number of seeds, plant them, and make them grow.
  • Snuffy’s Magic Garden Water the soil to make flowers grow. Other interactions make sounds too.
  • Paper Flower Garden Drop flower seeds in the garden and water them to make them grow. Flowers are black and white because you’re supposed to print and color them. By Crayola.com.
  • Dora the Explorer: Find the Map OK…not actually a plant game, but you do try to find the map in the rainforest scene. Good if your kid is a Dora fan. Mine loves the map…go figure.

VEHICLE GAMES

  • Scrambler’s Rumble This simple race game with a rumbling ATV chased by a dog will please many at BobtheBuilder.com.

BABIES AND PEOPLE GAMES

  • Find the Baby Click on objects to find baby hiding in each scene. Baby says “Peek-a-boo” when found. Spanish version too.
  • Who’s at the Door? Dog answers door to reveal various types of workers. Fisher-Price.com
  • Dora’s Dress-Up One of the best dress-up game designs we’ve seen.
  • Dora’s Cooking Select right food ingredients to make each dish
  • Choo Choo Choices A unique story game about sharing and caring. A blunt but effective tool for brainwashing your kid into sharing..er..teaching compassion. From TV Ontario.

ABC’s GAMES

  • Learn your ABC’s A straightforward introduction to the letters from Fisher-Price.com, hit anywhere on keyboard to play.
  • Animated ABC’s ABC Blocks link to letters with sounds, photos, and animations for each. Good stuff, but a little slow-paced.
  • Bembo’s Zoo A unique ABCs game where the letters transform into animals.
  • Oobi Letters Oobi, the taking hand, hosts letter game which introduces and tests you on the letter sounds.

COLORS, SHAPES, SIZES, ETC.

  • Colors and Shapes Teaches basic shapes and colors with animated shapes. Hit any key to play. Fisher-Price.com
  • Boohbah Patterns Use Click the Poohbah characters to make play with a a variety of patterns making funny sounds, movements, and color changes.
  • Leaping Boohbahs Click the character whose matches the the bubble which floats overhead. From PBS kids.
  • Mickey Mouse Mousekespotter Character-laden but good shape/pattern learning game.
  • Super Breakout Atari’s free web version of their classic breakout game is a good starter video game for learning mouse skills. You need to log-in.
  • Five Hungry Crocodiles Learn colors by feeding the right color fish to each croc in this game. Spanish version too.
  • Which is Bigger? Game Choose which thing is bigger.
  • Swimming is Fun for Fish Guide the lantern fish around obstacles in this game to learn a few preposition words: over, under etc. Song included.

DRAWING & COLORING

NUMBERS GAMES

MEMORY GAMES

  • Pom Pom’s Shell Game Keep track of the ball in this Babar version of the classic street hustler’s shell game.

BUBBLE GAMES

  • Bubbles Bursting Burst bubbles with a telescopic hand.
  • Bubble Bugs Blow bubbles to capture bugs. Relaxing music.
  • Tub Time Pop bubbles with the spacebar to reveal creatures inside. Annoying music.
  • Space Pop If your baby is a bubble addict like ours, you’ll like this simple bubble popping game from Crayola.com
  • Bubble Tractor Music and a bubble-blowing tractor. Click bubbles to pop them. By Fisher-Price.com

MUSIC GAMES

  • Tigga Togga Bizarre and totally awesome set of scenes where you can create musical mixes. From TV Ontario.
  • The Great Sky Race A Disney’s Little Einsteins game. Use mouse to guide rocket ship up and down, catching music notes. A little hard for toddler to play but may be good for basic mouse skills practise. Classical music soundtrack.
  • Jack’s Big Music Show: Play Instruments Play instruments to the music or dance the freeze dance
  • Jack’s Big Music Show: Videos Play Watch all the music videos from the show. From Noggin.com
  • Jam with Wiley the Sheep Play one of several musical instruments by clicking along with the music and scrolling music notes as an animated sheep dances
  • Boohbahs Dance Use a control panel to adjust the mix of a silly music loop. Choose dance moves for the hypnotic Boohbah characters from PBS kids.
  • Monkey Music Move your monkey/mouse over the shapes to play with different musical riffs.

ABSTRACT GAMES

  • SNM#1 This abstract web toy is not designed specifically for babies, but it makes ours laugh like crazy. Each letter key pressed yields a different reward.

ONLINE STORYBOOKS

Picture Gallery - May 2008

Our visit to Hever Castle once again along with a quick tour to NoSuch Park around the bank holiday weekend proved wonderful. See some glimpses below:

Maryam’s Exclusive for May

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Hever Castle

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Headaches during Pregnancy

One of the common phases people, especially of women, is headache during pregnancy. Considered as a common complaint during pregnancy, specifically during the first and third trimesters, doctors say it is rarely a signal of a serious problem. During pregnancy, experts say that the possible cause of headache during this time is quite uncertain.

In the first trimester, headaches occur because of hormone changes you experience while in the third trimester, headaches are felt because of your having to carry additional weight and changes in your usual posture.

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Welcome to Maryam’s growing up blog. We are going to share Maryam’s weekends in London and her story of cute moments and developments. You will also see featured articles on parenting from Maryam’s Mom Aisha. All parents and family members who have toddlers running around the house please share your learnings as you learn and develop as better parents day by day.