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Some things I'm getting this year for the 5-8 year old set:

First Journal or Diary

Eeboo's Tell Me A Story Creative Cards

Spot-It Game

Rosie Flo's Coloring Books

and for the 8 year olds (or a little more advanced readers), the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio -- a MUST GET for your 8+ year olds.

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Sometimes I make up words.

I pre-ordered three of these books (two to give as gifts) with much excitement and I cannot tell you how disappointed I am. I usually love anything published by McSweeney's but this book does not deliver.

They are awful! It is a huge understatement to say it takes a fair amount of rubbing to get the hidden messages to appear. It took my husband and I on average 2-3 minutes of rubbing one small area to get anything to appear legibly. Show me a child who wants to wait 2-3 minutes to uncover each small area of text/pictures when there are 5-6 small areas per page?!

The hair dryer does work, but c'mon!! It's not exactly convenient or easy to read to your child with hair dryer in hand or safe to let your little ones use a hair dryer by themselves. I guess for a one-time novelty type thing, this book is okay. But, I feel it was such a waste of money and will not be giving them out as gifts.

This might be a dumb question, but we have a room with painted over wallpaper and it appears our previous owners did a good job of painting because unless you are really, really close, you can't see the seams at all and there is no bubbling, peeling or cracking. Our problem is the paint color is a hideous brown that doesn't match with the furniture we have.

Can you paint over painted wallpaper?? What about wallpapering over painted wallpaper?

I'm trying to avoid the removal process if at all possible!

Agree with elizarock and gracie - cute idea, but very poor execution, in my opinion. Well, I should say that we've only read the Good Night Hawaii book (received as a gift), so the others might be better? But the one we have could in no way be compared to Good Night Moon.

Another Flip user and huge fan here. We have the Flip Mino HD and I cannot tell you how much we use it. It's the single best purchase we made in preparation for our baby. He's just over one year old and I can't believe all the great moments (first smile, first steps, etc.) that we caught on camera because it's just that accessible and easy. You pull it out, turn the power button on, hit the big red button to start recording, turn the big red button to stop recording. That simple.

Also, I cannot emphasize enough how easy it is to upload and share the videos. It plugs directly into your computer and automatically uploads the videos. Then, with one click, your video is shared either via email, youtube, facebook, whichever social media venue you want to use to share it. With one click!! Soooo easy.

I definitely want to try these over the changing table and I love the idea of cutting them into shapes! Like jackied302, I would only worry about whether baby could easily remove them.

Michael Miller has some really cute robot themed fabric -
http://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/MMF/Swatch.cfm?&Kwds=robot

Also, I used etsy a lot when putting together my nursery. There are a lot of cute robot themed nursery items there. A quick search came up with crib bedding, prints and more -

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30826936&ref=sr_gallery_7&&ga_search_query=robot crib&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31916520&ref=sr_gallery_1&&ga_search_query=robot crib&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32474625&ref=sr_gallery_6&&ga_search_query=robot baby&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30595462&ref=sr_gallery_17&&ga_search_query=robot baby&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28207480&ref=sr_gallery_19&&ga_search_query=robot decor&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=2&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title

Good luck - I love nurseries that are original and this seems like a great theme to me!

I decorated the glittery pumpkins shown in pic 2, two years ago for Thanksgiving after seeing them in Martha Stewart's Living magazine. They were so easy and so gorgeous and I received many compliments on them.
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