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My 4 years old boy loves animals! So when I received an email pitch on this app, I immediately requested to review it as I could definitely see the potential in our learning aspects! Without further ado, here goes my feedback...

* Title: Fine Feathered Friends: All About Birds 
* Price: $3.99
* Category: Books
* Released: 26 June 2013
* Version: 2.3
* Size: 50 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"Join The Cat in the Hat on a bird-watching tour as he takes Sally and Dick around the world to meet our fine feathered friends. Observe a variety of birds in their natural habitats such as ostriches, bee hummingbirds, flycatchers, bald eagles, penguins and more. Plus, see what's waiting for Sally and Dick when they return home in The Cat in the Hat's Fine Feather, All-Weather Flying Machine! Children will learn the common features of birds, the traits of the world's biggest and smallest birds and the different sounds that birds make. In addition, they'll discover fun facts along the way by tapping on instant glossary words in bold."

* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* I like the storyline where it teaches us all about our feathered friends, the birds. The parts on their body, the different type of birds in the world, the sounds they make and so on.

* For example, at the picture below, I love that I can show my boy the body parts on a bird and I go on to explained to him why birds have beaks and not mouth like us humans.

* I find myself learning new things too such as the male Emperor penguin guarding over its eggs until they hatches! An eye opener!

You can purchase the "Fine Feathered Friends: All About Birds" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

Towards the end of May this year, I blogged about our upcoming product reviews for Skechers again and yes, it has been such an awesome opportunity to be able to work with Skechers again! I have previously shared our review on Ben's awesome kid's shoes, the "Skechers Boys' Hot Lights: Damager - Police II Shoes" so this round will be on Alyson's "Skechers Girls' Lite Dreamz - Dreamweaver Shoes":

Description from the product page:
"She'll be running on clouds wearing the SKECHERS Lite Dreamz - Dreamweaver shoe. Smooth matte or metallic leather, synthetic and mesh fabric upper in a bungee laced slip on sporty athletic training sneaker with stitching and overlay accents."

We have quite a tough time trying to get our 1.5 years old girl to try out her shoes. She has long outgrown her Skechers Twinkle Toes: Shuffles - Cammie Cow Shoes and is currently wearing a pair of Ladybug design shoes I got her from Tesco. She tried 4 pairs of shoes, different designs and colors and she started getting restless and cranky having to change so many shoes... and we decided shoe #2 looks the best on her.

So let's see how this awesome shoes look like. We settled on this pair as it is not too overly pink and we thought blue and pink is a nice color combo on our girl. Plus I like that the shoes do not have too much blings on it hahahaha... Another important criteria that made me choose this design is the comfy padding around the ankle area. The shoe base is tough and thick, solid to the touch and I feel that it is a good support for our girl.

As with her previous shoes, Alyson of course still can't tie her shoes yet so I love that this shoes came with a Velcro strap which can be easily taken off and stick back, easy for us to handle the shoes. I also like this shoes design as it sort of matches mine hahaahah..  mother-daughter pairing hehehe...

Pictures below were taken during our family outings:

Based on our previous experience with Skechers shoes, we are of course happy our girl is wearing Skechers shoes again as we feel she is safe in it and can protect her (especially at this very hyperactive toddler stage!) and yet it makes her look cute and cool at the same time! 

Our vedict? An awesome shoes yet it looks stylish and edgy for a kid! Skechers never disappoint us at all and will continue to have our support and praises!

You can check out the designs at http://skechers.com.my/index.php

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the product by Skechers in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

We had just recently reviewed "Just Helping My Dad" and now, we have the privilege to add this story app to our collection!

* Title: Just Me and My Cousin
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Released: May 23, 2013
* Current Version: 2.3
* Size: 37.4 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"Little Critter visits his aunt, uncle and cousin in this charming story. The day starts off well but Little Critter quickly learns that it's not always easy (or fun!) playing with his cousin. After pillow fights, tattletailing and checkerboards overturned, Little Critter is ready to go home. What will his cousin do to save the day?"

One of the reasons why I wanted to add this story app into our collections is because our boy is regularly in touch with his cousins so I think he can totally relate himself with Little Critter and I was wondering what we can learn from this story app as well.

What's good?

* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* I took this opportunity in this story app to teach my boy that although Little Critter's cousin is very mischievious, he should not follow his footsteps and must play nicely and fair and not engage in rough play as shown by Little Critter's cousin.

* I took the opportunity in the page above to show my boy that we have to say sorry and admit our mistakes when we do wrong and we should be remorseful and try to patch up any mistakes so that we can preserve good relationships with others.

You can purchase the "Just Me and My Cousin" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"