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Wow! Up until today, I have no idea there is such a thing called Green Choice Carpet cleaning!

Have you heard of such terms? In case you haven't well, it is actually a method to clean your carpets (rugs, leather, upholstery and even mattress!) using natural organic cleaning products. 

For your info, most carpet cleaning products contain substances that are known to be irritants, toxins, or carcinogens. A big no-no if you ask me! This is one of the reasons why I am all for reviewing products which are natural and organic and does not contains toxic products which could harm my family and children's health.

We don't have any carpets in our house but we do have a rug in our children's playroom which they can walk and crawl and even lie down on the rug and I definitely would not want them to be exposed to these irritants, toxins, or carcinogens. I think this is a cool way to clean up a carpet (or rug for our case) while going green and staying natural and healthy at the same time.

How do you clean your carpet (or rugs)?

** Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. All thoughts, opinions and words are 100 % my own.

Today, I received a cute little red bag filled with some Huggies Dry Pants samples for my review and I've gotta say this seems like a fun idea as I'd love to see how it works on my girl.

Description from the product page:
"Huggies Dry Pants is an easy-to-use option for active infants and toddlers – just try it and you’ll see how easy changing can be when all you need to do is just pull them up, tear and go! With its soft stretch sides to provide better comfort and help prevent red marks even when your baby is on the move and a quick lock system to help stop leaks, Huggies is Malaysia’s first brand of disposable diapers which is clinically proven to help prevent diaper rash!"

Now, my almost 4 years old boy is definitely won't be trying this out (fully potty trained yay!) but yeah, I'd love to see how this works for my 1.5 year old girl.

I do remember trying a diaper pant of another brand some time ago on my boy while we were out grocery shopping. I was pushing a trolley load of groceries when my boy suddenly said he need to poo. He was in the midst of his potty training progress, off diapers for peeing but whenever he wants to poo (ESPECIALLY in public) he insists on wearing a diaper to do his business in it. So yeah, that particular ocassion, my boy told me he MUST wear a diaper NOW because he needs to poo NOW, NOW, NOW.

Of course, I do need to look for a secluded place in the supermarket and quickly put a diaper on for my boy! My point is, at that critical situation when I really have not much time to spare to search for a baby room (not to mention lugging my trolley load of groceries) I feel it is a good option to use a diaper pants for this situation.

Just get my boy to stand still, slip the diaper pants on and wear back his pants, let him do his business and then look for a wash room to clean him up after he's done. I do tried this method with normal pants but it's a wee bit tougher as I have to practically hold the diaper still while I velcroed them together. Diaper pants just eliminate a few more tough tasks of using normal diapers hahaha...

Anyway, back to Huggies Dry Pants, yup, trying it on my girl this time. She has never been using any diaper pants so this will be her first time in it. She slips it on easily as how she would wear her leggings or pants and the material is soft and comfy, the elastic part is not too tight and it holds the diaper pants easily. My girl goes on to her ninja activities, walking and climbing all over wearing the diaper pants.

Changing the diaper pants is very easy! Unlike the previous diaper pants (another brand) that I tried on my boy last time which I had to take it out as how you would need to take off a pants, the Huggies Dry Pants is very very easy to take off! As how us Malaysians say it, it is as easy as “Koyak, Salin & Lepas” (in English, it means "Tear, Wear, Release"), tear off the seams at the sides of the diaper pants, wear a new diaper on and release your child. Easy peasy! But I think I am used to using the velcro ones as I always like to velcro back the tabs to the diapers before disposing the diaper, so when I unconsciously tried to velcro the Huggies Dry Pants, I realised oopss.. no velcro...

Anyway, I'll continue letting my girl try out the Huggies Dry Pants and see how we go along on this. In summary, so far so good. What a change for better convenience!

For more information on Huggies, log on www.facebook.com/HuggiesMalaysia

You can also request for a Huggies Dry Pants sample at http://www.huggies.com.my/huggies-community/request-a-sample.aspx

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products 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.

Last year, I have a wonderful opportunity to review the "Feed The Animals" app and this time, I get to review the latest app which is a fun and educational app called "Alex The Handyman". Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Alex The Handyman
* Price: $1.99
* Category: Games
* Released: Feb 22, 2013
* Version: 1.0
* Size: 106 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Anshu Dhanuka
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"The Bear family is having a number of household repair work jobs such as a leaky tap, broken fence, unfinished brick wall and many more. They have called the talented 'Alex The Handyman' to fix these issues for them. Can you help Alex carry out these jobs so that the Bear family can live in peace. Explore the house to view the different rooms. All the rooms have different jobs to be done. Select the right tool for a particular job from the toolbox and learn how a tool operates and sounds."

* I love the illustrations of this app, it is very cute and pleasing to the eyes.

* This is a fun app where you get to figure out what are the appropriate tools to use to fix a household problems! Some of the easy ones such as fire extinguishers and screwdriver are easily solved by my almost 4 years old. The tougher ones such as the hammer and pliers are a bit difficult for my boy as he has never seen any of us in the house using the tools (we try not to use these tools when they are around for their safety actually)

* I like that there is opportunity to educate and remind my kids that these are the tools that we can use to solve and repair something, instead of just throwing away a household item or buying a new one, I'd love to teach my children that we should try to salvage the broken/spoiled objects first before resorting to throwing/buying new one.

* I also like that some of the tasks shown in the app can be related to what we do on almost daily basis such as watering the plants.

* However I feel some of the tasks such as the wire fixing is a bit too tough to do, even for myself. We had to practically try a few times in order to get the wires fixed (joined back) and then using the tape to wrap the wires back.

* In summary, this is a fun app, educational at the same time which I think is good to have. Teaches your child to appreciate your household items and belongings and to salvage and repair first instead of discarding and buying a new one to replace at the first sight of it being broken or spoiled.

You can purchase the "Alex The Handyman " 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"