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I received an email asking whether I will be interested to review this app and because my 3 years old boy is getting really mischievious lately and I thought there might be something we can learn from this app, I agreed to review it. Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: Sneaky Sam
* Price: $2.99
* Category: Books
* Released: 10 August 2012
* Version: 1.0.1
* Size: 108 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Sneaky Sam Productions Pty Ltd
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Description from the product page:

"Follow fun loving Sam as he sneaks & tricks his way around, getting up to mischief with his little dog Max. Sam is a little boy who’s a bit cheeky, certainly sneaky, but at the end of the day is a good kid who wants to be loved. There’s a bit of Sam in everyone!

Ideal for pre-readers and young readers alike, Sneaky Sam is a superbly animated children’s story that’s full of surprises…the perfect digital storybook for the sneakiest of kids!"

What's good?

* This app comes with a story and also games which I find educational and fun as well. The story is about this little boy named Sam who is very sneaky and always up to something!

* The illustrations are quirky, colorful and cute!

* I used the opportunity in this story to educate my 3 years old boy to be thoughtful and well-mannered and not to be naughty like Sam.

* As for the games, I am amazed that my 3 years old boy get through the matching pairs game easily. Normally I have quite a bit of a time needed to explain to him and run through the game at least once with my boy in order for him to get the objective and try it out himself.

* The sticker game is fun too and being an avid fan of fire engines stuff, my 3 years old Ben immediately selected the fire engine sticker and 'paste' it all over the page! Screenshot below is his artwork! Hahaha!

You can purchase the "Sneaky Sam" 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"

My 3 years old boy has been keeping me very busy lately...

His latest milestone?

PRETEND PLAY.

I think my boy has a very good imagination and yes, few months before this he has already been showing us his imaginative side, pretending to be pirate, robot, Spiderman, fireman, and so on.

But lately, his pretend play includes his imaginary friends too. Okay, maybe I shouldn't call it imaginary as his friends joined in with us for tea, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Pictures taken below in our playroom where my boy busily arranged and set up the dining table and chairs along with his friends.

The middle part where the carton box (containing blocks of various shapes) is located are the main dishes we are having.

It's kinda cute to see my boy in his pretend play mode, though sometimes when I'm busy attending to my almost 1 year old girl, it gets annoying when my boy shoves one of his soft toys to me and said 'Mummy, hold this' or 'Eh mummy, play with me' or 'Hey mummy, come and drink/eat!' but oh well, I guess it's a privilege to be invited in this pretend play and to experience this while my kids are growing up huh?

So at what age your kid(s) start pretend play? Do share one of their cutest play with me!

This is my 1st attempt of making: HAM EGG TOAST MINI CUPS.

I am making this based on the original recipe and I excluded the following: bacon, cheese, salt and pepper. I replaced bacon with a slice of chicken ham, I totally forgot the cheese (Arghhh!!!) and I skipped the salt and pepper as I'm making this for my kids and want to skip the salt as much as I can. Also, instead of the original recipe which uses actual size muffin tray, I use my mini muffin tray because I only have 2 mini muffin trays, partly because I think it's cute to bake in small size and child bite size hahaha...

Btw, you can also substitute the bread with rice or spaghetti, well, that's my personal opinion, feel free to try and experiment!

PREPARATION TIME: ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

Ingredients / Tool Required:

REACTIONS FROM MY "GUINEA PIGS"

ME	"Need salt and pepper if I'm eating it next time!" and "Argh!!!! I forgot to put in the cheese!!!!!"
BEN	"Mmmm nice!"
HUBBY	"What is this?" (followed by weird look... bah, shall not let him try next time...)

So there you go.... my 1st HAM EGG TOAST MINI CUPS attempt!

I'm so angry with myself for totally forgetting the cheese! Arghhh!!!! Other than that, I'm pretty please with my alternative recipe hahaha... To view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

Brought to you by: Mama Baker wannabe aka

* I'm submitting this recipe to the Delicious Dish Tuesday recipe linky via Mama Chocolate