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I received an email from Jimmy asking whether I would be interested to review this app as they are hoping I would be able to review and share about this app to other parents in the world. And to be honest, I am sort of a pop-up book fan, so, seeing these few words on the title of the app, of course I would be crazy not to review it! Anyway, my review based on the English version is as below... 

* Title: Today Is a Holiday ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book
* Price: $1.99
* Category: Books
* Updated: Feb 22, 2012
* Version: 1.5
* Size: 50.7 MB
* Language: English, Chinese
* Seller: ZHONG MING
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later

Description from the product page:

"Why the animals want a holiday? And they also want the pocket money? Mr.Hogan's animals are on strike. It's so noisy on the Happy Farm.What's happening to these clever and quick-witted animals on the holiday? Simulative 3D structures, interactive experience, lively pictures and funny plots, the lovely animals interpret a amazing story with their different experience. "

What's good?

* The app comes in 2 languages: English and Chinese (FYI we are reviewing the English version)

* It is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and there are animations on some of the objects we touched!

* I like the storyline where the animals decided to take their time off and go on holiday as well!

*  Ben also likes the animation and being able to flip through the pages and seeing the pop-up animation as the pages were slowly being flipped. Awesome!

Room for Improvement?

* Nothing I could think of, except maybe the price should be lower to attract more buyers?

You can purchase the "Today Is a Holiday ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book" 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"

Was just thinking about this the other day...

Let me know if you agree...

• When you got married and do not have children yet, people will ask you 'When is the little one coming along?'

• When you have one child, people will ask you 'So when is the next one coming along? Don't you think your child is being lonely? You should give him/her a baby sister/brother!' or 'Don't leave a big gap in between your kids!'
  

• When you have two child and both are boys or both are girls, people will ask you 'Don't you want to try for another girl or boy?'

• When you have two child and you have 1 boy and 1 girl, people will ask you 'Why don't you try for another one, let them have their own brother and sister to play with?' (so you end up having to try for yet another boy AND girl so that both your kids can have their 'playmates'!

• When you have four and above child (regardless how many boys or girls), people will ask you 'Whoa... so many, how can you handle them?!'

As for me, one boy and one girl, yet, we get a lot of statements like 'Very good! You can close 'shop' now, 1 boy, 1 girl!'

No offense, I don't know why, I just don't feel right hearing these statements. I mean, if God meant for us to have more kids, fine, it's not up to us to decide to ermm... close shop, you know?

So really... there's no magic number in having children. No matter one, two, three, four or more, people will always have something to say. What do you think?

I came across this wonderful product while I was surfing around the Net looking for pictures on potty training (I was in the midst of writing up a blog post about Ben's potty training) and immediately decided to ask whether they are OK with international bloggers, and my oh my, they are happy to provide me a product of my choice from their website for my review!  So here goes my review for the "Potty Target - 12 Pack":

Description from the product page:
"Our goal at PottyTarget.com is to make the world cleaner one bathroom at a time. This simple product helps kids to go where they are supposed to and creates laughs along the way. Give them something to aim for and you will be amazed by the results. "

I requested for the Potty Target 12 packs for my review. It has 3 of each: Boat, Duck, Tree, and Target Decals. The stickers came with an easy to understand and follow instructions to apply the stickers.

The designs are cute and eye catching.  

At the moment, Ben is still using potty and has yet to migrate over to using toilet seat. I am not in a hurry to rush this process as I am trying to train him to hold his pee longer and in the meantime, look out for a suitable and sturdy step stool so that he could stand on it when we decide to let him try peeing into the toilet seat.

So this review is based on the application of the decals on Ben's plastic potty. Ben immediately chooses the Target design (maybe because he likes red?) and he is excited with the idea of trying to pee to hit the target sticker!

On a few occasion, I caught him peeing into his potty and trying to aim hard at the Target sticker. Normally he pees into the potty and look elsewhere. So far there has been very minimal incidents of him accidently splashes out some minor trickles but I think the idea of a sticker in his potty for him to practise his aim is good!

I will be keeping the rest of the sticker and try it out on our toilet seat when we are ready for him to use the toilet seat later.

You can get these stickers at Potty Target's website.

I am so excited to be able to hold this giveaway for my lucky blog followers and readers! FIVE of you lucky people are going to win this awesome product! You will absolutely love it! Now, let's read below for the giveaway terms and conditions OK?

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the product by Potty Target 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.