Monthly Archives: January 2009

Book, Toys

Thank you Laugh Friendly

Eva and the Moonman

Before Christmas I received a package from Elena from Laugh Friendly. Laugh Friendly is the company that publishes the Nana Star series of books. Well, they also have stuffed characters as well. The package I received was of The Oh-So-Very Pretty Nana Star Doll and the Moonman Lovey. The package had a note just letting me know that these toys were for me and no review or anything was needed. I contacted Elena from Laugh Friendly to let her know that we would be wrapping up these gifts and giving them to Eva for Christmas. We knew the grandparents were going to spoil Eva so we decided to do one big gift (The Laugh and Learn: Musical Learning Chair) and also give Eva these two toys.

Eva and Nana Star

Eva loves her Nana Star and Moonman toys. She has Moonman in her bed and loves to hug him and she takes Nana Star all around the house. Eva is not quite old enough to understand the Nana Star stories and so she is not role playing with the toys yet but she does enjoy them anyway.

If you are interested in learning more about Nana Star, the Moonman and Elizabeth Owens, the woman who created the Nana Star character please read my past posts.

Photo-A-Day

Visit to La Salette

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Visit to La Salette
Photo-A-Day #1365

Allison and I have lived in our home for quite a few years and every Christmas season I say that we should go to La Salette to look at the Christmas lights. La Salette is a shrine and they have this wonderful outdoor light display that starts on Thanksgiving and ends on Epiphany. This year we finally went. We bundled up Eva and took her to see all the lights. I took my camera and tripod to try some outdoor low light photos.

When I was very young I lived on the same street as the La Salette Shrine. I remember winters where I was watching the long line of cars go by the house on the nights when the lights were on. At that time there were no malls to speak of, no other entertainment really, so the place was always packed. It is funny remembering the place. I hadn’t been since High School. Your younger self remembers how big it was and your older self now sees that it wasn’t that big at all. You can walk around in an hour or so. I used to think that we were there forever, maybe because we were cold and there were so many people and we had to read all the signs. I am looking forward to Eva growing up and us having a tradition of going to La Salette for the lights and then dinner at Bliss Bros Dairy afterward.

Bliss Bros. Dairy was located diagonally across from our house and I always loved going there for ice cream. Tonight we started our tradition of going to La Salette and then to Bliss. Eva was, of course, a little charmer and she had little boys come up and wave to her. I am in for many sleepless nights as she gets older. I took a few photos of our walk around La Salette, they even added a carousel and fried dough. We didn’t get that but we did make sure we got hot chocolate and hot cider, not in the light up La Salette mug though. That was kind of tacky and I never ever, ever need a mug again in my life! We have way too many so note to all, no mugs, ever. Here are my photos tagged with La Salette on Flickr.