Did you know a flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down? Weird, but true. We have a real fondness for our kids telling us crazy facts they’ve learned, and National Geographic Kids magazine provides them lots of fodder. Cool inventions, movie and book reviews, world records, globetrotting adventures, and incredible nuggets of animal trivia, this 10 issues a year mag is a veritable treasure trove for curious kids. Plus, subscriptions come by mail, and it seems to be one of those universal truths that all kids LOVE mail.

Fall has arrived, with its rust coloured leaves and pumpkin goodness. We have finally packed away all the shorts, sunhats and sundresses, and have brought out the sweaters, toques and tights. But just because we’ve bundled up our tots, doesn’t mean they have to stop looking fabulous. Here’s our head to toe list of a few of our favourite Canadian fall finds for the toddler set.

We’ve long been fans of Peekaboo Beans clothing. Our youngest is now happily wearing a thrice-handed down shirt, yet the colours and screened image are practically as sharp as the day it was purchased. Knowing how they well they wear, we were more than happy to put two new fall outfits to the test. Here’s what we tried:

Remember that wedding you thought you’d have to time to, a) exercise your butt off before so you could fit back in your little black dress, or b) buy the perfect outfit for? Well, the wedding is only two weeks away and both a) and b) didn’t quite pan out. Don’t fret – we have a solution for you busy mums who want to go higher fashion than yoga pants, and have zero time to do it in: Rent frock Repeat.

Now that we are only weeks away from the holiday displays coming out (yes, that holiday filled with snow and a man in a red suit), your shopping list probably isn’t far behind. And we know finding unique and from …

So Halloween is a big deal for kids, but it always seems a bit anti-climactic to us. Trick treating passes so quickly we’re left thinking; all this build up for that? And then we realized, it’s the journey, mama, it’s the journey. So our new strategy is to embrace the months of costume talk, the ghoulish jokes, the planning of the trick or treating route…we’re getting into the spirit (hee hee) of things early this year. So to start October off on a creepy note, here are some spooky reads:

We love learning through games. And we’re not even talking overtly educational games; games are just naturally packed, full-of-learning fun. Card, dice, and board games for 3-5 year-olds are generally about introducing basic skills: dice rolling; counting; colour, letter and …