More dinosaurs for the win!

Remember my last post about how much of a hit the T-Rex earrings were? Well, they were. So much so that when they asked if I was interested in reviewing another set of earrings at a discount in exchange for my honest review, I jumped on it!  We got these cute Apatosaurus earrings in the mail this week and she spent no time wanting to try them on too. My son was excited to see them because this dinosaur was featured in the new Jurassic World movie.

I love their cute long necks and their little tails!  It didn't take long though for us to decide another cute way to wear them would be to mix-and-match them - T-Rex and Apatosaurus. My son says it looks like the T-Rex is chasing the Apatosaurus to attack him.  It started a conversation whether the T-Rex and the Apatosaurus lived in the same time period.  (They didn't - they were separated by 83 million years.  Homo sapiens are closer to the T-Rex on a timeline than T-Rex is to the Apatosaurus.  That doesn't stop it from being fun though!)

As much as I loved the T-Rex ones, I think these Apatosaurus ones may be my favorites. I love the color and I love the way they look on my ears.  (Yes, I made her let me try them on this time!)

Rawr! There's a T-Rex on the loose!

So I'm a bit of a science geek.  Maybe more than a bit of a science geek.  I'm an equal opportunity science geek too. Physical science, Biology, Chemistry...I love it all.  When I saw these adorable T-Rex earrings, I knew I had to have them.

Amazon Prime had them at my door in two days or less and I was super excited to open them up.  My excitement might have been a little bit contagious though since my youngest came running when I opened up the box they came in.  As soon as she saw the pretty white box, she claimed them as a gift for herself.

They're shiny and smooth and not too heavy.  I don't have to worry about them pulling down her ears and being uncomfortable.  The best thing about these earrings is that she's worn them for two weeks - day and night - and they still look just as cute as they did straight out of the box.  The "Rawr!" I hear every time I ask her if she still likes the earrings is pretty awesome too, I must admit.

I love that they're encouraging her to love science and be proud to show it. I might just have to order another pair.

Note: I received these earrings at a discount in exchange for an honest review.

When it rains, it pours

Imagine the following, if you will ....

It's raining. Not that nice, gentle, soul-filling rain.  I'm talking the rain so hard you can barely see your neighbor's house across the street.  Where you end up looking like a drowned rat.  And, because it's Texas, you can throw in some wind gusts of 30-40 mph just for good measure.  

Do you have that mental image now? I can't tell you how many times this has played out in my life.  Throw in an umbrella that flips inside out and some fighting with it - in the rain, of course, - and it's easy to see why I hate rain.  Or why I have sworn off umbrellas and usually just run through the rain, arriving at my destination soaked.

I was dubious when I was offered an umbrella to try in exchange for an honest review of it.  Here it is right after it arrived.

I fully expected to have another broken umbrella and move on with life.  It hasn't rain since I've received it yet, but I thought I had the perfect way to test this thing out without having the dreaded scene I described earlier.  See, Texas is known for wind and winter is filled with blustery days with high wind gusts.  I planned to wait until the next windy day, take it out, watch it break, and be done.

Isn't it pretty? And, because it's Texas, we have lush grass in January.

Imagine my surprise when it didn't break. I stood with it pointing to the sky.  I stood with it facing into the wind.  I even tried facing against the wind so it would blow up into the top of the umbrella.  It didn't break.  You can see how well built it's skeleton is here.

The icing on the proverbial cake and quite possibly even more my favorite part of this umbrella is that it opens with the push of a button.  Click the button, it pops up and open on its own instantly.  No fighting to get it open or clicked into place while you're getting rained on or a kid is pulling on your arm and whining about being wet.  Closing it is equally easy - push the same button and it collapses so all you have left to do is to close it.

Look how easy that is.  And that's was left-handed too. I'm sure doing it with my dominant hand would have been easier (and harder to video!).

If you'd like to get one and try it out for yourself, here's a link to do so (NOT an affiliate link). If you do try it out, I'd love to hear what you think of it too!

I only have one problem now: The kids love it as much as I do and have informed me that I'm going to have to buy one for each of them if I want to actually have one for myself.