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Free Shipping in June From Safety 1st, Cosco Juvenile and Eddie Bauer

Safety 1st Alpha Omega Elite Convertible Car Seat

Are you looking for an affordable car seat, stroller or other baby gear? Want to save even more and get free shipping? All month long Safety 1st, Cosco Juvenile and Eddie Bauer are offering free shipping when you order directly from their websites.

Here’s a sampling of some of their best products that you might want to scoop up:

• Safety 1st Alpha Omega Elite Convertible Car Seat ($160) – An extremely high-rated car seat for kids 5-100 lbs. It rear-faces from 5-35 lbs, forward-faces from 22-40 lbs and goes into a belt-positioning booster for kids 40-100 lbs. The QuickFit Harness System doesn’t require re-threading which makes it soooo much easier to adjust as your child grows. Its three-position recline adjusts with one hand, plus has pivoting armrests and a removable cup holder.

• Eddie Bauer Newport Collection Wood High Chair ($130) – An incredible deal for a full-featured and stylish wooden high chair. It doesn’t recline but I don’t know of any wood high chairs that do. Rear storage holds bibs, baby good jars and utensils. Dishwasher-safe insert tray. Four-position tray with one-hand release.
• Cosco Scenera Convertible Car Seat in Triton ($60) – Great for travel, in Daddy’s car or wherever. It rear-faces from 5-35 lbs, forward-faces from 22-40 lbs with four different harness locations accommodate a growing child. The five-point harness has up-front adjustment which isn’t always available in lower priced car seats, plus a removable cup holder.
• Cosco Comfort Ride Plus Stroller ($35) – A fantastic bargain for a simple reclineable stroller with generous storage. It has a parent tray with two cup holders and storage compartment and a child tray with cup holder. Adjustable large canopy. Two-position recline. Front swivel wheels.
• Safety 1st Sit Snack & Go 5 Mode Booster Seat ($20) – Whether you use it at home, on-the-go or at Grandma’s, a fab booster that has five modes to accommodate a growing child and folds for easy travel and storage.

– Danielle

Calafant Palace: A Cardboard Castle Fit for a Real Princess

Everyone knows that a kid’s favorite toy is a big, cardboard box. Our trip to Toy Fair showed that several companies are taking the concept farther and designing elaborate, chic and cool cardboard toys. They ship flat (in more cardboard!), they’re made from recycled materials and the prices range from $7-77. We know that any parent with a refrigerator box and a pair of scissors can become a hero in four minutes flat, but when we see a trend we have to tell you about it!

Calafant’s palace ($25)  is the most complicated cardboard toy we reviewed, but the result is a really detailed palace with turrets, windows and a working drawbridge! It’s 18″ tall and came in 13 pieces, and it took one capable adult and one impatient child 25 minutes to build. It wasn’t difficult because the instructions have pretty good photos, though it would help if the pieces were numbered so I could see which one was pictured.

The palace was designed by German cartoonist Boris Schimanski, who started building cardboard toys to entertain his own children. His ingenious designs have cutaways that fold down to make floors for doll-house-style play, plus they make the structure much stronger. If you’re put off by spending a ton on cardboard, consider one of their small toys, like the $7 dinosaur that comes with six markers for decorating. I like the castle so much that I plan to buy one for a birthday gift for my son’s friend, who insists she is an actual princess.

– Kristen

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