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Vicks ComfortFlex Digital Thermometer with Fever InSight Feature

 This is my very first Video review.  I’m sick as can be and thought it’d be a great time to check for fever.  Figuring you’d want to see how it works with a child, I also used it on the baby.  He’s been teething pretty bad and has had a stuffy nose for a few days, so when I read that he indeed had a mild fever, I have him some infant Tylenol.  I’m grateful I brought the Vicks ComfortFlex Digital Thermometer with Fever InSight Feature with me on my trip.  It’s lightweight, compact and really has been useful.  This weather up here is total crap and we’re all miserable because of it.  This has proven accurate and very helpful.  You can purchase the Vicks ComfortFlex Digital Thermometer with Fever InSight Feature  at most grocery/drug stores and it retails for about $9.48.

Please note, after watching this back I realized how stupid saying ‘I have less than a fever’ sounded, but I can only assume you know what I  meant. I was thinking ‘less than Normal’, yet those words didn’t come out.  I’m delierious with exhaustion and have been at my Mom’s in Upstate NY for 2 weeks, with a week to go. 

From the Vicks Website-

Fever InSight helps you to better understand the meaning of your child’s temperature with color indicated on the display. The screen displays green if no fever, yellow when the temperature is slightly elevated and a red fever alert.

• Faster readings; in as fast as eight seconds
• ComfortFlex tip makes temperature taking more comfortable.
• Professional accuracy
• Fever InSight large backlit display changes color to indicate temperature level.
• Oral, rectal, or underarm use
• Memory feature recalls and displays last temperature taken.
• Waterproof for easy, more thorough cleaning
• Automatic shutoff to help extend battery life
• Probe covers and storage case included
• Lifetime warranty under normal use and battery replacement

I am a modern Mother.  A mom of today.  A wife of a software engineer with a love for all things electronic.  With two boys, there is a multitude of toys and electronics throughout my home.

I have a pretty small family.  Lots of extended family, but as far as kids go, my 2 boys are it on both sides of immediate family.  The youngest of 4, the only sibling I have with a child is my older sister and her son (my nephew) is about to turn 20.

My husband is the older of 2 and his sister doesn’t have children.  Needless to say, my kids are SPOILED ROTTEN.  Not by us, which you could tell if you took a look at any of my posts from the Mom Dot Christmas of Dreams Party.  I don’t need to buy gifts for my kids, I can barely keep up with paying for the batteries required to operate them!

Too often, the batteries cost more than (or equal to) the toy itself.  With Swings, cars, trains, musical instruments..the list goes on.  If we want to run one toy, we’ll sometimes have to pull the batteries out of another just to get it running!

I was recently given the opportunity to put some batteries to the test.  Rayovac is confident in their products, and want consumers to be able to focus more on enjoying the product they purchased than worrying about battery cost and life. (more…)

Wondering what to get your child for Christmas?  Think about heading over to Target and checking out the line of toys brought to you by Parents Magazine.  The philosophy at Parents is ‘When the toy does less. the child does more’ and I couldn’t agree more.

My kids are the only in the family right now.  They are therefore overloaded with toys.  We have toys that beep, move and hurl objects.  Blasters, computers, a full size arcade Basketball set.  My boys have it all.  What are their favorites? (more…)

I was sitting with my son Jake playing Pokémon Ranger the other day when I realized that most of our games we play are of the Pokémon series.  A few months back, I spoke with Nintendo’s resident Pokémon expert, Seth McMahill and we talked about the benefits of playing the role playing games with our children.  You can read more about our conversation here and since our conversation, have experienced some of the games available for the Wii and DS Lite.

When we’re on the go (especially when we’re flying to NY) and I need to keep Jake occupied, I always bring Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time.  Since Jake is only 3 and can’t exactly read, the Pokémon series are games we can play together and encourage reading and creativity. (more…)