Win Zippity from Leap Frog
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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Get your preschooler moving and grooving in the New Year with Zippity from Leap Frog. The interactive unit includes a bopper and mat that will have your kids stomping, swinging and marching with their favorite Playhouse Disney characters. One lucky family will win the Zippity, which retails for $79.95 and is recommended for kids 3 to 5 years. For more information, visit LeapFrog.com.
To win, tell us how your family plans to celebrate the New Year.
Congratulations to our winner: Ann.
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New Year's 2010By Aracely Carrillo on Friday, November 11, 2011 Our family's tradition is to celebrate New Year's at my sister's house. We eat different types of ethnic foods such as Mexican Tamales, Italian beef and sausage, shrimp cocktail, Puerto Rican rice and tons of desserts. We sitting around and chat, watch movies and watch New York's count down at midnight. We toast on champagne and ring in the New Year eating our 12 grapes (representing one grape per month for good luck), the kids toast with Welchs' Sparkling apple cider. We hug each other, cry and laugh. Then we sit around eating seconds until one by one family member starts leaving or falling asleep where ever they are sitting. Fun times! Happy New Year 2010!!!! Happy New Year 2010. |
ZippityBy Natalie on Friday, November 11, 2011 Our family celebrated a cozy New Year's eve with just us. We made crab legs for dinner and watched movies we rented. At 9pm we watched Dick Clark's New Year's special. The kids didn't quite make it to midnight, but it was a very special evening none the less. Happy 2010! |
ZippityBy Eve M. on Friday, November 11, 2011 We celebrated the New Year with a simple dinner with my sister and her family. My husband and my kids stayed up till midnight. |
ZippityBy Jen D. on Friday, November 11, 2011 My little guys won't be up for the Eve part, but New Year's day we watch the Rose parade and hang out! |
2010By gina early on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year we got together w/neighbors and played good old fashioned board games til midnight and then went outside to make some noise! |
2010By Sean Anthony on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year we celebrated with a family dinner and sparkling juice for the little ones. Nobody stayed up until midnight, even mom and dad fell asleep early. A good night's sleep to start the year off right. |
Happy New YearBy Gina Z on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year my son and his three cousins will ring in the new year by making homemade pizza and a special new years cake. Then we end the night with a champagne toast(sparkling grape juice of course) and a sleep over. |
New Years 2010By Mary B on Friday, November 11, 2011 We celebrated the new year by taking my son and his cousins to Pump It Up for a fun filled afternoon of bouncing, jumping and sliding. To end the afternoon we had a mock countdown with party hats, noise makers and a toast with sparking grape juice. The kids had a great time!!! |
First time celebrating with kidsBy Rosa Canon on Friday, November 11, 2011 It's been 5 years since we've stayed up to ring in the new year. I have a 2 & 4 year old, and it's difficult to keep everyone up. This year, we went to a family party where plenty of kids and music helped my kids stay up. They had a great time playing instruments and dancing. It was unforgettable. |
Win Zippity from Leap FrogBy Dulce Bautista on Friday, November 11, 2011 Movie and family slumber party in the family room |
Win Zippity from Leap FrogBy Karen Donovan on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are spending new years with family - playing cards and trying to stay up till midnight! It gets harder every year! |
celebrating the new yearBy tanya on Friday, November 11, 2011 we will watch movies, play games, eat pizza, and toast the new year with sparkling grape juice which has become a tradition for us! spending time with family and loves ones is the best way to start the new year off right! |
New Years plansBy melanie on Friday, November 11, 2011 we stay home, party and watch the ball drop :) |
2010By Jamie Connell on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year we are having some family over and staying home to celebrate the New Year. The kids are super excited that they get to stay up late and bang on pots and pans! |
virtual fireworksBy heidi bellm on Friday, November 11, 2011 Thinking out of the box & and inspired by daughter's appreciation for the simple things, I will be surprising my 3 yr old girl with fireworks in her own room - projecting fireworks on her bedroom ceiling using our laptop & projector. Should be fun! Have a wonderful new year! |
happy 2010!By Carol on Friday, November 11, 2011 my daughters are too young to stay up till midnight, but we'll be spending time as a family during the day playing games and visiting inlaws. happy new year! |
New YearsBy Miguel on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will try and stay up as late as we can playing board games to watch the New Years celebrations on T.V. |
new year's eveBy Lani on Friday, November 11, 2011 Dinner with friends,...kids are still too young (3 and 1) to stay up until midnight. |
Have a Zippity 2010!By Maria Dripps-Paulson on Friday, November 11, 2011 To celebrate the New Year, we will be enjoying the Holiday Lights at the Brookfield Zoo on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Day, we will enjoying time at home with our family, playing games adn watching football! |
2010By carina to on Friday, November 11, 2011 We stay home with our in-laws, have dinner together, play a movie and play Bingo (",) |
2010By carina to on Friday, November 11, 2011 We stay home with our in-laws, have dinner together, play a movie and play Bingo (",) |
missBy stacey smith on Friday, November 11, 2011 Me and my son are going to spend much needed time together once I get off of work on new years eve. We will try to have a imprompto new years eve celebration, i will make some of my famous chilli, make chilli dogs and i'll make some other snacks and defintely make black eyes peas to ring in the new year's and make our fizzy juice we love to make. |
New Years!By Heather H. on Friday, November 11, 2011 We always get together with my dad. We usually go out to dinner. Then play the Wii and eat ice cream until midnight. And the kids are so excited that they get to stay up so late! |
Plans for New YearsBy Kari Domiter on Friday, November 11, 2011 My family will be together at home for New Years. I am planning on making a nice dinner and my 3 year old loves to help. Also, we will be making some kid friendly snacks for her and her little sister that she will enjoy doing. Every year, I always watch the ball drop from NYC. This year will be no different as it's tradition. On New Years day, will visit family and have a nice family dinner and enjoy and be grateful we're here for the new year. Happy New Year Everyone!!! :o) |
Grateful for a New Year!By Amy Sullivan on Friday, November 11, 2011 I had an old friend say that whatever you do on New Year's sets the tone of the whole year. It'll be all about family, most of which is far away and being grateful. We'll be looking at pictures of our family and talking about all of them and how much fun we had playing in the leaves with them in the fall, all good times and how lucky we are in so many, many ways. I bought HUGE paper for them to color on and to make a drawing of the family (in their rendition) to send to Grandma and Grandpa, so just plan on making it a relaxing, fun and grateful day (and work in some chocolate in there somewhere). Happy New Year to all!! |
How My Family Celebrate the New YearBy Yolanda Wright on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year will be the same as every Year! We will meet at our Mom's house to eat whatever she has decided to cook. After we start the New Year together some will spend the night others will go on to other plans. No matter what we start the New Year out together. |
New Years EveBy Luann Lytell on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will be going to church. Then spend a nice relaxing time at home. The kids are too little to stay up til midnight, but we'll let them stay up later than normal. |
Busy, Busy, BusyBy Randi on Friday, November 11, 2011 Our goal this year is to keep our 3 children (6; 5; and 2) as busy as possible. Why you may ask?? We need to completely and physically wear them out so that my husband and I can actually have a few hours of "alone time". We will begin the day going to Play Zone and have them jump, bounce, bop up and down, slide and other acrobatic stunts together. They love spending time together, and luckily, for at least one morning in our home there will be NO jumping, bouncing, bopping up and down and other acrobatic stunts!! :) We will then go to a Loyola University basketball game. They enjoy watching the game, but I think the prefer eating the popcorn and pretzels, all while jumping and running up/down and all around the bleachers! Finally, again as a family, head out to an early- kid friendly NYE party. Once that is finally over, we will put the kiddies to bed, and my husband and I will sit down and have a nice glass of wine and toast in the New Year. The best part of the day was the family time we all had, but the second best was having a glass of wine, uninterrupted! Like every year before, we will make every attempt to see the ball drop at midnight, but like every year before... we will be asleep by 9:00pm. That is okay with us!! |
New Year's EveBy Machelle Anderson on Friday, November 11, 2011 We always buy "wine" and "champagne" for everyone (sparkling grape juice and sparkling white grape juice). We put on hats and count down with a champagne toast. The kids always love it. |
no sour grapes PLEASE!By Ann on Friday, November 11, 2011 we all help make a big dinner. We eat around 10:00PM ( I know it is not good for all of us dieters). Then at midnight, we all get 12 grapes. we go around in a circle, and say 1 thing we are thankful for. After your turn, you can eat your grape. you do that 12 times. Usually one of the kids say that they are thankful for NO SOUR GRAPES. It is a fun night |
Pizza for New YearsBy Allyson Z on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are taking the kids to Lou Malnati's at 4pm for a "mock count down, champaign toast" and balloon drop. Then when the kids are in bed by 8:30 my husband and I plan on enjoying time alone to ring in the new year! |
New Years 2009By Cher on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are actually just having my parents over and will play board games and watch kids movies. And eat! My boys are 3 and 2 so they don't know any different. |
New YearsBy Angie Biery on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will be celebrating with our family. Lots of food and fun! |
"New Years"By Mary-Ann Petraitis on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will be celebrating our new year's early with our neighbors and their children. I am from South Africa, so it is always fun watching other countries celebrate the new year and then celebrating it ourselves in Chicago. |
NEW YEARS!By Jeralyn Millan-Traan on Friday, November 11, 2011 We cant wait! My parents are getting older. Its only me and my girls and we go to Lola and Lolo's house to celebrate to be with them. My girls get to see their grandparents and I get to be with them for as long as they are on this earth. We eat the scrumptious lunch and dinner for the day. We have the TV on to watch the NY shows - mostly musical artists singing and dancing, cuz we are dancing along with them. We all have our hats and noisemakers on and I see if my girls can make it to midnight. It is just a great time to be together with family as well as other days in the upcoming year. |
New Years celebrationBy Mary M on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will be taking the kids to mass at Holy Name Cathedral and then dinner in Chinatown. Happy New Year!!! |
ZippityBy Mike on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are going to have 30+ adults in our house not including the kids. Everyone is going to bring some contests and games. At the end, we will put up the scripted ad-lib show. There will be fun. |
New YearsBy Jenny Foster on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will ring in the new year with a movie marathon, lots of good snacks, party hats and party blowers. |
Zippity from Leap FrogBy John Gould on Friday, November 11, 2011 My wife teaches preschool aged children every day. This would be so much fun to have around for the little ones to play with! |
New Years CelebrationBy Jeff Rogers on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year we are hosting a big turkey Linner [Lunch/Dinner] with Grandma and the neighbors joining us. Towards the evening we will make an assortment of appetizers to munch on for the night, as the kids and daring adults test their talents singing karaoke and playing our new RockBand game from Santa for the first time. After celebrating the count down and ball dropping in Time Square it’s off to bed with hopes the New Year will be a little better for everyone. |
Fun with FriendsBy Bill S on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will be spending the evening wih our new friends who graciously welcomed us to Chicago this year. |
New Year's CelebrationBy Joanne L on Friday, November 11, 2011 We always ring in the new year wishing my oldest grandson a Happy Birthday! He was a milenium baby so he will be 10! |
New Years EarlyBy Tia Angelos on Friday, November 11, 2011 We're celebrating by heading to Navy Pier's Winter Wonderland to see the 'early' fireworks at 7, then heading home to cook as a family. Our 4 year old is our energetic little chef and will help bake our traditional Greek New Year's cake for morning as well. |
Win Zippity from Leap FrogBy Julie Tremberth on Friday, November 11, 2011 We will stay home with family, eat appetizers, drink sparkling grape juice, play games, and watch the count down on tv. At 12 AM, the kids can go outside and bang really loud on the pots and pans with wooden spoons. They love that part the best! |
Sweet prizeBy Lucia on Friday, November 11, 2011 Well, unfortunately, Dad, the fireman, is working NYE...so, Anthony (1yo) and I will head to grandma's. We'll probably watch movies and fall asleep before the new year rolls in! |
Celebrating New Year'sBy Linda Tyson on Friday, November 11, 2011 My husband, my daughter and myself celebrate new year by staying home and watching a good movie and toast the new year in with sparkling grape juice and watch the count down on tv. |
New YearsBy Denise Cunningham on Friday, November 11, 2011 This year we will have a kids' countdown around 8:00 with the neighbors, and then toast on our own. A quiet evening together is always important. Wishing everybody a happy healthy New Year! |
New Year'sBy Rachel Salomon on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are staying in. We have several little ones. The bigger kids stay up till midnight. We will be playing wii, drinking root beer floats and non-alcoholic pina coladas. Gramdpa is visiting from Puerto Rico. I'm pretty sure we'll have the fireplace going. Happy New Year!!!! |
New YearsBy Vicki Beauchamp on Friday, November 11, 2011 All my kids are too young to stay up until Midnight and I don't think they would even understand the significance of starting a new year. My husband and I will probably have a couple drinks and relax together. The next day is FOOTBALL! :) |
How to celebrateBy Elaine Luther on Friday, November 11, 2011 We're pretty boring. Movie and popcorn! |
New Years Celebrations!By Lynn Prehm on Friday, November 11, 2011 New Years eve - Snow White and then Midnight go in backyard and watch neighbors fireworks New Years Day with Family being thankful for a heathly and safe 2009 and hopeful for a GREAT 2010! |
MRSBy Sue Gill on Friday, November 11, 2011 We are celebrating with family and friend but doing out own make shift hotel party. The kids get to swim and the adults get to socialized. Everyone has a good time waiting for midnight. |
2010
By Jan Dorrance on Friday, November 11, 2011
We celebrated with another family of boys. Party poppers at midnight!