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We are a big fan of Little Critter's apps and I think it is great to be able to review this app as I get to introduce shapes to our 2.5 years old girl and reinforce this for our 5 years old boy who is already learning this in his preK.

* Title: Little Critter Shapes
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Released: June 11, 2014
* Version: 2.6
* Size: 70 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+ Made for Ages 5 and Under
* Requirements: Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"Learn your shapes with Little Critter in this interactive board book app! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. Little Critter makes it fun and easy for toddlers to learn their shapes with colorful images of a shooting star, an oval train track, a crescent moon, and so much more." 

* This app is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* There is also a page where you can find the shapes though the OCD side of me preferred to have some sort of unique animation highlighting the different shapes we found and matched correctly so that our kiddos can looked back and see their selections and results.

* There are options to go to other shapes instead of going through one by one.

* I like that there is an option to use new narrator's voice (aka me!)

* Overall an educational and fun app for the kiddos!

You can purchase the "Little Critter Shapes" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

We are a big fan of Little Critter's apps and I think it is great to be able to review this app as I get to introduce ABCs to our 2.5 years old girl and reinforce this for our 5 years old boy who is already learning this in his preK.

* Title: Little Critter ABCs
* Price: $0.99
* Category: Books
* Released: May 14, 2014
* Version: 2.6
* Size: 94.8 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Oceanhouse Media, Inc.
* Rated: 4+ Made for Ages 5 and Under
* Requirements: Requires iOS 6.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"Learn your ABCs with Little Critter in this interactive board book app! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. From airplane to zebra and everything in between, kids will love the adorable illustrations that connect letters, words, and objects." 

* This app is engaging and interactive and I love that we can also touch the objects in each page on the screen and the words pop out to tell you what it is!

* There are options to go to other letters instead of going through one by one.

* I like that there is an option to use new narrator's voice (aka me!) as I get to add in new things like phonics which was not in this app. This app goes 'A (pronounced as eyyy) instead of pronouncing the phonics way.

* Overall an educational and fun app for the kiddos!

You can purchase the "Little Critter ABCs" app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

Few days ago, I was down with flu, joint pains and diarrhea and was just struggling to get through the day. I had about 4 hours in the morning with our 2 girls while our boy was in his preK. Turned on the TV, loaded up the old Disney shows (Thumbelina and Alice in Wonderland) for our 2.5 years old girl to watch while I rested and nursed our 7 months old girl. Called for food delivery for our lunch and hubby got home around 2pm. He took our older 2 kiddos to his eldest sister house for a few hours so I could rest properly and he even made me rice porridge for dinner.

My SIL Whatsapp us later with pictures of our boy sitting next to her youngest son (10 years old) happily watching him played Minecraft on his iPad, chatting and just having fun with his cousin. A while later she Whatsapp us again telling us the reason why our boy refuses to touch their iPad.

FYI, we've been cutting down the iPad usage for our kiddos, weekends for our 5 years old boy and the occasional use (not more than an hour a day) for our 2.5 years old girl. During the weekdays when Alyson is using the iPad, I told Benjamin that he can have a look but he is not to touch the iPad or use it. And I'm so glad he remembered this and is persistent enough to resist the temptations. I mean, I'm not sure how often you see a kiddo who is able to resist temptation of the things they like?

So yeah, that makes me a very proud mummy!

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