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This post will stay up on my main page until next Saturday so it is easy to find. Make sure to link straight to your giveaway.

Happy blog hopping and giveaway entering

Have you entered my giveaway for $200 Cash? If not, then make sure you do! It’s an easy entry- just follow on Google Friend Connect.

How would you like an extra entry into the contest? Today will be offering special bonus entry into the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour! In fact, we will be offering a few Bonus Entry days until the date the giveaway ends on August 9th. All will be easy entries- we promise!

Today (July 31) the bonus entry will be to follow the hosts on Twitter. You can get 1 entry for each host that you follow on Twitter.

For an extra entry on my blog, please follow me (@myweeview) on Twitter and leave a comment with your Twitter name on the $200 Follower Giveaway Post.

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS POST!!

Only 1 entry per person per blog host until 11:59 pm PST tonight (July 31) will count towards an entry for a total of 4 bonus entries.

After you have followed me on Twitter and left a comment with your Twitter name on the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour Post. Please visit each of the participating blogs and get 3 more entries:

• My Wee View
• Kelly’s Lucky You
• Little Yayas

One thing that is absolutely necessary during the summer months is spending time at a cottage.  Unfortunately, my husband and I don’t have a cottage to bring our family to.  However, there is still a way for my daughter to get that cottage feeling with the Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage from Step2 that I received for review.  Step2 has amazing play structures, toys and houses for kids ages 0 – 7!

When the Step2 Cottage arrived in the mail, I had my husband put it together that evening.  My mother-in-law was visiting so the two of them put the whole cottage together in less than 20 minutes.  I will suggest getting an electric drill to put it together or you could be there for days twisting all the screws in.  The cordless drill made the process way easier.

This is one amazing and fun place for the kids to hang out.  My next door neighbour babysits 6 kids nearly everyday (how does she do it?!?).   I am lucky enough to have my Mom take care of Genevieve and she takes her outside to play with the neighbour kids every day that it’s nice.  All the kids amalgamate over at my house and play house in the Step2 Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage.  The kids are ages 1.5 – 4 years, and they all love it.

Inside the cottage there is a fireplace and a bookshelf (not functional), a little sink with a faucet that swivels, a stove with a little clicking knob, a mail slot and a flower pot (which I haven’t put any flowers in, Genevieve and my husband use this as ball target practice ).  The kids favourite accessories of the Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage are the doorbell and the cordless phone.  Both of these accessories have batteries (not included) and make noises just like a real doorbell and phone.  The kids hold the phone on their ear and walk around pressing the buttons and talking just like grownups would on the phone.  They also ring the doorbell at the front door (which is also functional) and open and close the door.  The cottage is also tall enough for all the kids to stand in without having to bend over (it’s 54″ tall).

It’s so nice to see all the kids play make believe and pretend.  It’s obvious that they are having lots of fun, and are learning at the same time (how wonderful).  They don’t all fit inside at once, but they take their turns playing make believe with all the functions that the cottage has to offer.

The Step2 Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage has stood up to 7 kids playing and banging it around as well as the blistering heat and a few torrential down pours.  It is still in excellent condition.   This cottage is a huge hit with all the kids in my neighbourhood.

Buy it: To purchase, visit Step2

Giveaway: One lucky reader is going to receive a Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage ($329)

To Enter: Visit Step2 and make a comment back here about another product you like on their site

Bonus Entries:

• Follow My Wee View and Step2 on Twitter on Twitter and ReTweet this giveaway RT @myweeview @thestep2company Naturally Playful Countryside Cottage #giveaway ($329) http://bit.ly/dtqayF (you can tweet this once a day for extra entries)
• Like Step2 on Facebook
• Like My Wee View on Facebook
• Blog about this giveaway with a link to this post
• Grab my button
• **Follow My Wee View on Google Friends Connect
• Suscribe to my blog by RRS Feed
• Subscribe to my blog by email
• **Make a comment on a non-giveaway post

Giveaway closes September 4 th @ 11:59 pm PST.  Open to US and Canada

CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY

**Disclaimer: The product/s mentioned above have been given free of charge from the company or PR firm in exchange for being featured on My Wee View.  The product features expressed in this post are those of My Wee View and have not been influenced in any other way.  Please see the full Terms of use.

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Welcome to Fun Follow Friday hosted by Simply Stacie and My Wee View. The goal of this hop is to get new Google Friend Connect Followers for your blog and be introduced to new blogs to follow! We wanted to keep it fun and easy so all you have to do is add your blog link and start blog hopping and following away! You aren’t required to write a post for your blog for Fun Follow Friday unless you want to (but we really appreciate it if you do – to help get the word out).

When you visit a blog that you like and want to follow, leave them a comment with your link telling them you are following from the Fun Follow Friday. Of course, we would love for you to follow both hostesses blogs, Simply Stacie and My Wee View, but it isn’t mandatory. If you do follow us, just leave us a comment and we will follow you back.
The main goal is to have fun and follow the blogs that interest you!

There are a few fun things that Fun Follow Fridays does each week:

1.  Each week 1 winner will be randomly drawn for the #3 Spot, this week it’s

#32 My Tummy Calls

2. Each week 1 winner will get Premium ad space for 1 week on both Simply Stacie and My Wee View.  To enter, you have to blog about Fun Follow Friday! This week’s winner is Love.Laugh.Read.  (You can still participate in Fun Follow Friday without making a blog post about it. However, to participate in this special giveaway, you need to write a post about it)

Happy hopping along!

Have you entered my giveaway for $200 Cash? If not, then make sure you do! It’s an easy entry- just follow on Google Friend Connect.

How would you like an extra entry into the contest? Today (July 29) will be offering special bonus entry into the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour! In fact, we will be offering a few Bonus Entry days until the date the giveaway ends on August 9th. All will be easy entries- we promise!

Today  the bonus entry will be to tweet the giveaway! You can do this ONCE today only for an extra entry.

Please use the following tweet:

Win $200 Cash on the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour- Open Worldwide- Pls retweet  @myweeview.com #giveaway http://bit.ly/b4HW1n

Please leave a comment with the link to your tweet on the $200 Follower Giveaway Tour post. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS ON THIS POST.

Only 1 tweet per person for today only (July 29th) until 11:59 pm PST will count towards an entry. You can leave your entry on any of the participating blogs.

My daughter may not yet be 2, but she is already obsessed with “b-ugs”.  The Backyard Safari Outfitters products couldn’t have come at a better time for her.  The ants and spiders are in full force and are nearly taking over our sidewalks.  Going on walks with our daughter is pretty much torture because she stops at every single crack to look at all the “ant-s”, down on her tummy with her eyes close and her mouth wide open for the ants to nearly walk right in.  When you are 22 months, bugs are absolutely amazing.

The first day that we received our Backyard Safari Outfitters products, we took it straight outside and started on the hunt for bugs!  It first lead us to our front deck, but I thought it would be more exciting to keep going because searching for bugs is half the fun.  The next door neighbour’s child (who just turned 3), couldn’t help herself when she saw Genevieve and I outside with the bug vacuum - a strange and captivating contraption.  So the three of us were now on the hunt, and just a few minutes later we found a spider to investigate.  Being a big kid myself  (the adult), I thought it would be best if I was the one that pulled the trigger to try to suck in the spider.  The bug vacuum was able to suck in this little guy and went straight into the viewing area that is complete with a magnifying glass so you can get a closeup of the little creature.  Each child spent time ohhing and awwing over their newest outdoor friend.  The magnified glass isn’t that powerful, but it does enhance viewing.   To let the spider go, we simply had to twist the magnifying glass and out he crawled.

We then used the Bug Vacuum on many other critters, including flies and ants, and found that sometimes the bugs were stronger than the suction, so they were able to just crawl around the cone part of the vacuum and didn’t make their way into the viewing area.  The easiest bugs to capture were the ones that were already caught in spiders webs.  Either way, the kids loved just using the Bug Vacuum (once I gave it over), and started to pull the trigger on unsuspecting victims.  If you want to scope out bigger bugs, the vacuum comes with a simple attachment that has a larger nose to let bigger bugs in.

Backyard Safari Outfitters also carries a cargo vest for your little hunter. My daughter is nearly 2, and the vest is for children sizes 5 and up, so it was rather large on her.  The vest has all kinds of little pockets, d rings and looks like something a dad would wear while out on a fishing trip (we all know how much kids want to be like their dad’s).

Overall, the products at Backyard Safari Outfitters are lots of fun for little ones.  Despite my daughter being so young, her and the neighbour had lots of fun scoping out the bugs around our yard.  I didn’t find the suction was enough to get all the bugs, and the magnifying glass was a little weak, but to the kids it was amazing.  (Do you think I should let them know that my husband went out in the evening to spray  all the insects with bug killer?!?.  I would have thought that being chased around by two toddlers would have been enough for them to vacate the premise, but I guess not).

Buy it: To purchase, visit Backyard Safari Outfitters

Giveaway: One lucky reader is going to receive An adventure Kit, which includes: Water Tight Case, Retractable Carabiner Clip, Mini Lantern and the Pop-Up Essential Field Guide

To Enter: Visit Backyard Safari Outfitters and make a comment back here about something you saw on their site

Bonus Entries:

• Follow My Wee View on Twitter on Twitter and ReTweet this giveaway RT @myweeview #giveaway Backyard Safari Outfitters Adventure kit http://bit.ly/bqB6m4 (you can tweet this once a day for extra entries)
• Like My Wee View on Facebook
• Blog about this giveaway with a link to this post
• Grab my button
• **Follow My Wee View on Google Friends Connect
• Suscribe to my blog by RRS Feed
• Subscribe to my blog by email (2 Entries)

Giveaway closes August 13 th @ 11:59 pm PST.  Open to US and Canada

CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY

**Disclaimer: The product/s mentioned above have been given free of charge from the company or PR firm in exchange for being featured on My Wee View.  The product features expressed in this post are those of My Wee View and have not been influenced in any other way.  Please see the full Terms of use.