Review: Moon Dough Truly Is New and Improved!

Angelica and I have been fans of Moon Dough ever since she received her first Moon Dough kit for Christmas last year. It truly is a fun alternative to Playdoh, and I loved how it conformed so well to the molds that came with it. Angelica felt the same. She'd ask to play with it almost every day!

The original Moon Dough formula was not without its drawbacks, though. It was crumbly, so even though it never dried out, bit by bit, it disintegrated until there was none left. I would find it in random places in the carpet, and though it was easy to vacuum out, eventually that whole first Moon Dough packet was gone.

Team Mom recently sent me the new Moon Dough Push-n-Pop Ocean Pals kit for Angelica to try out! It features the brand new Moon Dough formula, as well as the new push and pop molds. Just like the old formula, it never dries out, it's wheat free and hypo-allergenic, but I found that this new formula truly doesn't crumble the way the old one did. In fact, three months later, we still have the original Moon Dough that came with the Ocean Pals kit!

Angelica enjoyed it just as much as she did the old Moon Dough. Here she is, playing with her new push-n-pop Ocean Pals!

Moon Dough is also quite affordable -- you can find the kits at retail stores like Target, Walmart, and online at Amazon.com for $10-$20, depending on the size of the kit. Refills for the actual dough run $6-$10, depending on where you buy. This might make a fun and unique Christmas gift for the little ones on your list!


Disclosure: I received a product free of charge for purposes of review but was not financially compensated for this review in any way. All content in this article is my opinion and has not been influenced by the gift of a product or other monetary compensation. Thanks to Team Mom for providing the review sample!

Mommy, tell me about Baby Angelica

The past couple of weeks, Angelica has been very interested in how she was as a baby. One night, she asked me to read a book that was a favorite of hers before she even turned a year old, and I mentioned how she loved that book as a baby, and she loved it so much that her first copy got worn out and I had to buy a replacement.

(For reference, that book was Baby Einstein's Touch and Feel Baby Animals. Angelica now calls it "the fuzzy book".)

Ever since telling her that story, she will pull it off the shelf and tell me, "When I was a baby, I loved the fuzzy book, and then it broke and you had to buy me a new one and then I was a big girl!"

So this story about a book has turned into her asking me to tell her a story about Baby Angelica almost every night. She absolutely loves to hear about the sweet and silly things she did as a baby, and looking at it from an adult perspective, I feel like it gives her a real sense of who she is and how she became the amazing kid she is now.

Tonight she asked to see a picture of Baby Angelica, so I showed her the hospital photos we had done, and she asked what dress she was wearing. That dress still hangs in her closet, so I took it out and showed her. She said, "Ooh...how small! That wouldn't fit me now!" And I replied with, "Would you believe when we took that picture, this dress was too big?"


I also practically had her in tears from laughing so hard about some of the things she did as a baby. For example, when she was first learning how to talk, she would pick up one our cell phones, hold it up to her ear and say, "Hello? Chip? Wassup? Goodbye!"

As I was rubbing her back, she was quiet and still, and I thought she was asleep. Then, out of nowhere, she busts out laughing! She had started to drift off and then remembered what I'd told her about the phones, and she just couldn't stop laughing. It was kind of amazing.

But, wasn't it just yesterday that she WAS Baby Angelica? It feels like yesterday she was, and now I'm telling stories about that baby to BIG girl Angelica. Kind of surreal.