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If you ask our two boys (2½ and 5½), they would 100% say their favorite store is the Dearborn Goodwill. If they donate two toys, they can pick out one to take home, and we’ve spent many rainy weekend mornings in those aisles. For all things art and creativity, my favorite place is the SAM Shop — I buy all of my kids’ gifts there.
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Stay-at-home-momturned-entrepreneur Adrianne Gold opened her own balloon shop after years of being that Pinterest mom at parties for her kids. Color Pop Design opened in March, and even did a party for Mariners great Edgar Martinez. Fully customized balloons start at $100. Delivery available throughout the Seattle area. 3 shopcolorpop.com
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Family game play resulted in the bestselling Taco vs Burrito.
Food fight game night Ballard kid inventor of Taco vs Burrito is winning over players with his game of strategy by J I A Y I N G G R Y G I E L / photo by J O S H U A H U S T O N
Alex Butler is 9 years old, and he’s cracked the Top Ten for best-selling games on all of Amazon for a game he created when he was 7. Yes, you read that right. “Adults always think he’s
making it up, the first time they hear about it,” says his mom, Leslie Pierson. But it’s true. They’d always been a family of game players, ever since Alex was little. On trips, they would play a new card game
every day, and evaluate which ones they liked best. Alex loved strategy; he’d study up on a new game, so he could win right away. Then one day when Alex was 7, he announced he wanted to make his own game, and it was going to be called Taco vs Burrito. “I didn’t think he was going to make a game, I thought he was just joking around,” his mom says. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE >
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Bento bibs Seattle artist Linda Hoshide learned to sew from her mom, and she’s been sewing her whole life. Her bibs and tees feature a bowl of rice, because Asians eat a lot of rice, says Hoshide, who is a third-generation Japanese-American. Bibs ($12) and tees ($15, 6 months-4T), come packaged in a bento box. 3 KiMonoMono.etsy.com
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