{"id":3220,"date":"2011-07-02T22:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2011-07-02T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T15:34:37","slug":"adding-ticklish-and-cookie-fun-to-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/adding-ticklish-and-cookie-fun-to-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Ticklish and Cookie Fun to Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Karen Genco<\/span><\/p>\n

Karen has been married to her husband Mike for 9 years, and is a mommy to 5 year old twin girls with another baby girl due in August. \u00a0She has a rewarding part time career as a family practice physician assistant. \u00a0In her hard to find spare time, she enjoys gardening, crafting, and taking the kids out just about anywhere.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

When I first saw the Sesame Street Character iPhone cases from i.Sound<\/a>*,\u00a0I was excited for two reasons: one, if they made these kid friendly cases, then surely I wasn\u2019t alone in giving my young kids their own iPhones (disconnected); and two, if they used their iPhones in public with the cases on, it would look like an actual kid toy.\u00a0 My kids love having the iPhones for games, educational activities, pictures, etc., and I love them having them, especially for those times when I need them happily occupied (doctors\u2019 offices, restaurants, etc.)\u00a0 I just have a little guilt over giving two 4-year olds a grown-up high tech device.\u00a0 These cases eased my guilt just enough to be happy to pull them out in public.\u00a0 I even got some questions from fellow kid-with-iPhone parents about where we got them!<\/p>\n

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The cases are made for iPhones, iPod touches, and even iPads.\u00a0 Since we have twins, we naturally went for the twin pack (iPhone 3GS), which included both the Elmo and Cookie Monster cases.\u00a0 Both are very vibrantly colored, red and blue respectively, and have the characters face popping up on the back —\u00a0 big google eyes and all.<\/p>\n

I loved the colors because it made the phones easy to find at the bottom of my purse, with a quick glance around the living room, or even under the couch.\u00a0 It also helped to identify each phone; Elmo has the princess matching game, Cookie Monster has the animal matching game, etc.<\/p>\n

I was a little worried that the rubbery material of the case would be a problem for collecting sticky gooey stuff that seems to seep out of my kids, but they actually stayed fairly clean, and were easy to wipe off if anything did goop up on it.\u00a0 The material is fairly thin, and I wondered how much protection it would really offer.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a couple small drops and the phones stayed protected, but I don\u2019t know how much protection it would give with a harder drop or a throw (we did not test this\u2026 as far as I know).<\/p>\n

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The case slips on easily, but comes off even easier.\u00a0 This became a small problem for my one daughter who is a picker\/tinkerer by nature.\u00a0 She would often come for help with putting the case back on after she had slipped a corner off.\u00a0 My other daughter, however, never took the case off.\u00a0 I guess it depends on the kid.\u00a0 The case features openings for the speakers and dock connector, camera, volume on\/off, and headphone connector.\u00a0 The case also has a raised area over the volume control and power buttons.\u00a0 This particular feature we really liked because it made these buttons easier to use for small fingers.<\/p>\n

Overall, these cases are certainly made with kids in mind.\u00a0\u00a0 I speak for myself and my twin girls when I say we are very happy with our Sesame Street cases, and would recommend them for any family with pint-sized iPhone users.<\/p>\n

These fun cases are available from i.Sound online through their store<\/a>. \u00a0The iPhone 3G\/GS Elmo and Cookie Monster cases sell for $14.99 and they are also available for iPad 1 cases for $24.99. \u00a0i.Sound.net has provided a special discount for WellConnectedMom.com readers. \u00a0Enter the code SSMOM10 to receive a 10% discount on all Sesame Street products.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* i.Sound provided the two phone cases for review but all opinions are my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These fun i.Sound cases feature Sesame Street’s Elmo and Cookie Monster for the iPhone 3\/3GS. Sure to turn a head or two!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14,16],"tags":[742,741,2782,744,746,745,743],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","category-kids","category-moms","category-phones","tag-cookie-monster","tag-elmo","tag-iphone","tag-isound","tag-kid-iphone-cases","tag-phone-case","tag-sesame-street","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2011\/06\/Cookie-Monster-iPhone-case-400.jpg?fit=400%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}