 Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallach Way. I'm Jessica, and today's video is going to be an Amazon haul. So I'm gonna share with you everything that I have bought, most of what I have bought recently from Amazon. This is mostly since Christmas, like since our Christmas haul, and it's mostly homeschool stuff because, well, what else do we buy? But I do have a few things that aren't homeschool related that I'll share at the end. I'm surrounded by stuff, so we're just gonna jump right in. So the first thing I have to show you is a set of books that I bought for Emily. It is the Unicorn Academy. It says, what if your best friend was a unicorn? At Unicorn Academy, every student gets their own beautiful unicorn. Each unicorn has a special kind of magic. Some can fly, and some can turn invisible, and some can even create fire. I'm gonna be honest, she hasn't started reading these yet, but they sounded a lot like the Dragon Master series, except with girls in unicorns. And Emily's unicorn obsessed, so I didn't think I could go wrong. If you're wondering about the level for your kids, that is what the reading level is. And they are each about, let's see. Oh, you know what? They don't have page numbers. There are no page numbers, but they are about that thick. I would say probably 100 to 120 pages, but they're super cute. Like even the covers of them are adorable. Now, I bought her the first four. There's set of four. I believe there are eight or more because I saw that there was another set. I just haven't bought them yet. I wanted to see what she thought of those first. For Valentine's Day, we got her this series, which is Animal Adventure Club. This was a gift from us, and she has already read them. She read all three of them within a week. She absolutely and loved them. There's Animal Facts inside, all about the animals that you read and about in the book. So like here, for example, this one had a hedgehog and a deer in it and a fox, and then there's like profiles of the animals in the back. The book itself has about 99 pages, and here is the reading level of these. There's Baby Deer Rescue, Baby Autorescue, and Baby Red Squirrel Rescue. These were the only three that I could find on Amazon. I don't know if there will be more, but like I said, she loved them. She read all three of them in a week. Oh, let's see. We also got her this book because we love DK, and it's the DK behind the scenes at the zoo, and she has been obsessed with this, like carrying it around with her, just like, do you know this? Do you know this? So I mean, it just has just, I mean, all kinds of information about the animals, about enrichment. Here is her favorite page ever. It's a checkup of a cheetah, and it's just, like I said, it's just so much information. There's, you know, like here's a zoo vet. It was like screamed Emily. It was right up her alley, and she's just really, really enjoyed that one. We got a few new books for read alouds, a Wolf Called Wonder and A Whale of the Wild. One of my friends shared about these books at Instagram, or shared about one of these books on Instagram, and when you check out, it suggests to the other, and I'm so glad I got them. This one is the Major Events of American History, and so it's 50 major events, and it's really kind of simple. So for instance, here's the gold rush on this side, and then here's the rest of it. So it kind of reminds me of the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, except it's historical events instead of people. There are about three pages, and then there's always a little Explore More. So these are the perfect link for our bedtime basket. See the little Explore More down there? So the American History is 50 defining moments from pre-colonial times to the 21st century. These would make great additions to Morning Basket too. They just fit really well in our bedtime basket. And then the other one I got was the World History One. So it's the same 50 defining moments from ancient civilization to modern day, and it is about three to four pages per, let's see here, let me find one. The Seven Years War, and then it ends on page three. So three pages about it. And these include History Revealed and another Explore More. So all of them have the Explore More. And then these books have like this little History Revealed section. So you can dig deeper with informative bonus facts. Okay, this next section of books, if you missed the spring homeschool plan video that I posted earlier this week, is all human body related because we are getting ready to start a very large human body unit study. I actually wrote one that I'm super excited about. It will be in the shop later this week. So that is what the majority of these are for. I owned a lot, but these were ones I wanted to add. This is the National Geographic Weird But True, Human Body Trivia. And of course we had to get the Magic School Bus and the Five Senses, as well as the Magic School Bus into the human body. And then these books are just funny and I knew Emily would like them. It's the Parts series, so we have parts, more parts, and even more parts. And they're just, I mean, they're funny. They're really funny. He's worried about everything happening. They're just hilarious. So I thought it would be kind of a fun way to lighten the topic of human body by reading these. And then, so we are already doing who was units along with this, but I also love biographies and this biography stood out to me because it's Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors. So it's about Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor. So we will be incorporating that. This was a no-brainer while in the world as one of Emily's favorite podcasts. So of course I had to get their human body book. And it's funny. Oh, here, of course the page I opened up to would be all about the Scoop on Poop. So that's a look at that one. And then this is my personal favorite, the Fantastic Body, Explore the World Inside You. It still appeals to a child or to a kid. I mean, it's still fun. Like here's another example. So those are the human body books that we got. And then the last book I have is Julie Bogart's new book, Raising Critical Thinkers for Me to Read. And then everything else. Okay, so again, we're doing human body. So I picked up the squishy human body. Okay, so this is for Emily to prove to me. Okay, this is a frog dissection kit. It's synthetic and it has like little replacements for the frog so you could do it multiple times. She wants me to get dissection kits from home science tools because they have like the whole mammal set where you can do the sheep brain and the sheep kidney and the sheep heart and they have a fetal pig. And so she wants to do all of them. This is her way of proving to me that she is even willing to dissect. So I got this because $14 and some synthetic stuff is way easier than an actual dissection kit. So if she can do this with no problem and handle it well, then we will discuss the actual dissections for the human body unit. I mean, I would love to do them but I just wanna make sure that she's actually on board with it and it's not gonna be me doing all the dissection and her watching. Or I mean, she can watch but you know what I mean, like I don't want her to be grossed out. This game looks like a lot of funs. It's called Bag of Bones. It's a trivia-based game. So we're adding that to our game collection. And then the Magic School Bus Human Body Lab. Now there are tons of hands-on activities within my unit study so we didn't really need anything extra. But I mean, who can say no to Magic School Bus? It's Emily's favorite. So she'll love every one of those. And she's at an age now where she can probably do most of those independently, like kind of as she's interested in it. And then somehow or another, when I fell down the trail, I think it was when I looked this up, this was suggested and I couldn't pass it up because it screamed Emily. It is a veterinary science kit. It's an anatomy clay sculpting. So you use the clay included to sculpt the anatomy for the different animals. So there's a cattle, a dog, and dolphin included. And like I said, it screamed Emily. She wants to be about when she grows up so I couldn't pass that up. Let's see, next is probably one of my favorite and new additions to our home school. It is the HP Sprocket. It is a tiny printer. It's the size of my hand. And it prints two by three pictures on sticker paper. We have been using this for journaling in our home school. So we will go through my phone and me and Emily will both pick two to three pictures that we want to print. And it just like super easy, Bluetooth prints them out. And you never have to buy a new ink because it's a zero ink system. It's like Polaroids. They just keep sprinting and you just recharge it. It's amazing. I love it. I think it's perfect for so many things. We're journaling with it right now. I am planning to start using it for our history timeline book so we can just print pictures easily on sticker paper and stick them into the timeline book. Like I can literally think of so many things I wanna do with this. So I'm really, really glad that we added that to our home school. It's a little pricey but I plan to get my money's worth out of it. Don't worry about that. And then this little cube timer is really amazing, you guys. It just sits and does nothing but there's five, 10, 20, 30 minutes. The timers have other minutes on them depending on what you want. And you can just quickly like flip it. Like if you want five minutes, you would flip it up and then it starts timing five minutes and goes off when it's done. If you want 20, you would just flip the 20 up to the top and it starts timing on that. It's such an easy way to be like, okay, in five minutes, like if you're doing a science experiment, you check it in five minutes and just, I don't know. I mean, yeah, we have our phones on us. Yeah, we have timers but that's just so easy. You don't have to worry about pressing by inch. Just walk by and flip it to whatever you want and it's set and it's done. And Emily can do it really, really easily. I really like it. It's my favorite. We use it a lot in our homeschool. Okay, I told you I had a few things that were not homeschool related. I'm gonna share those with you now. These are amazing and my favorite. We have been trying to be healthier and so we have a ton of fruit and produce in our fridge and it was starting to drive me crazy. And this pack comes with one big one that's this long and then two small ones. And so my fridge is now all nice and neat. It has the thing on the top where you can have less or more humidity and then it has like the little basket in the bottom so that everything stays off and it drains through. They have been really, really great for keeping our produce pressure longer and for me being able to actually see what's in the fridge and use it before it goes bad. So it's all organized now. I also, this was an early birthday present from Kevin. He just, I bought it and told him now you don't have to buy anything for a birthday. I had started making smoothies. I was super frustrated. I kept asking everybody what they use. I couldn't get anything to work right. Everybody said get a Vitamix. So that's what I did. I'm not picking the whole thing up. I just have the blender right here. So I got a Vitamix and everybody's right. It's amazing. It makes the best smoothies. It was ridiculously pricey for a blender but I'm very, very glad that I spent the money on it because it really does make the best smoothies. And I'm excited for all of the other things that it can do too. And then we also all three got a new Tervus bottle. They have the deluxe spout so it just unscrews and opens like a water bottle and it just makes it so much easier to make sure that we're drinking water all day long and we just fill it. I fill everybody's up in the morning and then we all have different colors and it keeps our water cooler. You guys, everybody laughs at me. Okay, I had a ton of requirements. First of all, it had to be small enough that it would fit in the cup holder of the car. I needed it to be at least 24 ounces because I did not want to be refilled on the water bottles every five seconds. And I wanted it to be insulated to keep everything cool and something to hold that I could hold with one finger when my hands were super full and hold all three of them into hands was a bonus. And I was like, those are our requirements for a bottle. But I found it. We love them. We've been using them for like two months. They really are pretty perfect. Like it hit all of the things that I wanted and it's withstood the dishwasher too multiple times because we don't hand wash. So it's been amazing. Okay, the very last thing I can't show you because there is no way I can lift it. Kevin's birthday present, both of our birthdays are in March. Kevin's birthday present was a treadmill. So we were gonna get both of them either way. You guys, I got a Vitamix, he got a treadmill. We were getting both of them and we were gonna call it a birthday no matter what. But like I said, we're trying to be healthier overall. And so we got a treadmill and it is on our back porch so that we can walk and enjoy the outside without getting rained on when it's raining. And that's it. That is everything for my Amazon haul from the past two to three months. And now I would love it if you would tell me in the comments because I always love it when you guys tell me the crazy things that you combine on Amazon too so that I don't feel real nearly as guilty about all of the things that I've been buying on Amazon. So don't forget to tell me in the comments what you have been hauling from Amazon lately.