Ben & Noah; Little Kids with Big Ideas

This is the musings of Ben and Noah who are 6 and 4 years old respectively. They have their own website at www.betterthanalemonadestand.com where you can visit and learn a bit more about their story. They also maintain a blog at http://treefortenterprises.com where they share their day to day happenings and thoughts about whatever.

My Top 10

Monkey Bars and Playgrounds
My bike
Treeforts
Oceans and sandcastles
Flying in Airplanes
Lego Star Wars Video Game
Transformers
Owning my own business
School
Ice cream with Marchino Cherries and Sprinkles

Books about business for Kids

Just because you are a kid does not mean you should not learn about money and how it works.

Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids

by Gail Karlitz

Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

The Kid's ROTH IRA Handbook: Securing Tax-Free Wealth From a Child's First Paycheck or Money Answers for Employed Children, Their Parents, the Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs

by Tracy Foote

Amazon Price: $15.25 (as of 10/07/2008)

Growing Money: a Complete (and Completely Updated!) Investing Guide for Kids. (Financial Award Winner).(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Children's Digest

by Annie Stalling

Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 10/07/2008)

Lawn Boy

by Gary Paulsen

Amazon Price: $10.18 (as of 10/07/2008)

Common Sense Business for Kids

by Kathryn Daniels

Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 10/07/2008)

Books we are reading this week

These are some of the books we are reading and liked so much we read them a second and some cases a third time. So, if you have kids our age and need to buy them a good book, we think these are good ones.

The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award)

by Sarah Stewart

I really liked this book.

Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 10/07/2008)

Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (Ira Children's Book Awards. Primary)

by Leslie Connor

Hard work always pays off

Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 10/07/2008)

Timothy Cox Will Not Change His Socks

by Robert Kinerk

This is a cool book about a kid with smelly socks.

Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 10/07/2008)

One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

by Demi

This books how one can become a huge number really fast.

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/07/2008)

Inventor McGregor

by Kathleen T. Pelley, Michael D. Chesworth

We love this book!

Amazon Price: $12.80 (as of 10/07/2008)

Cool TV Shows

Our mom doesn't allow us to watch too much television but, these are the shows we watch

CyberChase on PBS
Fetch! also on PBS
Dragonfly on PBS
ZOOM! also on PBS but not on our home station anymore.

Cool Movies

We don't watch much television but, these are cool videos we think you will like.

Angel Wars - Guardian Force 2

We love these movies and can't wait for the next one.

Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

Jonah - A VeggieTales Movie

This is a fun movie that makes us laugh.

Amazon Price: $6.49 (as of 10/07/2008)

Transformers Armada: Season 1, Part 2

We love anything Transformers

Amazon Price: $31.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

Bionicle 3 - Web of Shadows

This is a cool movie.

Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

Boundin' [Region 2]

We love this movie!

Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)

Cool Stuff

Here are some things we like to play with!

Star Wars Deluxe Transformer Millenium Falcon

This is cool because two guys make up one ship. Both Noah and I can play together.

Amazon Price: $41.74 (as of 10/07/2008)

Hasbro Star Wars Transformers - Vader and Tie Fighter

I love this transformer.

Amazon Price: $27.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

Our favorite video game

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

K'Nex Rippin' Rocket Roller Coaster

The coolest building thing ever

Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)

Better Than A Lemonade Stand

This is our store. We created it so we could earn money to take a gymnastics class. please buy our stuff and tell all your friends to buy our stuff too. If you open your own store, tell them that mylemonadestand sent you!