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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

A COMPLETE STRANGER WE MAY NEVER MEET MADE MY SON VERY HAPPY YESTERDAY

I have talked about the game HeroScape in some past posts. It is a very fun game and I highly recommend it to all. Well there was one piece that has been hard to come by because it was a promotional piece. it is called Nerak, the Glacial Swog Rider. On the Website Heroscapehq.com on guy had gotten a... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 3, 2006

MY BOYS DON'T SEEM TO CARE ABOUT MY HAIR

I was figuring of all people my tow boys would be confused by my haircut. Neither one had ever known me with short hair. I was more or less figuring that they would be thrown off and possible not recognize me. I went to pick them up and both of them had no problem and said nothing about my haircut.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

MY SONS IS GOING TO BE A GAMER

Right now my six year old is very much showing his interest in gaming. He wants to play games every chance he gets. And I do as much as I can. Right now we have gotten very interested in a game called Heroscape which I had been wanting to get a copy of, but was unable to justify the $40 price.... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

A GREAT PROMOTIONAL EVENT

Yesterday I took my six year old to a promotion they were doing the Lego Store. This was a really well done promotion. It was for their new lines of Anima style robots, I can't remember the name right now… Roboforce or something like that. They had the set already built and told the kids the story... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 18, 2006

HE'S GETTING AN EARLY START AT BEING A PEEPING TOM

We were in at the Children's Place today looking at clothes since they had some really good sales going on. Our almost three year old noticed some feet in one of the dressing rooms and decided to take a peek and see who was in there. We caught him because the mother of the girls who were using the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 5, 2006

'YOU GOTTA GET DRESSED BEFORE YOU CAN...'

We have been having a regular problem with our six year old lately. He really takes his time getting dressed. You can sit him alone in his room and tell him that he can not come out until he has gotten dressed and he will take ten minutes or more to do this. Weekday morning the boys do not get to... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

ALL THE KIDS WERE KUNG FU FIGHTING?

Today we went to my niece's birthday party. It was done through her karate school. My six old year old had a little problem. The instructor played a game a few times where the kids were to stand perfectly still, no moving, talking or laughing. My son decided to play the class clown. Every time he... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

IT WILL BE JUST ME AND FIVE KIDS FOR THE EVENING

My wife has a meeting tonight at her work and so our friend who works with her also needs to be at that meeting. So I end up being the only one free this evening to baby-sit all the kids. So I will be watching five of them on my own for about an hour or so. Should be fun. Age rang from six months... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 26, 2005

HANDLING THE AFTERMATH

Here we are the day after Christmas and now it is time to deal with the' aftermath. Our house is a total mess and the boys have no interest at all in trying to pick up and organize their new toys. We have hot wheel tracks all over our halls. Bits and pieces of wrapping paper and packages everywhere.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 23, 2005

THE BUNK BEDS

So today the boys got the early Christmas present, their bunk beds. One of the first thing to be evident is that for the time being sending them to their room is not going to work as a way to punish them. In fact I had ot make them come out to the living room because they were getting out of control... Sign in to see full entry.

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