Hives

I am not blogging much today because I have hives and I am too itchy to type.  Sigh, I really need to figure out what is bothering me.

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Wow!

Aidan just did his firetruck puzzle all by himself with absolutely no help.  (Just in case “all by himself” wasn’t explicit enough.)

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The Finished Product

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You Rock!

That I do. 🙂

Don’t be shocked, I am not tooting my own horn too much but playing a lot of Guitar Hero III for the Wii. In spite of a rocky start (Story of My life is not the song to start on even if it is one you like,) I got the hang of this rhythm game. I think I did really well because a lot of the time I had a boy tugging on my arm saying “Whatcha doing Mommy?”

I am absolutely going to record Aidan playing and singing the Social Distortion song for his uncles. I am sure they will think it is as appropriate as I do. All we need is for him to say “Freaking Awesome”with the rock n’ roll sign as well. 🙂

I didn’t think I was going to get into this game as much as I have. I am not really a fan of heavy rock/metal and my first experience wasn’t the greatest. Once I had some time to myself with the game though I was hooked. It is another of those just one more turn games, except you keep saying to yourself just one more song. I like that the guitar feels really sturdy and despite being small neither Anthony or I have trouble using it. The guitar strap changes length fairly easily which is good considering the difference in our arm lengths.

We haven’t had a chance to try the co-op career yet because we only have the one guitar but I think that will change soon. Just so you know, I wasn’t paid in anyway or given a review copy of this game. (Nintendo, feel free to send games this way to be reviewed though.) I just was so surprised at my love for the game that I had to share.

In the same token, I just got the new Spyro and it is a big disappointment. I remember the Spyro of the PS1 time and I liked the graphics and gameplay much better then. This new Spyro is a little on the difficult side to use with the Wii controllers. I mean really, you should be able to get through the tutorial with out dying a dozen times. Ok, this could just be saying something about my abilities as a gamer, but if you want more Moms to become gamers at least make the games you gear towards them something that they can pick up and put down at a moments notice. I am sorry that this is a game I didn’t rent first. I will try it again this weekend but if I don’t at least get a little farther I will be relegating this one to sell to EB. Am I the only one that misses the cute Dragon that chased the bunnies all over the place?

The other game we got recently that I am enjoying is the new Crash Bandicoot, Crash of the Titans. I am still a little nostalgic for the old one but this one is more like I expected. You can also play as a team which is kinda nice. Anthony and I have different strengths when it comes to gameplay and we can let the other do the things we cannot do as well ourselves and have a chance to help each other with the boss levels. As long as we don’t both die at the same time all is great. We haven’t gotten too far along with this one but it will be a favourite during the rainy season I am sure. It is also something that we can (for the most part) play in front of the boy. A plus in our gaming family.

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Happy Halloween

Yesterday was the best Halloween ever. I was hoping to get Aidan a little trick or treat practice at a local mall but I guess that the malls weren’t cooperating and had all their Halloween activities on the Saturday past. Oh well, so we bundled up and went out for a walk down to Granville Island to take some pictures. Aidan decided that he liked the wings I made for me and wanted to wear them so WTH I let him and he made a very cute winged monkey.

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I was very worried that with Aidan’s imagination that the trick-or-treating aspect would be very short. I think I was right to worry because we had a bad start. I have a friend who lives in the coop housing right by False Creek Elementary school and it is the place to go trick-or-treating. Most of the places right around our townhouses are not full of kids so there are not a lot of places to actually get candy on Halloween. We decided to bring some candy to Joanne’s and do some trick-or-treating in her complex. (It also gave us a place to go if things didn’t go well with Aidan and a place to leave the stroller.) The only problem was that the place next door had a Halloween scary sounds cd. Aidan really didn’t like the “spooky” (his word, not mine) music. We tried to get him to knock on a few doors close by but he was still upset and would go to any place that had a pumpkin or any sort of decoration.

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In both of these pictures taken in front of Joanne’s place, Aidan is very worried about the music.

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Frankly we were about to give up when he did go to a house that was well lit and had very little decoration. When Aidan realized that he got to knock on the door (“knock knock” he said every time as he knocked) and got chocolate he decided to try a few more doors. He then started to really get into it and was smiling and going up and down the stairs, knocking on doors, saying “trick-or-treat” and “thank you” and even asking for more at a few places. (Cheeky little monkey!) Aidan and I decorated a little bucket to put his treats in and I brought a cloth bag to dump the candy in when it started to get full. He got great joy in bringing the bucket to Daddy to dump the candy in the bag. I think in the end we went to about 50 or so houses and Aidan had a blast.

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I think the best line of the night was “Aidan likes chocolate!” And so he does. He asked for some for breakfast this morning. 🙂 I gave him a couple of smarties and his cheerios. What the heck, it was his first real Halloween.

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