one of the advantages to walking my kids to school is that i get to see what all the little kids are wearing and playing with. this way, i get a heads up on what’s hot, and what needs to be on my kids’ wishlists. also, i can gague how cool or uncool my kids are. (answer: not as dorky as they could be!)
when i say “walk my kids to school,” i mean that my third grader plows ahead of me to play catch with a football with some friends. my kindergarteners will stay with me until they see one of their friends ahead or behind, and then tear off down the sidewalk to exchange high-fives and incoherent greetings. i’d feel bad, but i’m not alone. for example, PrincessNinja does the same thing to her mom, StyleQueen. fair enough, she’s in second grade. but her younger sister, ScreamySpaz, just started doing the same thing last week. This is especially funny since ScreamySpaz is still in preschool, and is just walking her big sister to school with her mom. she runs ahead to get to the school first, and then has to wait for her mom to catch up to her (she’s tried to hide behind SpazMonkey and DramaQueen in their kindergarten line, which would totally work if she wasn’t a head taller than them). when her mom catches up, they turn around and ScreamySpaz runs ahead all the way back home. at this point, the whole “walking PrincessNinja to school” thing has pretty much been thwarted. in fact, i didn’t see StyleQueen this morning. She may have given up entirely.
So, anyway. basically, i walk MonkeyBeef to school at roughly the same time his big brothers walk themselves to school.
yeah. bakugan. all the kids have them. i’m assuming there’s a tv show associated with the toys. we haven’t seen it. my kids haven’t asked for the toys yet, but they’re slow. i put it on their wishlists. just doing my part to keep my kids at 7 or lower on the 1-to-10-nerditude scale.
hmm. okay. so i’m looking at this stuff… i like. these little robot thingies that roll up into a ball, then pop open and transform when you throw them into battle. here’s the cool part… they’re magnetic. and some of the trading cards, which you lay out onto the field of battle, are magnetic, and the cards affect the motion of the figurines. cooooooooooooool shit.
and this is why my kids get awesome toys… because PositiveRoleModel and i love awesome toys. i got the “are those lobsters crawling out of your ears?!?” look from PewPewPew’s mom just the other day when he ran up to me to tell me he had just bought the republic gunship lego set. so i got all excited with him. then he said, yeah, but we had to waste almost a hundred dollars on it. at which point i reassured him that, since the set came with both asajj ventress AND plo koon minifigures, it was most definitely NOT a waste of money.
and this is one of the top 3 reasons why i have so few female friends.
