The boys really like the Super Hero Squad series and the toys that inevitably accompany it. We have the first season on DVD and Aiden has watched the episodes about a hundred times each. The animation and situations are very cartoony, but many of my favorite voice actors make appearances. Now that Chrissy and I have decided to...
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Chrissy was waiting until the weather got warmer before planting vegetables in the raised plant beds. Since the boys and I built her two more, she now has four boxes to populate! We now have room to add cucumbers and bell peppers into the mix. This makes me happy, in a way, because this year we’ll have something other...
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My boys really love Rescue Bots, a version of Transformers tailored to the pre-school crowd. They watch the show over and over, usually surrounded by their toys. The animation is simple and brightly-colored, more stylized than even Transformers Animated. Like Disney shows, Rescue Bots episodes do not revolve around violent...
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Two video game stories caught my eye recently. The first showed off new game footage for “Transformers: Fall of Cybertron“, High Moon Studio’s followup to the phenomenal “War For Cybertron”. In the video, the Grimlock playable character is highlighted, smashing through a horde of enemy...
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For the last several years, Hasbro has aligned their Transformers properties primarily with Michael Bay’s live action movies. Financially, this makes sense because this trilogy has been a cash cow since 2007. However, this move has been to the detriment of other Transformers lines that Hasbro has maintained, such as...
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Note to self: When parking at McCormick Place, get off on 31st and then get yourself to Lot C. Do not pass the building on Lake Shore Drive and try to park in the Bears stadium lot to the north. It’s outdoor parking, not a garage, and you know that it’s going to rain. It’s farther away than Lot C, and...
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We had fun at the Great Wolf Lodge last year, but didn’t expect to go back any time soon. In fact, we thought that our next trip to Wisconsin Dells would be to Kalihari, the slightly bigger indoor water park across the street. It’s closer to the highway (by about a block) and has its own indoor go-kart track. ...
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The big experiment last summer was growing vegetables in our back yard. The raised plant beds were so successful that Chrissy wanted two more for this year. Which means that I would have to make two more. I relented on the condition that we grow less zucchini this time around. We had way too much zucchini last year. I...
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