Ruby Jewel just opened up a shop on Mississippi, so we HAD to go try it out.
Archive for August 2010
Liam has a whole folder full of sketches and drawings from the comic book camp he went to this week, but their main project was to draw a comic book cover. Here is his final product…
We got to celebrate Christie’s birthday with her today! The boys made her a birthday card and they wanted to take her bowling. (Really they just wanted to go bowling and the part where it was also her birthday just sounded like a good reason to go.) So, off to the bowling alley we went and then to play games in the arcade at the bowling alley. Liam made the mistake of asking Christie if she wanted to play air hockey with him…she stomped him.:)
This is Liam in the first few moments of walking into Comic Book Camp. He was in heaven! There were comic books, drawings and sketches on the walls and tables and tons of pens, pencils, markers, etc. to work with. They had converted a school cafeteria into a comic book haven. It was so great!
Liam got a little remote control car for his birthday a long time ago and we just now got around to assembling it. (In our defense, we moved about 2,000 miles right after his birthday party.) The boys set up a little obstacle course for it using their soccer cones.
Got these from our local toy store’s game library for this week.
The boys both really like Endango…it’s not my favorite although it does teach them about the environment, recycling, turning out the lights, not wasting water, etc. it’s kind of boring.
Polar Derby, on the other hand, is a learning game AND it’s fun. The learning part comes at the end when they add up the numbers on the bears to see how many points they have. It also has a strategy component which is what makes it fun and it can be adapted for kids of various ages.
We were desperate for some shelving in our toy room and we found these at IKEA. These are THE BEST toy shelves ever! LOVE them! We got two, one of them is put together and the other is in the process of being put together. (Thanks, honey!)
