WW: Bubble Wrap {Linky}

One of Isaak's favorite things to do is to pop bubble wrap. Travis (Dad) hates the sound. When I knew Travis would be home late, and a package was sitting there waiting for me to open it...I said, "Isaak come here." We opened the package together, and I let him pop all the bubbles in the bubble wrap, while I made dinner. 

He stomped, he popped them with his fingers, he rolled it and popped a whole bunch at once. They aren't the best pictures in the world. Sometimes it's the little things that can make someone's day.

What kind of noises drive you batty? For me it's nails on the chalkboard.


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All Queens Chess Game Review

My kids and I have never played Chess. I was a little nervous that we'd have trouble figuring out All Queens Chess By ThinkFun. Guess what? We figured it out pretty fast. You don't have to be a Chess player to play this game. 

It's $12.99 on ThinkFun's website, and $11.99 on Amazon's site.

It's a Way to Ignite Your Mind! 

• This game is for ages 8 to adult. Isaak knows how to play, and he turns 7 soon.

• I love that it's for 2 players. If both boys can get past fighting, and have fun playing games we're set. :)

Set Up

• It comes with the fold out board, 6 red players, and 6 black players. 

• The red players go on the black squares, and the black players go on the red squares.

Playing

• Each player takes turns moving. Just like in Chess you can move forward as many spaces straight, sideways, or diagonally as you'd like. There's a catch, you can't jump, or bump off the other player. 

• The goal is to get 4 black, or red (whatever color you are) in a row. This game merges Chess with Connect 4.

The red player won:

The Black Player won:

Take a look at my boys playing All Queens Chess.

The boys had so much fun with this! Maybe we'll pick up Chess.


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RushHour Shift Game Review

My boys discovered RushHour when they were in preschool. Since that time we've moved up to an advanced version of RushHour. Recently RushHour Shift was sent to us by ThinkFun. 

It's the same fun as RushHour, but there's one really important difference RushHour is for 1 player, RushHour Shift is a 2 player game. 

It comes with a book of instructions, and different ways to layout the game board.

Mica likes to set up the board. It's like it's his job to set up the board.

Objective;

One player is the silver car, and the other player is the gold car. Each player is trying to move their car across the board. It reminds me of the old game Frogger. 

There are different types of cards: 

Both players get 4 cards that they can look at. Every time a player gets rid of a card, they pick up a new card.

You can move any car, but the opponents.

A number card indicates how many spaces you can go. You can move your car one space, and another car one space | Your car two spaces | Another car two spaces

A number - shift card indicates how many spaces you can go. You can move your car one space, and another car one space | Your car two spaces | Another car two spaces

The symbol at the bottom indicates that you can shift the game board.

A shift card indicates that you can shift the game board, without the player moving at all.  

The card below indicated you can move your car as far as it will go until it hits another vehicle, or until it runs off the board and that player wins.   

When we shift the game board it's usually to mess up the other person. I'm the silver car. I won! Isaak asked to play again.

This game is super fun. It's $24.99. I love that it has a bag that comes with it. Yes boxes are cool, but they take up a lot of room. The bag makes it easy to travel with this game. It's for ages 8 to adult, but Isaak's not even 7, and he understands it.

Features: 

• Traffic Grid
• 12 Blocking Vehicles
• 2 Hero Cars
• 32 Cards
• Instructions with 10 Game Set-Ups
• Travel Bag

ThinkFun also gave me RushHour to. :)

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Rain, Rain Go Away

Last week my nephew Emerson has tons of tests done. It turns out the little man has a Tethered Spinal Cord. He need surgery on that. There's a few other things that he has, that they have to watch out for.

I spent a few hours on the phone helping my Dad with Photoshop. Had I not ran errands all day, I would have stopped what I was doing, and just drove there to help him. He claims he knows the program so well, and doesn't use its main feature - layers. Shaking my head! At least he tries. His images look wonderful, but he was saving everything as jpgs, instead of psd Photoshop files. That can reduce quality after saving images over time. While I was trying to help him, he kept saying, "Maybe I just shouldn't do this. It's too much work..." Being all down on himself. Anyhow my brain hurt after that conversation. A short while later he wanted to know how to attach an image over email. He has a different email then me, he has a PC and I have a MAC, so all this stuff is hard to explain.

I tried multi-tasking when I was on the phone with my Dad, and dropped a jar of jam on the floor. Busted glass + jam = a big mess! Travis my wonder husband is great at cleaning up after my clumsiness!

A short while later I got a text from my Mom that my Grandpa is in the hospital with a UTI. He's ready to go home today, but his memory isn't its self. I don't know if the infection is what's messing with him, the fact that he's in a different place, or he is really loosing it. He's old - upper 80s and has a weak heart. Up until this point he's been sharp as a tack. My Mom and Aunts want him to stay in the hospital 1 more day, but I don't know if insurance will let him do that.

Isaak was off all weekend. He felt warm, but didn't have a fever. He wouldn't eat much. Rain set in all weekend, and people were going sinus crazy. I can't tell if he has a cold, or allergies. Yesterday he wouldn't drink his water. I said, "Come on just drink your water, so I can put your glass in to run the dishwasher! Do something Isaak!" He said, "Mom I am doing something! I'm thinking. That's doing something. That's doing a lot actually." This morning I sent him to school. Maybe I'm a bad mom for that. If he has just allergies then why stay home? I told him if he feels worse to have the nurse call me.
 
My nephew Edison has a fever of 103! He has a doctor's appointment later today. I would say that Isaak has what Edison has, but we haven't been around my sister's family since Easter.

The weather outside - rain - gloom is about how I felt.

On the up side, so this whole post doesn't seem gloomy my husband sold a sculpture. It's only a $500 one, but a sale is a sale. I'm the one that told him to spend the extra time putting that nice base on it.

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Liquid Chalk Markers Review

I love Liquid Chalk Markers. These are made by: Ander Blake Company. 

You can buy this set of Liquid Chalk Markers on Amazon for $27.99, and they are on sale right now for $17.95.

The set comes with 8 vibrant colors: 

White, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Red, Ultramarine Blue, Green and Light Blue

Since I'm surrounded with boys in my life I decided that I'd use the color pink for this review. It's funny because I never was a pink girl, but now that I'm getting older I gravitate to it.

I bought these fun clips in the clearance section at a craft store. I'm going to attach the word happy to the things I have graded for class. Since I work at an art school, my students will love seeing this word change every so often.

If you mess up what you are writing, or decide to change your mind on what you've wrote, the liquid chalk can be cleaned off with a wet rag. Then you can rewrite whatever you want, in whatever color you want.

The tips are fine, and chisel 6mm. This makes them easy to write with. You do need to push on the tip about 5 times to get the chalk to initially work it's way down into the tip of the marker. They do this, so that they do not come to you dried out.

They are BEST used on:

• Non-Porous Glass
• Windows
• Chalkboards
• Whiteboards

They can be used for:

• Restaurants
• Bistros
• Bar Signs
• Walls 
• Crafts
• Fun

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I love the vibrate quality of the color I used!

What color would you use first?

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