I purchased the game Rock Band for the Wii for Margot’s birthday. It’s pretty cool and we’ve spent afternoons playing it. Typically Margot plays the guitar and I sing or play the drums.
It’s quite the show! Of course, we make sure the kids are asleep and then we jam out with Emmy in her pack-n-play nearby!
Now Rock Band 2 is coming out over the next month or so. When I went to the game store I noticed that it had already come out on xbox 360 and Playstation.
Yesterday Margot asked what day it was and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out if it was Monday or Thursday!
Now that’s bad…
I then figured out that Margot had been to work the day before and concluded that it was Thursday!!
This weekend we’re going to a local geocaching event at the local state park. They are going to have new geocaches so that we could be the “first to find” and also many older geocaches planted throughout the park.
If only we had some good tactical gear to wear while finding treasures! That would guarantee that we would find all of the treasures and not get frustrated with going to a sight only to be frustrated and without treasure or the find!
Today we did absolutely nothing! We were going to go to Lowe’s and pick up sandpaper, stain, and new knobs for our new piece of furniture that K&C gave us.
However, after Margot went to the grocery store and it was pure ice and dangerous we decided against the trip into “town”.
So we stayed at home and played “Super Mario Galaxy” on the Wii. It’s a great game and because it has so many different galaxies if we get stuck on one we open up another one and can come back later!
We also caught up on some television and a few “Weeds” and “Project Runway” episodes.
It’s sad that we pay so much for television and with the damn writer’s strike we have nothing taped but The Backyardigans and Tom and Jerry!
On the baby front, I did the doppler today and it looks like the kid’s heartrate has dropped (as expected) to around 147 beats per minute! When I did it for a second time today it was around 152bpm.
It’s interesting how it all works. Supposedly between weeks 15 and 16 is slows down a little bit. Last week it was around 165bpm.
Tuesday we have our midwives appointment and Wednesday I go back for the final bloodwork for the nuchal screening test. I should get the results for that back in 7-10 days. This whole thing is really dragging out! I’m sure everything will be fine but I wish I would have done the other testing so that I’d already know that everything was in good shape.
About 9 years back online gaming became pretty big. For Christmas Margot let me go onto one of the websites and play. Of course, I was given $20 and after I had blown through that there was to be no more money.
To say the least…I did pretty good. After an afternoon of gambling online and playing blackjack I had the $300 to go out and buy a new Sony Playstation 2!
Of course, since that time I’ve heard of online websites coming and going. Many of them have been shut down because they don’t get enough traffic and some have been shut down because they don’t have fair practices.
Now there’s finally a website that will give you the skinny on each of the online gaming casinos. When you look at a casino online you want to make sure to go to one that is reputable and has some big payouts. Plus, I always wanted to make sure that I was playing against other people and not just a computer!
www.pro360.com offers a website that actually ranks the different online gaming websites. It provides helpful feedback so that if you’re new to online gaming you won’t lose your shirt by going to an online gaming website that is unfair and unethical.
As far as my gambling days go….they are no more. I now have to save my money for binkies and diapers!
Lately, we’ve been heading up to bed and playing a game or reading to Grammy. She’s mastered the game of “Go Fish” and aside from us robbing her blind - she actually wins a good percentage of the time.
At some point we’re going to have to teach her to play checkers, chess, and backgammon. We figure if we teach her at a young age she could probably be pretty good by the time she turns six.
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Backgammon is forever growing and if we don’t get Graem started early I’m afraid it’s going to be too late. It’s the same with piano, violin, soccer, softball, gymnastics, and chess…
I was actually shocked that when I called to enroll her in gymnastics class I was told that all of the 2-3 year old classes were full and she’s not officially on the wait list! It seems like everything involving kids and our area - we seem to get on the wait list!
Lesson learned….we’ve got to sign the new baby up NOW for all of the activities when he/she is two year olds!
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The ongoing antics of two thirty-something *gasp* mamas raising a four-year-old daughter and an eight month old daughter.