Daily Archives: February 8, 2009

Review

MagNext Virtual

I love playing games online. I play a bunch of them on Facebook as well as other places. I got the opportunity to test out a great game site for kids, but to tell you the truth I enjoyed all the games too. The game site is called MagNext from MEGA Brandsâ„¢. These are the same people that make incredible toys like iCoaster, Spheron and of course the MagNext system. What they have done was take these great toys and made a fun online MMORPG. Each of those toys is now an online game that your kids can play for free.

Here is the user area and you can move around, interact with other players and play many different games as well as buy upgrades for your magnetic marble.

I played the game for a while and really enjoyed playing the online version of Spheron. I liked that game the most because it was really fun to move my car up and down and keep it flying along. The longer the car was driving along the more Magz I would earn. Magz are cool because with them you can buy paint jobs for your magnetic marble. You can also buy gear as well as actions. It is pretty fun because the paint jobs and gear make your marble look unique. The actions make your marble stand out when you are wandering around the world. This is where you can interact with other players through IM and emoticons. What is nice also is that the messages that can be sent are pre-written and they are friendly.

Speaking of friends, as a player you can invite your friends to play as well. The more friends that you invite and who accept your invitation the more experience points you get as well as more Magz. I played for a while but didn’t get enough experience points to go to the next level. I earned a ton of experience points playing the Spheron game, my favorite of all the games. I did play the iCoaster game and challenge game in the arena and they were fun but I am a car guy so Spheron was the most fun for me.

As a father who wants to keep my children safe online I think that this site has done it right. For one thing messages are already pre-written so kids can’t share sensitive information. That is important to me because you never know who is online. Also the MagNext games are non-violent and challenge kids imagination and cognitive skills rather than make them veg out and turn off their brains. This site gets a thumbs up from me as a parent.

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Photo-A-Day

The Piano

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The Piano
Photo-A-Day #1402

Eva has really enjoyed the piano at Memere’s house so today when we visiting Fr. Dave at the rectory we saw that he also had a piano. Or rather, Eva saw Fr. Dave’s piano and she kept saying “puh, puh” which is her word for piano. She loves playing it so she went towards it. I scooped her up so she wouldn’t go over to it.

Later as we were talking to Fr. Dave my mom mentioned that Eva like to play with her piano. The piano itself is out of tune and Fr. Dave said that his was as well. After that Eva was getting ancy so she walked towards the piano room. I followed her and propped her up on the stool and took a few shots as she played with the keys. She was very careful not to bang on the keys too. Well as careful as a 16 month old can be. Really, she actually uses her fingers and not her entire palm or fist.

Little Fingers

I also talked to Fr. Dave about the book Combinations by Ed Gerety. I just bought my Church a copy of the book so that the 8th Grade class of the school that is associated with the church Saint Mary Sacred Heart (My grade School) can use it with an 8th grade retreat. I love the book and the message and paying it forward and sharing it has become very fun for me especially when people enjoy the book.

Speaking of enjoying things, Allison made spaghetti squash for dinner tonight along with her mom’s recipe for meatballs and sauce. It was delicious! And spaghetti squash won’t spike my sugar like pasta. Nice. And if you are wondering what Spaghetti Squash is, it is really squash that when cooked is stripped apart and resembles spaghetti and with a little sauce it is really tasty.