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Cutting Birthday Cake with a SWORD!!!

That Sweet Imp
Photo-A-Day #4232

Today was Andrew’s birthday party. We had a party for his school friends at America’s Best Defense in Mansfield. This is where Andrew goes for Karate. While it is a hike to get there twice a week it is really worth it because of the instructors and Sensei. Everyone is great with the kids. Herding the young ones is a big job and they do it very well. I was interested to see how a group of kids who were not students of the school would react. Andrew is a lucky kid, his friends are great kids and they were excellent at the school. By the time the party was over all the kids were standing at attending, sitting like little black belt students, too.

Andrew got to wear the special birthday black belt and help out with the class by being a person who demonstrated the moves. You could tell that he was proud to do that and he showed such good form sitting and standing at attention. His blocks, punches and kicks were good, too. The party started with the kids all running around while Sensei and his assistant, Ms. Emma slid pads on the floor at the kids. If the kids got touched by the sliding pad then they would have to stop and do 5 jumping jacks. This got the kids running around and loosened up. I thought it was good because then they were not intimidated when the karate program actually started. The kids learned how to do some blocking and some punching before they had pizza (provided by the studio) and cake (made by Allison). Continue reading Cutting Birthday Cake with a SWORD!!! →

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Happy Halloween 2016

Eva and Andrew in their Halloween Costumes
Photo-A-Day #4220

We did something different for our Halloween this year. We went over to our friend’s house and went trick or treating around their neighborhood. It was so busy. That was a far cry from our neighborhood where we get maybe 40 people in the night. The kids had a great time with their friends and came home with huge buckets of candy. It reminded me of Halloween when I was a kid. I’d collect a ton of candy from all over the place. Their neighborhood was such a nice neighborhood. We left a bowl on the porch with a note to just take one. It was empty when we returned. Pretty sure it was hit the moment we got into the house. Glad we only put out half of what we had.

Andrew was excited about Halloween all day. He decided to ditch the Iron Man costume for the Skylanders Wallop Costume that we received to review. He really liked that costume. Eva, of course, is all about Harry Potter and loves her Hermione costume so much. She has been talking non stop about it and was delighted with each person who recognized her as Hermione. They both thought that my costume was a riot. I combined my Sriracha Bottle Costume with my Optimus Prime Helmet and went as “Srirachamus Prime”. Observe.

I am Srirachamis Prime. #Halloween #Transformers

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Andrew and I played Skylanders after school today. We played with the Sensei Candy Coated Chopscotch as well as standard Chopscotch and we made an Undead Imaginator with a Creation Crystal. The standard Chopscotch and the Undead Creation Crystal were given to me by Activision. I bought Candy Coated Chopscotch myself on release day. Here is my video about those toys.