Of the Skylanders that we have there are a few very special ones that we’ve picked up. I’ve been fortunate enough to get my hands on the Toy Fair Exclusive characters for the past two years. This year I even went to Toy Fair myself and got the metallic blue Chop Chop figure. I finally opened all of these figures because I want to play them and not just keep them in their boxes.
I had a few from Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure (Red Drill Sargent and Blue Bash) and two from Skylanders Giants which were Flameslinger and the aforementioned Chop Chop. I’ve been leveling up each of our remaining figures before I complete the game. I’ve got 21 left to go and two new ones that I haven’t given Eva as well as 6 unreleased figures. Pretty much all of them are completely leveled up, at least the Spyro’s Adventure ones and the Giants ones are close behind. I should have them all complete by the time that Swap Force comes out in the Fall.
On of the more fun Skylanders Giants figures has been Jet-Vac. I love his vacuum gun that can blow out bursts of air but also suck bad guys in and render them toast. You can also walk around and suck in random birds around the game. That is actually one of the quests for Jet-Vac, to suck 50 birds into the vacuum gun.
It was a nice day today so we spent a few hours cleaning up the sidewalk around the house. I swept the sand off the sidewalk and Eva helped me out as well. Allison started in on the flowerbeds and picked up many leaves while wrangling Andrew. The kids were very good while we worked.
Then it was time for the kids to get their Easter haircuts. Eva was an angel and enjoyed getting her hair cut. Andrew took some wrangling, but in the end he got his hair cut as well.
We had a quiet afternoon and watched the movie Despicable Me. Allison and I laughed pretty hard while watching it, Eva fluctuated between not liking it and then liking it. Andrew was transfixed for a bit and fairly cuddly. He must have been tired, he gets cuddly and affectionate when he is tired.
