It’s that time of year again–the time when we celebrate the paternal half of our parenting duo. It’s Fathers Day! Men are, in my opinion, harder to shop for than women. This is probably because women aren’t very diverse. MOST woman can be satisfied with either something that sparkles or something that smells good! Men, on the other hand, are very broad and have a huge number of interests to choose from. Some are sports fans, some like to hunt, some fish, some golf, some are into computers. But, regardless of other interests, most men are young at heart, and, for THAT father, there’s this Marshmallow Blaster in Blue and Red:
It’s a gun that shoots marshmallows! Yes, that’s what I said….marshmallows! You load the gun and it’ll shoot a target up to 40 feet away. You can use the regular size marshmallows for a clear shot, or load the gun with several miniature marshmallows for a scattered effect. Either way you choose, this gun will provide hours of entertainment for the father in your life and the kids who call them “Daddy”.
Guitar Hero’s has released info on what will be one of their newest releases this year-which will included Guitar Hero Smash Hits
(I will post the rest of their upcoming releases for this year over the next week ), which will be released in June 2009. This game is equal to their version of their greatest hits! The set list includes some of their songs from all previous versions of Guitar Hero, though their will be a option to in a band format and not just solo guitarist.
Here is the total set list for it-
Guitar Hero 1 Songs
Bark at the Moon-Ozzy Osbourne
Cowboys from Hell-Pantera
Godzilla-Blue Oyster Cult
Hey You-The Exies
I Love Rock and Roll-Joan Jett & The Black Hearts
Killer Queen-Queen
More Than a Feeling-Boston
No One Knows-Queens of The Stone Age
Smoke on the Water-Deep Purple
Stellar-Incubus
Take It Off-The Donnas
Take Me Out-Franz Ferdinand
Thunder Kiss ’65-White Zombie
Unsung-Helmet
Guitar Hero 2 Songs
Beast and the Harlot-Avenged Sevenfold
Carry On Wayward Son-Kansas
Cherry Pie-Warrant
Free Bird-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freya-The Sword
Heart-Shaped Box-Nirvana
Killing in the Name-Rage Against The Machine
Laid to Rest-Lamb of God
Message in a Bottle-The Police
Monkey Wrench-Foo Fighters
Mother-Danzig
Psychobilly Freakout-Reverend Horton Heat
Stop-Janes Addiction
Them Bones-Alice In Chains
Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart-Stone Temple Pilots
The Trooper-Iron Maiden
Woman-Wolfmother
YYZ-Rush
Rock the 80’s Songs
Nothin’ But a Good Time-Poison
Electric Eye-Judas Priest
I Wanna Rock-Twisted Sister
Play With Me-Extreme
Round and Round-Ratt
Guitar Hero 3 Songs
Barracuda-Heart
Cult of Personality-Living Color
Hit Me With Your Best Shot-Pat Benatar
Lay Down-Priestess
Miss Murder-AFI
Raining Blood-Slayer
Rock and Roll All Nite-Kiss
Through the Fire and Flames-DragonForce
It has also been rumored that they will have a Aerosmith song in it, though on their official site for the game, they do not list it in the set list.
Guitar Hero Smash Hits will be released in June 2009 for Sony’s Playstation 3, Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
Another Guitar Hero Rumor I heard was that they are releasing a Pearl Jam set soon, and I’m really looking forward to that!
My 9 year old son Lucas got a camera last weekend when we went to Best Buy. He’s been wanting one for awhile and after all his hard work to get on the honor roll how could I say no? Besides that he had a shiny Best Buy gift card just burning holes in his pockets. He is so in love with his little camera, he took hundreds of pictures with it already.
I made a folder on my flickr account for some of his pictures, titled By Lucas. That gives me two little budding photographers now, Dylan and Lucas both have their very own cameras.
His first picture he took with the camera was a self portrait;
He spent an entire day taking pictures of Ethan and testing things out since Ethan is a little ham and doesn’t mind;
And then off to the park to show off his new camera to his friends and get some pics;
The pictures taken outside definitely come out better than the ones he takes in the house. They aren’t going to take great wedding photos for your scrapbook, but for a 9 year old that just wants to snap pics of his friends and pets it’s pretty darn good!
Who knew that three little megapixels could bring such joy? Lucas is happy he has a camera to call his own, I’m happy it didn’t cost me a small fortune! So far I’m happy with the purchase as I am with most Disney gear purchases. It’s got a tough case, it came with everything he needed, and it even includes a kid friendly easy to use photo editing program, which we haven’t played with yet. You can use the program to add borders and Disney characters to your pictures so that should be fun for the boys to use.
I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews about these little Disney gadgets online. I’ll admit he has only had the camera for a week, so I can’t say that it’s going to last forever, but then again I don’t expect it to last anywhere near forever either. It’s basically a hi-tech toy. I’ve read a lot of places saying they are for pampered little rich kids with lots of money to spend. Sorry, my kids are not pampered, and we certainly don’t have a lot of money to spend! Far from it. Gees, it’s not like I bought him a new car for goodness sakes, it’s an inexpensive little camera for him to have some fun with. Remember fun?
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I’ve been eyeing the AntWorks Illuminated Ant Farm since before Ethan’s birthday on the 12th of this month. It’s the sort of thing I know both he and Lucas would like to have in their room. Lucas is the kind of kid that has to take things apart to see how they work, and will stare at an animal for hours and just watch what it does… and occassionally will rip the wings of a fly to see what it does flightless. Ethan is the sort of kid that likes to poke things with a stick. ‘Nough said there. And Dylan and Noah have a frog habitat in their room, so it only seems fair that Ethan and Luke get something too, right? And it’s better than icky old sea monkeys any day.
That’s not all … vat19 has lots of cool stuff for the kiddos big and small. Like the watermelon smencil that my husband quickly claimed as his when I got it, and took it too work so I can’t even borrow a sniff. Which, by the way is made from recycled newspapers, very cool! OH! And the color flame candles that I used on Ethan’s birthday cake… so pretty! They would have made a great picture if he hadn’t blown out the candles so fast with his wish!
The holidays are coming up and there have been so many toy recalls that parents heads are spinning. I bet the market research department at the video game companies are just over joyed with the thought of all these other toy recalls! The thought of video games and mindless hours in front of the television is definitely better in comparison to a toy induced coma from aquadots or serious lead poisoning from your toy car! Bring on the video games!
