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I just got word that a number of the Disney storybook Deluxe apps have gone on sale. I’ve reviewed many of them on this blog and they are all very well done. The sale puts them at $2.00 off the regular price of $6.99. The sale runs from May 17 – May 21 and all Storybook apps below will be $4.99 only! read more!
I came home from the PBS Annual Meeting with a bunch of fun things for the family but some of the items I kept for myself. Two of the items were little bean bag type characters from Sesame Street. I kept them because they are my two favorite characters: Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster. Two aspects of my overall personality that could use a little work. For one thing there has never been a cookie safe around me and like Cookie Monster I need to learn a little more self restraint. Cookie is going to work on that in the upcoming season of Sesame Street so I should probably watch that with Andrew. The other aspect is that I can tend to be grouchy and keep things all bottled up in my own personal trashcan. I haven’t seen Oscar sent to anger management classes or anything yet but I think that both of us could stand to be a little less grouchy.
Today we took the kids over to the Capron Park Zoo. We were there to renew our membership and set Eva up for Zoo Summer Camp.
I think that she will have a great experience at the zoo this summer. I’m excited that she is now old enough to participate. She just loves the animals and loves showing us all around the zoo.
Day three of the conference began with a breakfast sponsored by the new PBS Kids show called Peg + Cat. We got to see a bunch of cute clips from the show and learned more about the show from creators Bill Aronson and Jennifer Oxley. Peg + Cat is a show about a young girl who solves her really big problems with Math. It is wonderful to see a show that tackles math with a female lead character. Peg is adorable and Cat is very funny with some great one liners and even one “word-ers”. At our tables we each received a book that contained part of the story from the first episode. The clips we saw focused on how 100 is a very big number and Peg + Cat had to gather up 100 escaped chickens on a farm before they could enjoy some juicy and gooey pie. You will notice a whole bunch of math related things in the show from the clouds shaped like infinity symbols to division and multiplication symbols on the armor when Peg + Cat pretend to be knights. The whole show takes place on graph paper too where Peg can write out the problems to help get to a solution. read more!
On May 7th a Blu-ray movie double feature was released. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson as Chon Wang and Roy O’Bannon team up for the first time in Shanghai Noon and reprise their roles in the hilarious sequel Shanghai Knights. I received a copy of this Blu-ray disc to watch and review. Opinions are 100% my own. I am a fan of Jackie Chan ever since watching Rumble int he Bronx years ago. His amazing style of martial arts combines quickness and power with humor and incredible stunts. Where Jackie disarms with his fists, feet and anything he can get his hands on including his hair. Owen Wilson disarms with his quick wit and puckish charm. Put the two men in one movie and you have a recipe for movie success. read more!
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