completely monopolize your kids’ game systems until they are crying that it’s not fair that mommy won’t let them play their DS borrow your kids’ game systems to play a game? I really have been good about this since Jordan got his DS and now that Kat has one. I used to take over the Gameboys until I beat MegaMan
, but not no more. I’m a responsible mommy who doesn’t make her children cry over their Nintendo DS (DSi in Jordan’s case), well, unless they are grounded, but that so is not my fault.
Let me start this out, this is a review I guess, but I bought the games myself and no one asked me to do it. This is me and my new addiction. This is just something I had A LOT of fun playing and thought I’d use it as blog fodder because nothing much happened yesterday share..
We went to GameStop yesterday to use the $10 giftcard I won from the ESRB. I had made a deal with my 2 oldest that if they did something above and beyond their normal chores that they could get $20 in games. Jordan picked out his normal type of games: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team
& Naruto: Ninja Council 3
. Both of those were $9.99. Jordan is safe because those are 2 games that I would never play, I don’t think. Actually, I’m not sure, never tried – pass me the DS and we’ll see.
Katiana had it narrowed down to National Geographic: Arctic Tale
($5.99) and Petz Wild Animals Dolphinz
($14.99) and I was ready to go because holding my 25 + lb 10 month old son gets to be hard on the back after awhile. I couldn’t put him down as Alyce was already wreaking havoc on the store, “looking” (with her hands) at every game, climbing on the Guitar Hero display and sitting down like a queen on her throne. Get your butt over here now. Then Kat saw this game –
Cooking Mama
HUH? You want that game? Why? Cuz someone on my bus has it and I got to play it and I really really really like it. But Kat wouldn’t you rather get the 2 other games? This one is $20 and you can only get this one game. Nope! I want this game.
I went up to the register and said, I have no idea why she wants this game. He said, Cooking Mama? That game rocks! I womp my friend in it all the time on …….. insert whatever game system he said because I forget. Really? Alright, it’s what she wants.
We came home and I was good. I really truly was. I didn’t even look at it, until Kat said, mom I want you to pass this part.
I said, no, I’ve got to start supper. She said, just once mom. Please?
Ok.
It’s her own fault.
What a fun game! You literally are cooking these dishes and you have to follow the instructions (obviously). When you do good, she smiles at you. When you do really good, she smiles and gets these sparkly diamonds in her eyes. When you screw up, she turns into the devil. Ok, not really, but she gets these flames shooting out of her eyes and looks like me when my kids have been fighting all night.
I played and played and played until Kat’s DS started complaining that the battery was dying. So, I took it in the bedroom while I was putting Nano to bed, plugged it in and played some more. I hooked Kat up with a whole bunch of new recipes. I am so sure she’ll appreciate me getting so far on her game when she gets home from school today. Mom! Why’d you do everything???? I can hear her now.
The good thing is it’s easy enough for her to play (she’s 5) and it’s way fun for mama to play too.
There’s a whole bunch of them that we can’t live without would really like to have now –
Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop
Cooking Mama: Cook Off
Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends
Cooking Mama World Kitchen
and there’s even Gardening Mama
.
I see a Cooking Mama type of birthday for Katiana in April. That would never be planned for my own advantage.
In other news, for those of you who use Artscow, or if you never have, it’s an awesome company, they have a new coupon code out today!
You get 10 free 20 paged 8X8 books with this coupon code: 1020P8X8BKS. It expires on 1/25/2010. So, go to your Artscow account, click on credit and discount, then enter the coupon code. It’ll save all of those books for you to make when you are ready. (Note the expiration date of them when you enter it in, usually they expire 1 by one every couple of weeks.)
I’ve had quite a few of those made for myself and I really like how they come out. It’s what I do with my layouts. I collect them until I have 20 then have them put into a book. The only thing I would suggest with them is really watch the edges. Use their zoom out and in button in their creator to get them aligned just right. Otherwise you’ll be cutting something off of your page.
I have to also say thank you to the Energizer Bunny’s Mommy Reports. I won a fashion scarf from her blog this morning. I’ve never owned a scarf whose sole purpose wasn’t to keep my neck warm during an Iowa winter. I’m kind of excited!
And the Ricky Martin tweet of the day because I missed a few days –
Image is linked
Rock on and go play some Space Invaders with Ricky!
Have a great day!
Random letters of the day – bsn atro phex. If you have any idea what that means, than I guess that is all for you!
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