Today we talk about ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ Season 3, and then unbox the new ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ die-cast lions that I picked up at SDCC from the Entertainment Earth booth!
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In this episode we talk about more of the Playskool action figures, but this time, it’s the Avengers! We then talk a little bit about Captain Owen’s favorite superheroes and villains before wrapping up with a little bit of Transformers.
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In this episode we discuss Sakura-Con, a bunch of cosplay ideas, Captain Owen pretends to be a Transformer with many, many, many modes (including an idea for a combiner Hasbro should get on right away), ‘Star Wars: Rebels LEGO,’ and ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender.’
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This week Captain Owen treats us to a bunch of ‘Star Wars’ songs he made up and then we discuss cosplay and the upcoming Emerald City Comicon. We finish off by discussion our new clothes pin bucket system for daily chores.
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This week we talk about the second season of ‘Voltron: Legendary Defender’ as well as some of the new toys from Playmates!
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Happy Birthday Grandma Janice! This week we talk about ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Heroes a little more before talking about Captain Owen’s school and a science experiment they did.
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Happy New Year! This week we talk about Captain Owen’s Christmas presents which consisted mostly of ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Heroes with a little ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Avengers’ Hero Mashers thrown in.
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This week we talk about Captain Owen’s mom’s birthday, Thanksgiving, and do quite a bit of horsing around.
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In today’s episode, we read ‘The Usborne Big Book of Colors’ with Baby Hazel. We also discuss our Halloween adventures briefly.
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In today’s episode, we talk about Captain Owen’s outdoor preschool, Tiny Trees. He sings a couple of songs they’ve learned and talks about some of their daily activities. We then dive into talking about his current favorite toys: ‘Star Wars’ Mashers.
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Today we talk about Captain Owen’s friend Ames’ birthday party followed by our adventures at GeekGirlCon 2016.
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When we found these ‘Star Wars’ Minions figures, they immediately went on Captain Owen’s wish list. Grandma Janice couldn’t wait until Christmas though, and they arrived, much to Captain Owen’s ecstatic bouncing around the house, a few days later. Captain Owen’s mom and baby sister both make guest appearances this episode as we discuss that boys and girls can both like the same characters and toys.
Continue ReadingOn today’s episode we discuss our final Halloween costume selections before reading two ‘Star Wars’ Little Golden Books–‘I Am a Princess’ and ‘I Am a Sith.’
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On today’s episode, Captain Owen has his first guest–Gabby! Gabby and her mom were visiting Seattle and we all met up at the aquarium before coming back to our house to record the episode. We all read one of Owen and Gabby’s favorite books–‘Grandmother Fish.’
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This week we read some of Captain Owen’s new books starting with ‘DK Readers Level 2: Star Wars Rebels: Meet the Rebels.’ We also discuss our family Star Wars Rebels Halloween costumes again. We finish off by reading ‘DK Readers Level 2: LEGO Star Wars: Free the Galaxy.’
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This week we spend the majority of the episode discussing ‘Star Wars: Droid Tales’ before dipping in to potential Halloween costumes for our family (the cast of ‘Star Wars: Rebels’ is the current lead choice). We finish off discussing ‘Zootopia.’
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Sorry for the skip week–Baby Hazel plus a last minute business trip meant no time for a podcast last week. This week we jump right back in by reading a couple of the ‘Star Wars’ Little Golden Books. These are awesome little versions of the six movies (‘The Force Awakens’ one is on our wishlist). We always have a blast reading these together.
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Things have become a little crazy around here with the latest addition to our family, Baby Hazel! We start this episode with a sincere thank you to the folks over at Dreamworks for sending Captain Owen an awesome little care package of the die-cast ‘DinoTrux’ toys. Owen then sings a song to his new baby sister before holding her and making up some stories for her.
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In today’s episode we talk about our latest trip to Disneyland. We were anticipating Owen’s first time on ‘Star Tours’ but, despite his doctor’s measurements from two weeks ago, Owen wasn’t tall enough. We still had a blast though, and Owen decided that ‘The Jungle Cruise’ is his new favorite ride.
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First of all, happy Mother’s Day to all the mom parental units out there. Today we talk a little bit about Owen’s ‘Thomas the Train’ collection before diving in to his latest geekdom–‘Dinotrux.’ We read the original ‘Dinotrux’ book by Chris Gall before also discussing the Netflix cartoon and related toys.
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We saw ‘The Jungle Book’ yesterday and we had talk a little about Captain Owen’s initial reactions right after the movie. We discussed it again today and got very different feedback. We also sing a couple of songs and discuss Owen’s newest geekdom–‘DinoTrux.’
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Though we start today’s episode like so many others talking about Captain Owen’s ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Heroes toys, we dive into the ‘Transformers: The Ultimate Pop-Up Universe.’
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Today we start off talking about ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ but quickly veer off into discussing the Seattle Seahawks and then ‘Zootopia.’
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In today’s episode we talk about Captain Owen’s third birthday party! He got a ton of fun goodies including more Star Wars Galactic Heroes, Rainbow Dash and Applejack, The World of Eric Carle My First Smart Pad Library, Melissa & Doug See & Spell, and so much more that I’m sure we’ll be hearing about in future episodes.
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Today we talk about some of Captain Owen’s ‘Star Wars’ toys including a Darth Vader/Ahsoka two-pack we grabbed at Disneyland and a bunch of his Galactic Heroes figures. We then do a sort of re-telling of the Tatooine portion of ‘Return of the Jedi.’ We talk a little bit about the RunDisney Kid’s Races from both this year and last.
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Another Disneyland trip under our belts. We traveled to Anaheim for the second annual runDisney ‘Star Wars’ race weekend. We spent the Friday before our races in both Disney parks, and this episode contains two segments. First we chat for a few minutes about what rides we are going to go on before getting ready to head to the park (three of Owen’s favorite rides–Autopia, the railroad, and Jungle Cruise all ended up being closed for the day), and then the morning after we talk about what we did at the parks before heading to Owen’s Kids’ Race.
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Happy Anniversary! We have a new intro and a new graphic to celebrate the new year and our one-year anniversary. In this episode Captain Owen tells us a magic ‘Star Wars’ story, and we are joined by his Uncle Forest and Grandpa Rob.
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After braving the ‘Star Wars’ marathon on Thursday, we took Captain Owen to see ‘The Force Awakens’ on Friday morning. WARNING: This episode contains major spoilers for ‘The Force Awakens.’ DO NOT listen yet if you haven’t seen the movie and do not want to hear spoilers. However, if you do want to hear about a two-year-old discussing seeing his first ever ‘Star Wars’ movie in a theater, please listen!
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In today’s episode we read through Captain Owen’s newest favorite book–Star Wars:A Pop-up Guide to the Galaxy. Captain Owen does several of his Star Wars impressions, and we learn who his current favorite character is.
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In this week’s episode we read ‘Otto Goes to the Beach’ and talk about RunDisney kids’ races and Peter Pan. Then in the second segment Captain Owen sings the Winnie the Pooh song and the Tigger Song before we all do the OK to Wake Owl wake-up dance.
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