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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We start today’s episode with a tea party with all of Captain Owen’s animals along with Darth Tater ( the Mr. Potato Head Darth Vader). We then talk about our trip to IKEA before a rampaging Owen crashes everyone at the party.
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Today we talk about the planets in our solar system (and include Pluto), send our friend Gabby well-wishes, and then play with blocks and our imaginations, and finally we briefly talk about one of our favorite Disney films, Robin Hood.
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Geek Chic is, by now, well-known for their custom made to order high-end gaming tables and furniture
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This week we play with Captain Owen’s ‘Star Wars’ Galactic Heroes Millenium Falcon and Darth Vader that he got from his Grandma Janice on Force Friday!
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This episode we briefly talk about Captain Owen’s new big boy room–it’s still in the works but expect a lot more about it including a full write up. Then we spend the rest of the episode playing with a Melissa & Doug pirate puzzle–Captain Owen’s first 48-piece puzzle!
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This episode Captain Owen starts us off with singing a little “Baby Beluga.” We then talk about his Batman Painting Book, a trip to the zoo with Papa and Gigima (his great grandparents), and a trip to the EMP Museum and the ‘Star Wars and the Power of Costume,’ ‘What’s Up, Doc?,’ and ‘Infinite Worlds’ exhibits. We finish off the episode playing Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, or as Captain Owen calls it–Dog and Ostrich.
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This episode we spend the entire show reading from Richard Scarry’s ‘Best First Book Ever!’ It’s a pretty long and detailed book so we spend the entire time on it today and still didn’t read close to everything!
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Lucky number 13! Today is my birthday so we start off with Owen singing happy birthday to me and talking about his dreams of purple scooters.
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The Disneyland episode! We recently took a trip to Disneyland, and Owen and I sat down to discuss the big day.
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In this episode we start off playing with Owen’s Uncle Goose Alphabet Blocks. He’s at the point now where he is being very creative with them–throw a couple blocks together and its a pirate ship or giraffe. We then played with our Rory’s Story Cubes MAX. We don’t have any of the other sets, just the MAX set which has over-sized story dice. They are a ton of fun!
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Double Digits! In this episode we start off playing with Owen’s latest toy–‘Tiggly Shapes.’ Then we read his favorite new book, ‘Monster ABC,’ by Kyle and Derek Sullivan, currently featured on Kickstarter. After I read it to Owen, he wanted to read it to me (with a little help). Finally, we sign off by singing happy birthday to Owen’s Oma Lennie.
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A long weekend! In this episode we sing “Three Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” and then have a little tickle party. Then we break out Owen’s new ‘Marvel Chutes and Ladders Super Hero Squad’ that he got from his aunt Michelle and aunt Wendi. We sing the clean-up song when we’re all done, and then Owen asks to watch an episode of ‘Tabletop’ with Wil Wheaton. After watching the episode, we quickly added ‘Takenoko’ to our wish list.
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In this episode we play with a kitchen Owen got from one of our neighbors through the Buy Nothing South Seattle Group. He cooks us up some food and even serves us some beer. There’s a little shout out to Ruby Roth and her ‘V is for Vegan’ book as well.
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Today we play with Owen’s stuffed trashcan raccoon, an underwater animal puzzle, Pete (that’s what we call his binky–it has a monkey attached to it), his alphabet puzzle, and talk about teamwork and asking nicely for things.
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In today’s episode we sing “Five Little Monkies Jumping on the Bed,” talk about hanging out with Sebastian and Sarah, discuss Captain Owen’s first ‘Gundam’ model kit and first Funko Pop vinyl toy, Nemo, his alphabet puzzle from Grandpa Rob, and say farewell to Grandma Pat who passed away last week.
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In today’s episode we mainly talk about Emerald City Comic Con, which I wrote a whole post about, but we also discuss the zoo, the Zoo Webs card game, grandpa’s visit, his special pillow from Grandma Shelly, and a visit to Oma’s house.
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In today’s episode we talk about Captain Owen and Sebastian’s second birthday party, robots, the aquarium, Octonauts (again), Captain Owen’s new baby doll – Baby Sam, his birthday dinner at Cafe Flora, an abbreviated reading of ‘The Gruffalo,’ the ABC song, Daniel Tiger, and the Oh, David! books.
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