- Dina and I entertaining 7 under-5 year olds that mostly didn’t speak English for Alex’s 4th birthday party was orders of magnitude better than I thought it would be. Pictures coming soon. All in all it was a lot of fun.
- Alex has Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Kart. He’s started complaining that, since he’s four, he should have four Mario games and is lamenting the fact that Bowser, the villain in the Mario games, stole his “Mario with the hearts” game (Super Paper Mario). We hid it from him last year since the 2D-3D flipping was confusing for him and there’s too much text to read for him to be able to play it himself.
- It anticipation of our upcoming vacation… and because he’s four, we’re putting our feet down and toilet training him. 2 days, 3 pee accidents, 1 poop accident. Ugh.
- Arianna is intent on keeping up with her brother. She’s walking really well. She started later than Alex did, but is much sturdier. Dina thinks it’s because she has to resist getting tackled by her big brother all the time.
Dear God, why am I going to fall backwards again? From London, June 2010 - While she doesn’t sign as much as Alex did (we spend less time teaching her), she definitely lets us know what she wants. At supper she demanded a fork and then proceeded to eat with it. We’re screwed.
Kids Update
2010-06-20 22:06
Assuming you want to encourage Alex’s Mario addiction, Super Mario World is an excellent choice (available via VC) if he hasn’t already played it. The difficulty curve is gradual and the text can all be ignored pretty much.
I think the goal is to have him play less, not more video games :-/
I find that super mario brothers wii is great for kids. At 5.5 can play it really well and at 2.5 is starting to be able to control the characters. And the best is that we can all play at the same time and the kids can go in a bubble if it gets too hard or annoying…