ABC Mouse

So I finally broke down and looked into ABCMouse.com for my kids. So far it seems like a good deal. It is supposed to be $79 for the year. You can have up to 3 children linked on the site with their own "classrooms". They can choose thier own teacher to talk to them.

 

They have different levels for your children. I have a 5 year old, 4 year old, and a 2 1/2 year old. They are all at different levels, but I started them all off on the Toddler Time. Billy has been rolling through the lessons, so I will move him up to pre-school next week.

 





Beau only wants to play games to set up his hamster cage, and Baby girl is working on puzzles.

Right now, ABCmouse is running an offer for a month's free trial period. I signed up and after I pressed submit they sent me an offer for a discount as a first time user. So my total fee was April as a free month. So my payments are made in May for $59. I think thats a pretty sweet deal! It's a total of $60 for 3 children. Which means for a year of learning activities I pay $20 for each child. That is not a bad deal at all. You can also use the device on up to 4 items. The three children can be using the websites on computers/laptops and the parent can be working on it too. There is an option to have a special class work, the parent can pick and choose what their child should learn. It's awesome so far!

Hotel Transylvania - for kids?

Ok, so back story, My oldest son Billy HATES scary movies. He will cry or scream and ask you to turn it off. Sometimes the movies isn't even that scary like Disney's Brave, he really doesn't like the bear scenes.



So I wasn't quite sure how he would react to seeing Hotel Transylvania, but my other two kiddies wanted to watch it. So we put it in our Xbox player to watch in the living room. I told him he was welcome to sit down and try to watch it. If at any point it became too scary, he could leave and watch tv in his room. He ended up sitting with me and watched the whole movie! He loved it and didn't find anything scary. Like most films these days, there were a few inuendos for the adults to catch, but I was pretty happy with the overall child factor of the movie. It's been voted on in my house that all 3 children want to purchase it. =)

New way to watch your favorite shows!

So my best friend turned me on to Series Cravings a few months ago. They don't have all the shows, but they do have popular ones like True Blood, Dexter, Lost Girl, and even shows like The Walking Dead.

So I was able to catch up on The Walking Dead, because I barely came in at Season 3. I've watched Lost Girl on cable since it came out. I've never sat down for Dexter, but I was able to almost completly catch up on The Big Bang Theory!

They have some other shows that I've never heard of like Revolution. I just started watching the series. It's pretty good. Apparently it started on NBC, so you can check your local listing for it. It started again on March 25th. For the entire information on it, check out the NBC homepage or its Wiki page.

Chasing Mavericks

I decided to hit up the Red Box by our local store and rented Chasing Mavericks today.

 

I have to admit I liked it! I love Gerard Butler and his co-lead Jonny Weston was amazing. He really reminded me of the actor from the Blue Lagoon.

 

Chasing Mavericks is about "When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it." according to IMBd.

 

I would definitely suggest renting or even buying this film! Some of the movie story lines and biography are different, but its still an over all must see.