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October 29th - November 25th, 2012

Watched
Let's Play videos - Portal, Minecraft, Happy Wheels, Scribblenauts Unlimited, PBGamer vids, Tobuscus vids, CupQuake vids, Northernlion vids, and AtomicMari vids - YouTube
Psych - Netflix
Yogscast & YogsLab - YouTube
Various game reviews - YouTube
Wreck It Ralph - movie - AMC Loews Theatre
iCarly - Netflix
CupQuake crafting videos - YouTube
Homestarrunner.com
Dresden Files - Netflix
Prototype This - Netflix
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Netflix
Total Drama Island - Netflix
Eureka - Netflix
Warehouse 13 - Netflix
Alphas - Netflix
Smash Lab - Netflix
The Gumby Show - Netflix
Sgt. Frog - Netflix
One Way Out - Netflix
Life's Funniest Moments - Netflix
Smosh Pit Weekly - YouTube
Vi Hart videos - YouTube


Played
WarioWare D.I.Y. - 3DS
Minecraft - Computer
Whizzball - Online
Contour - Online
Steamlands - Online
ModNation Racers - PS3
Little Big Planet 2 - PS3
Doodle Screw - iPad
LEGO Creationary - iPad
Electric Box - iPad
Calculator games (playing w/ square numbers)
Singing Fingers - iPad
Where's My Water - iPad
Star Wars Lightsaber Duels - Wii
Super Paper Mario - Wii
Smule Magic Piano - iPad
Draw Something - KindleFire
Triple Town - KindleFire
Wonder Putt - Online

Read
LEGO Club Magazine
Game Informer Magazine
Ranger Rick Magazine
NatGeo Kids Magazine
Happy to be eating Nugget in a Biscuit
Researched
Toby Turner aka Tobuscus for our Nugget in a Biscuit adventure
Bento boxes - looked at lots of pictures for inspiration and menu/shopping list ideas

Discussed
Square numbers
Nutrition fact labels
A whole bunch of stuff, but I didn't write any of it down :-)
One of the many things we tried during our Asian food taste test
Wrote
Notes, plans, & schematics for games
Short story (wrote & illustrated)

Listened
Musical pictures made using Singing Fingers iPad app
Music played on Smule Magic Piano iPad app
Music made using Smule MadPad Remix Studio iPad app
Music made using Smule AutoRap iPad app
Dubstep and other electronic music at Thee Cassini Division (W's music studio)

Created/Built
Musical pictures made using Singing Fingers iPad app
Music made using Smule MadPad Remix Studio iPad app
Music made using Smule AutoRap iPad app
Beatboxing
Level design and creation - Little Big Planet 2
Microgames - WarioWare D.I.Y.
Race tracks - ModNation Racers
Drawing (pen & paper and KindleFire app)
Helped Mum make some watercolour artist trading cards (ATCs)
watercoloured ATCs
Went/Community
Yokoso
AMC Loews Theatre
Java House
Five Deer Hill (the Gyres' home)
Romp n Roll, Glenshaw, PA - Steel City Roller Derby home bout
Hokkaido - Thanksgiving dinner :-)
Hanging out w/ River @ Five Deer Hill
Health/PE/Safety
Waiting on his Orabrush (tongue brush) to arrive
Dancing
Walking
Helped revise menu of foods he likes to eat
Helped make shopping lists
Getting more adventurous with food (ie Nugget in a Biscuit & Asian Food Taste Test)

Other
Massively awesome food experiments (must check out these two posts): Nugget in a Biscuit and Asian Food Taste Test
Helped William celebrate his 33rd Birthday!

Quotable
"I just calculated that this vanilla Tootsie Roll is 2 1/2 Skittles long."
"Oh, so square numbers are numbers you can actually make a square out of! So cool!"
Nugget in a Biscuit plate

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