Synn and I have been watching a lot of Sesame Street lately on the computer with Tristan, who, by the way, stares transfixed by the singing and dancing.
We’ve even caught him humming along to some of the tunes, although it sounds like a tone deaf someone humming at this point in time and nothing like the Pavarotti that we thought we had. Sigh.
It does seem like he’s keen on being a Birdketeer, though:
The grin on his face when we flap his arms is hilarious.
Oh, and my current favourite:
Gotta love chickens that know how to chill by the beach.
The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
I watch this with amusement and can’t help but imagine that Tristan would swallow his marshmallow even before the tester left the room and hand her the plate for seconds, lol.
To those people who cannot believe my adorable son can actually be annoying, I give you proof:
Honestly, he is the only guy I know who can’t keep still in a chair. It’s always either because he’s bored, or because he can’t wait for the food to arrive.
And when he decides he doesn’t want to swallow whatever is in his mouth, out it goes. You’d need the reflexes of an F1 driver to catch the fallout. Sigh.
When news broke that Sideshow had gotten the Turtles license and sneaked a WIP Donatello, I got excited.
Really excited, hehe.
While I never got the chance to read the comics, I grew up with the TMNT cartoons and watched the live action movies growing up. So it was only natural that I absolutely have to collect this line of statues.
Looking at the painted sneaks, there was some worry about whether Sideshow would release the statue with the cartoon accurate painted bandanas or the comic accurate red ones. But when preorder day came around, that worry disappeared:
We were going to get both!
So obviously, I tried and managed to get my preorder for the exclusive in (coloured bandana FTW!!):
While the pose might not look very interesting on its own, I chanced upon the picture below:
The Donatello pose looks exactly the same and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Sideshow is basing the other statues on this artwork. If so, this set is THE turtles set to own. I wonder if Sideshow will make a Master Splinter to go with this set. *prays hard*
Of course, this means I now have to camp in front of the PC whenever the pre-order for the other turtles come up so that I can complete the cartoon accurate set.
Looking the the pictures really brings back memories of my Donatello action figure. I never owned all 4 of them because an action figure cost a pretty penny then.
There are many moments in my life that I wonder why don’t I win lucky draw contests more often.
And then there are the times I wonder why when I do, I can’t really use the prizes.
Well, this time I’d won a furniture set from Aussino. I’d be happier if it were adult sized, but all they had were pint sized ones. In any case, we decided it would be in everyone’s interest to keep the furniture in cold storage until Tristan could actually use it.
We decided that that day had finally arrived, and spent some time arranging it around his official new room.
The Firing Squad Got Ready
The cool thing about the set is that it’s themed, and has got all the items that we wouldn’t normally buy, like the toy chest, floor standing lamps and book shelf.
Cookie Monster Finds New Friends
We even managed to find wall stickers to complement the Jungle theme going in his room, lol.
Who Doesn't Love Stickers
The little desk needed some assembly, but once taken care of, fit in splendidly, as did the accompanying little chairs. It really made the room look like a place my little boy could live and grow up in.
Christmas Pooh Tried To Reach For The Magna Doodle
Interestingly enough, Tristan seemed to know immediately this was to be his new room, and there didn’t seem to be any confusion for him when we subsequently referred to this room as his.
@mrbrown I want a holiday from mrbrown cos my wife and I need a reason to get away from our terrorist 2yr old, otherwise we'd never go on 1. 3 days ago
