Comments on: stay on target http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:42:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: maura http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1746 maura Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:30:54 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1746 Let me know how it goes! Funny you should mention sequel of doom...J and I were just thinking of rewatching that ourselves (we have the boxed set) to see if it's REALLY as bad as we remember it. Let me know how it goes!

Funny you should mention sequel of doom…J and I were just thinking of rewatching that ourselves (we have the boxed set) to see if it’s REALLY as bad as we remember it.

]]> By: Anne http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1745 Anne Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:47:42 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1745 Not yet -- 8 is the date tho! A week away!!! He can't see Sequel of Doom ever, as long as we have something to say about it. #3 maybe. All this is, of course, leading up to the May premiere! They always release these for Ben's b-day! Not yet — 8 is the date tho! A week away!!!

He can’t see Sequel of Doom ever, as long as we have something to say about it. #3 maybe.

All this is, of course, leading up to the May premiere! They always release these for Ben’s b-day!

]]> By: maura http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1744 maura Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:25:50 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1744 True, true, but still...maybe when he's 8. Has Max seen it? I'm not unconvinced that Spiderwick isn't giving him some bad dreams (not that he's mentioned anything, but some nights he's come into our room awfully early). True, true, but still…maybe when he’s 8. Has Max seen it? I’m not unconvinced that Spiderwick isn’t giving him some bad dreams (not that he’s mentioned anything, but some nights he’s come into our room awfully early).

]]> By: Anne http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1743 Anne Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:14:03 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1743 But he needs to know about archaeology! But he needs to know about archaeology!

]]> By: maura http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1742 maura Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:10:39 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1742 Well, okay, I will admit to a <i>teeny</i> bit of exaggeration for humorous effect. It's actually not so much that we were not letting him see it as that we kept forgetting to show it to him! We had the videotapes a long time ago but I think we got rid of them because they were the new versions. Then we had Netflix but we cancelled it when I went to library school to save $ and time. Then Gus got really into video games and didn't seem to want to watch TV/videos... It was only when I finished school + we reupped w/Netflix + we started doing movie night that we realized that he'd never seen it. And it's totally fine -- we are not worried about him seeing them all. Except for exposing him to the crap that is Jar-jar, of course, who knows what that could do to a tender young mind! :) Now <i>Raiders</i>, OTOH, no way! J floated it a little while ago and I was like "are you crazy?!" The melting faces? "Throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip!" That shit freaked me out when I was 12! Well, okay, I will admit to a teeny bit of exaggeration for humorous effect. It’s actually not so much that we were not letting him see it as that we kept forgetting to show it to him!

We had the videotapes a long time ago but I think we got rid of them because they were the new versions. Then we had Netflix but we cancelled it when I went to library school to save $ and time. Then Gus got really into video games and didn’t seem to want to watch TV/videos…

It was only when I finished school + we reupped w/Netflix + we started doing movie night that we realized that he’d never seen it. And it’s totally fine — we are not worried about him seeing them all. Except for exposing him to the crap that is Jar-jar, of course, who knows what that could do to a tender young mind! :)

Now Raiders, OTOH, no way! J floated it a little while ago and I was like “are you crazy?!” The melting faces? “Throw me the idol, I’ll throw you the whip!” That shit freaked me out when I was 12!

]]> By: Anne http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1741 Anne Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:36:00 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1741 We were so careful about what Max got to watch. All that is now shot to hell with the little ones. (But they go to bed earlier than he does, and have very few pictures taken of them, so it's even.) A. has already watched (well, as much as he watches anything -- it was babysitter night & Max had this as his movie) Attack of the Clones. He loves/hates Boba Fett's dad Jengo. He also loves the game Jenga. They're all related, I know not how. We were so careful about what Max got to watch. All that is now shot to hell with the little ones. (But they go to bed earlier than he does, and have very few pictures taken of them, so it’s even.)

A. has already watched (well, as much as he watches anything — it was babysitter night & Max had this as his movie) Attack of the Clones. He loves/hates Boba Fett’s dad Jengo. He also loves the game Jenga. They’re all related, I know not how.

]]> By: Anissa http://mauraweb.com/blog/2008/04/05/stay-on-target/#comment-1740 Anissa Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:22:16 +0000 http://mauraweb.com/blog/?p=257#comment-1740 Wow, you are a little late on this. And I am surprised. Perhaps it is still the bitter disappointment that Lucas screwed our generation. Once a year or so Karl tries to make Mathilda watch Star Wars. She is not into it and why should she be - no one wears pink or sparkles. Dexter, on the other hand, is getting into it and I see Karl's anticipation growing for the future action figure collection and the ever prized Star Wars themed birthday party. He is practicing his gaming skills on a plug and play game shaped like the Millennium Falcon though he still prefers the computer games on NickJr. Wow, you are a little late on this. And I am surprised. Perhaps it is still the bitter disappointment that Lucas screwed our generation.
Once a year or so Karl tries to make Mathilda watch Star Wars. She is not into it and why should she be - no one wears pink or sparkles. Dexter, on the other hand, is getting into it and I see Karl’s anticipation growing for the future action figure collection and the ever prized Star Wars themed birthday party. He is practicing his gaming skills on a plug and play game shaped like the Millennium Falcon though he still prefers the computer games on NickJr.

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