| Starting Weight | 205 |
| Current Weight | 186.5 |
| Goal Weight | 185 |
| Lost | 18.5 |
| Left Until Goal | 1.5 |
Thanks to a week back on my weight loss plan, it looks like I’m back on track. My weight has dropped back down and my goal is within sight. Even though my son’s birthday looms over this coming weekend (and thus the presence of cake and other goodies which I’m sure to partake in), I think reaching my goal is definitely doable.
Click on the photo and look at the larger version. Can you come up with a good caption to this photo? All I can think about, when I see this, is “If I tried that, I’d be in traction for a year!” I apologize for any photo graininess. This is a crop of a much larger photo of the circus action. More photos *will* follow!
Yes, I know this is a day early, but I just couldn’t wait. Click to see it full size.
For all those of you who would like a copy of this for your kids to give out for Mother’s Day, here’s a PDF you can print.
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. This is when comic book stores across North America give away select comic books for free. We went last year and the boys had a blast collecting and then reading through the comic books.
This year, will be a bit more complicated. B’s going to meet someone for lunch tomorrow. This means she’ll be out for most of the time that Free Comic Book Day runs. The complication is that I don’t usually drive on Saturdays for religious reasons. My geekiness (“must take boys for free comic books”) is battling my religious side (“must observe Shabbat”). Who will win? To be honest, I still don’t know.
Meanwhile, I’ve been introducing my boys to various superheroes. They love the Avengers (Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, Ant Man, Wasp, Thor, Black Panther and Hawkeye), Young Justice (Robin, Superboy, Miss Martian, Kid Flash and Aqualad) and Batman on the TV. They have also been introduced to the Green Lantern. My boys just love superheroes and would love to pour through new comic books. Somehow I’ll have to make this work for them.
My Aloha Friday question for today is: Who is your favorite superhero and why?
Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the McLinky there if you are participating.
Aloha #86
When you’re a geeky dad raising two geeky kids, nothing can be better than sharing some superhero lore with your kids. Unless, of course, you get to play with superhero themed toys with your kids and your friends’ kids in a park on a sunny spring day! That’s Geeky Dad Nirvana!
To facilitate the party, Mattel and MomSelect provided me with a big box of Green Lantern goodies including some figures (Hal Jordan and Tomar Re), a pair of Colossal Cannons, some Green Lantern comic books, a DVD of Green Lantern: First Flight, and some power rings.
I had seen the movie before and knew that is, while exceptional, wasn’t appropriate for kids my sons’ age. I also pre-read the comic book and found this to be inappropriate for their age. (There was a lot of blood and people being killed.) Again, it was a great comic book, but was just a little dark for kids in the 3 – 7 age range. Were my oldest son 5 years older, I would have had no qualms about giving it to him to read.
On the morning of the party, we packed everything up (except for the DVD, but including the comics) and headed to a local park. We brought some snacks and drinks with us and met up with our friends: Christina, Tom and TJ, Ali, Zach and Ro, Irene, Ben and Garrett and Laura, Doug and Isaac.
Each kid that attended the party got a power ring and every adult got a comic book. (Well, 1 per couple). I decided that opening the figures in the busy playground was a recipe for lost toys, so we kept those for parting gifts. Instead, we broke out the cannons.
Now, you may recall that I previously reviewed the Colossal Cannon and deemed risk of injury as a downside. I need to modify that review now. As we fired the discs at the playground, I noticed something interesting. They were flying far and fast but seemed more like they were floating discs than injury-causing projectiles. Perhaps it was the presence of wind or the open air rather than indoors close quarters, but the toys seemed much less dangerous and more fun outside. Indeed, on more than one occasion, a projectile hit one of the boys and never did they sustain any injury.
We (or the boys) would fire the projectiles and the boys would run around trying to collect them all. Other than some tense moments where we thought we lost a few of the discs (green disc on green grass = hard to spot), we had a blast.
If you noticed that the boys were both wearing green shirts, good eye. B (who wasn’t photographed) and I had green shirts on as well though mine was a darker green that looks more grey in the photos. Green shirts, green grass, Green Lanterns!
Of course, being a park with a playground, we didn’t limit ourselves to Green Lantern toys in the fields. The boys played in the playground, in the sandbox and even used their rings to navigate a hedge maze.
By the end of the day, I was exhausted, but it was a good kind of exhausted. Of course, my muscles may have been tired, but my geeky heart was soaring because another piece NHL’s geeky education was in place. He could now recite the Green Lantern oath!
In brightest day, In blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil’s might,
Beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!
Disclaimer: Mattel and MomSelect provided me with the Green Lantern toys/comics/DVDs to throw the party. I didn’t receive any other compensation and all opinions expressed above are my own.
