Our Family's Favorite Super Bowl Sunday Commercial: Volkswagen Force

I love the Super Bowl, but not for all of the fanfare related to the actual game...actually enjoy seeing the creative, crazy commercials...and sometimes, depending on the teams playing, I care about the game a bit too. Since some of my brothers are Pittsburgh Steelers fans as we grew up in Pennsylvania, go Steelers!

This year, you can preview the commercials on a website called Devour.Com/Super Bowl.

Tonight, as we were all just hanging out as a family, my husband happened to find Devour.Com/Super Bowl

Dear Hubby previewed the commercials and then, he showed a few he thought I would like...
We both then decided that the boys would love to see The Volkswagen Force.
We were right! They loved the commercial and wanted to see it again and again. If we could go buy the "all new Volkswagen 2012 Passat", Little Bro would want to wear his Darth Vader costume and do the same thing...

Guess loads of others also like the Volkswagen Force commercial, as shown in this article from I4U News.
Both Big Bro and Little Bro like Star Wars, although they mostly know Star Wars through playing with Star Wars Lego sets, watching the various Star Wars documentaries, going to Disney and trying out some of the Star Wars themed attractions there.

Seeing the Volkswagen commercial made me think back to when Big Bro was a little guy and we went to Disney and he was selected from the audience and got to be a member of the Jedi Training Academy...here is the You Tube clip of Big Bro as a Jedi Youngling:




Well, just thought that I would share the clip with you. Hope that you will enjoy seeing a very shy little guy going up against Darth Vader. Big Bro has usually prefers to be the good guy when he plays...Little Bro kind of goes back and forth between wanting to be the good guy and the bad guy...all in good fun, though...

Afterward, Big Bro got a Jedi Training Academy shirt that finally fits him now, nearly three and a half years later!!!

Both boys also made light sabers that trip and both were happy to have light sabers.
Since then, our family has several more Star Wars themed Lego sets, costumes, and toys.
Many weekends have been spent with Daddy and the boys building various Lego Star Wars Lego sets, as well as other Star Wars themed play things. Dear Hubby loved Star Wars as a boy so it is very fun for him to have two sons who also love Star Wars, too.

Will be neat when they are old enough to see the various Star Wars movies with their Daddy...

Have a happy weekend with your family!

Making Memories & Montessori Monday - Our Version of Summer Camp

Peanut butter cup time...this time, our version of summer camp (including some Montessori inspired works), plus some memories in the making...

We are having such an awesome summer! 

Memories in the making, to be sure...

Such fun times with some wonderful friends who came to visit us for a week, as we packed in Disney, the Florida Aquarium, Clearwater Beach...

We also had fun shopping, playing at the pools, parks, and water parks in our area, and going out to eat, plus some fun hanging out, playing at our home, and just kicking back and relaxing a bit, too....

This past week, we had to take it down a notch and get back into our more regular summer groove...namely,  doing our version of "summer camp."

Our summer camp is basically a looser version of our school year.

(Pictured above: bead stair hanger work, counting 0-20 work.)

Both boys still select their work the night before, and they still get started as they normally would during our school year.

(Pictured: sorting shapes work, patterning work, rhyming work with language objects,  counting bead stair extension with frog counters, Draw Write Now Frog art and copywork, dart frogs sorting work and dart frog book, block tower work, sound cylinders work, CVC words with language objects and movable alphabet work)

The main difference is that in addition to our Montessori inspired works, there are more non-Montessori materials such as board games, card games, extra art projects, etc. than we normally have during the school year.

Plus, there is some additional free play time added into the mix, to play outside and to catch and / or observe all of the little critters in our neighborhood, along with some down time to watch a family movie, to do some cooking projects, and to just hang out and relax...

 For us, our summer camp schedule is a much more loose, go with the flow sort of schedule...

We get out and enjoy the sunshine when we can and then, we hang out and relax when either the weather is too hot or humid, or it is a downpour.

Sinus and ear infections have kept creeping back into our summer, so that has necessitated some time to just chill out, as there have been days when we have not felt up to par.

When you feel dizzy, your face, ears, and head feel like they are going to burst, and your sinuses and ears are so full that your teeth hurt, putting in a nice family friendly movie is not all bad...

It actually can be quite calming and relaxing, although we do not do that during the school year. 

(Pictured: Little Bro's art project, cool bilingual English - Spanish card game called Green Alligators, having fun in the sun at the beach, Big Bro and Little Bro eating Popsicle treats, Boys trying to pull out King Arthur's Sword at Disney's Magic Kingdom, having fun splashing at the park in the water fountains, checking out the hot air balloons that fly over our home almost daily each morning, Big Bro and Little Bro catching lizards and frogs, as well as watching a grasshopper and an alligator swimming by at a nearby pond.)

We are enjoying our summer, so much so that the happy times will shine through more than remembering the sinus and ear troubles we have had lately. Ear tubes may make their way back in to the scene, but we know that those aren't all bad, as they worked like charms for both boys the last time around, so if it comes to that again, well, BRING IT ON...

But really, when we think back to this summer, we will remember the times spent doing things we love, not times we had to spend laying on the sofa and watching movies.

Well, happy Monday and happy summer to everyone!

Please be sure to check out:

Jennifer's Making Memories Monday link-ups,
Jody's Montessori Monday at Mommy Moment link-ups,
and Nicole's Montessori Monday link-ups.












 Please also be sure to check out my last post about a light table items swap! 

Even if you don't have a light table, if you have a decent light source such as a large window that gets plenty of sun during the day, you could use the items for displaying in your window.