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Thursday, December 06, 2007 Familybits, Fun Finds

I have been hemorrhaging money this last week, what with losing my second and last pair of glasses in Chicago, tax bills, EDD claims (they finally sent me a check but now that I’m working I have to send it back!), Christmas, Christmas, and, oh, Christmas.

Also, my inbox is filling rapidly (see, sometimes it would be good to have a storage limit) with wonderful emails from people I know and some I don’t, all with fabulous holiday shopping scoop or asking if my kids are the right age to play with something. See, they span four years and two genders, so we’re a perfect test lab.

For instance, Nintendo sent me a boys’ and a girls’ game intended for ages 3-6, and all three of them, five, seven, and nine, were totally obsessed with both games. Do the math: two games, three children, one Nintendo DS. Good times. But! I’m able to give them a glowing report, but no specifics because I am not allowed within the Circle of Nintendo Trust. I suppose that alone recommends it well enough. So, my review of the Smart Girl’s Playhouse (I only know the name because someone left the case on my desk) and the Smart Boy’s… game… goes thusly:

Hi Robert,

The kids are LOVING the games! In fact, I couldn’t get near them for the longest time because there are three kids, two games, and one Nintendo DS. Absolute mayhem. So:

1. I guess nine and a half isn’t too old, even for the boy to play the girl’s game! I couldn’t believe it.
2. Both boys liked both games and of course poor Daphne, the five year old, can hardly get a turn in to save her life.
3. She has a Game Boy but lost her charger.
4. I just got chargers for the two Game Boys so that there won’t be so much fighting over your games, and now the seven year old has lost the DS charger.
5. I so appreciate your sending them, and I keep telling them I have to sit down and interview them about the games to get specifics but they’d rather PLAY than TALK about them.

In conclusion, if I can’t get anything out of them this week I’ll post something along the lines of: none of them would give the others turns regardless of age or gender, they were that addictive. : )

Mindy

Oh! here’s Logan now. He says, “They are pretty fun, especially for younger kids. The coloring was fun for Daphne on the Girl’s game, and I liked being able to draw whatever came into my head. On the Boy’s game, we liked exterminating monsters and on the Girl’s we liked feeding hamsters.”