Redakai Truly Awesome

The boys have been pestering me for a while about the new craze Redakai, so you can imagine their entusiasm when I was given the opportunity to review them, in partnership with Blog Match and Spinmaster.

What is Redakai?
Redakai is a revolutionary new trading card game that’s fast and fun to play.

• Redakai comes to life with amazing Blast3D™ Technology!
• Redakai has innovative “Stack to Battle” gameplay. Stack attacks to damage your opponent, and stack monsters to power up your own defenses.
• Redakai is highly visual and intuitive, easy for kids (and parents) to learn, but a lifetime to master.
• There are two versions – Basic and Advanced game play. The Starter Set enables you to play the basic gameplay.
• For Boys 6-12 yrs old

Spinmaster say "Start your training to become a Kairu warrior with the Redakai Starter Pack! Face off against any opponent with your arsenal of animated attacks. Use the X-Reader to store your X-Drives, and then transform it into your battlefield for a one-on-one Kairu showdown! Master the power of Kairu with the Redakai Starter Pack! Comes with 16 X-Drives plus 7 bonus X-Drives! And a two in one battlefield/ storage case."


Lochlan our eldest boy had received a card with one of his magazines and they both watch it on TV, so they were already quite positive about Redakai.


They began the game by playing Rock Paper Scissors to decide who would start!

They loved the game, in fact I have never heard the two boys so quiet whilst playing a game! It starts off as an easy game that they both got the idea of quite easily, meaning they didn't get bored whilst they tried to work out how to play, they went straight into it.

Because it is a card game, they were quite evenly matched meaning that both of them won and lost, which is quite a big deal for a six year old..



The biggest asset to this game is that all of the cards can stack inside the battle zone, meaning none get lost and we are not constantly slipping over on shiny cards!!





They loved the way the health depleted by laying another card on top.
The entire family have tried the Redakai and it has been a resounding success, even with the girls, who usually do not have an interest in the boys card games.

The cards themselves are just amazing and look so cool, this would be a perfect gift for any little boy, and the bonus is it doesn't take up too much room!

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I am a failure!!

You may remember that I started on the fabulous Mutu System to get rid of my weight and be looking fab for my sister's blessing taking place on 12th May.

Well it started great, the first two weeks I ate sensibly, cut out the fizzy drinks and was starting to feel that actually I would be back into my clothes by then....

However, I have had to admit failure, the dress that I had for the blessing has been sent back and a larger size ordered, I am not happy with the way that I look and I take my hat off to all those ladies out there who have such amazing willpower and stick to their regimes.

As I have never had to worry about my weight very much before I have found this very challenging and difficult, it has done nothing for my self esteem and has resulted in a few emotional outbursts at both my husband and sister, which I am not very proud of, but I am finding it very hard to handle.

The reasons that I have been unable to stick to the Mutu, are hard to pinpoint, we have had five of the family birthdays in the last five weeks, resulting in lots of cake and birthday type dinners, Easter was a mass of chocolate and I have had so much going on in the family that I have found myself eating junk food or late at night once the children have gone to bed.

Reading this, they seem pretty lame excuses but I am determined that this will change, I am not happy with the way I look, therefore I need to do something about it, I am obviously not going to be thin for my sister's blessing but I have another goal, my son will turn one on 10th June and we have my husbands Rugby Summer Ball on 9th June, so I would at least like to feel good and half decent by then.

So, I shall throw out the junk food and plan healthy meals starting on Monday, any tips or words that will help, would be gratefully received xxx

Chicks update..batch two due11th April

After our fairly successful first hatch, the children waited eagerly for the second lot to arrive, this time we had eight eggs that looked pretty good.
Unlike the first hatch, I was a little more relaxed with these...

I was very surprised to find on 11th April that one of the eggs was already making good progress, at 10am Luna was fully out of her shell, she spent most of the day bumping into the other eggs, encouraging them to come out and play, we had lots with pips in, so at 6pm we had Ginny, with no signs of any others arriving yet, we all went off to bed, the following morning I was woken by Asa at 7.30am and told we had more new arrivals, three more to be exact!!

I was greeted by Sid, Fred and Bellatrix, technically Sid is not a Harry Potter character, but the chick had such crazy colouring, we thought it would be a great friend for little Scrat, who was still hanging in.

At 10.30am George was born, followed by Dumbledore and Tigger at 12.00 and 12.30, so we had a full 8 of 8 hatch which is brilliant

Tigger was named because of his Tiger like appearance, and they said he bounced around like Tigger!!

The Chicks update...batch one due 3rd April 2012

As you may have read, we decided to hatch some chicks to increase our brood, the first batch were due on 3rd April, so when the day arrived, there was no sign of anything, I had already experienced no eggs hatching when we used our broody hen two summers ago, so I was beginning to think it may be another failure...
When I came down on the morning of the 4th I put some clothes in the tumbledryer and heard cheeping!! I had to go and get the children as I thought I had imagined it...
From then onwards we started to progress, a few began having little pips out of them, but no actual chicks...
Asa and I had been watching a DVD and just before we went to bed at 1am on 5th April I noticed that one of the eggs had zipped all the way round, at that moment Kaide walked into the room bleary eyed and watched in amazement as our first chick made an appearance...

The children named this one Potter, as they are all obsessed with Harry Potter!







When I woke up the next morning I was greeted by two chicks, second one was named Diggory!

Throughout Thursday we were joined by Hermione, Weasley and Dobby.
We sadly had one that didn't make it, so I was on alert if any other chicks were struggling and had to make the decision whether to intervene.
Just before I went to bed there was one egg cheeping loudly but didn't seem to be able to get out, so I made the decision to help, after watching numerous You tube videos over the past three weeks, I was armed with tweezers and warm paper towels. The little chick we named Scrat, because it was so little and kept wobbling about, it reminded me of the Ice Age films!
Finally at 1am our last chick of that hatch arrived named Malfoy.