New Millennium Falcon coming to a Galaxy near you!

In keeping with today's Star Wars theme when you think of fantastic & iconic spaceships the Millennium Falcon should be the first one that pops into your mind, if not, hopefully it's the second.

T-Shirt Thursday #30DaysofStarWarsShirts

Today we are going to start something different for T-shirt Thursday.  Recently this Fandad moved and in moving I realized that I had a lot of Star Wars shirts. This got me thinking about the "30 Day Challenges" you see people post around the web, so I decided starting today, July 17 until August 16 I will do 30 Days of Star Wars Shirts.

Each day I will post a picture of me in a Star Wars shirt that I own and a little description about each shirt.  Follow me on this adventure and let's see how this goes!

Today's shirt is based on the iconic poster for Episode IV and is such a fantastic image. I can't remember when I got this, but it's one of my favorite Star Wars shirts.

Who? Me tired?

How many of us have seen this look before? 

                                                     

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 17 minute preview

On July 7th, this Fandad was lucky enough to get into the IMAX 3D First Look at Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy and witness 17 minutes of James Gunn's space drama that will transport fans of the Marvel universe to...well, another universe.

What did I think of this footage? Was a talking raccoon on the screen believable? Was I disappointed that I only saw 17 minutes of footage? Keep reading and I'll tell you my thoughts.

T-Shirt Thursday!

Today's T-shirt comes to us from our friends at Target.  I recently received this shirt as a gift on Father's Day and the artwork on it just made me smile.

This Star Wars + Spanish mash-up has the familiar Darth Vader helmet done up with bones, Empire symbols and spider webs.  What I really like about this shirt is the details in the artwork. The use of the the Empire symbols as the eyes and the small evil skull between them.  The bones that are scattered throughout the design give it a nice touch of evil.

If you were to ask me what my favorite part of the shirt is, it would be the wording at the base of the neck "yo soy tu padre". That part needs no translation to fans of the series.

Highlight below if you need a translation:
It says "I am your father" in Spanish.

Pick up this shirt at your local Target or click the link above to order it online.

Until next week, thanks for reading.

What do you WANT???

Parents, we have all experienced this scenario: your child walks up to you, starts mumbling something, keeps going on and on about nothing then points to a candy bar or a fruit snack or an ice cream bar, etc, etc, and then it hits you: they're asking for something, but not being straight forward about it.

Every now and then when my little girl wants something she'll walk up to my wife or to myself and say "I wish I could have a (insert snack or toy here), I really wish I could have one" To which we both replay, "If you want something, just ask for it!" It might sound mean to say that, but she has to learn how to ask for what she wants.

This got me thinking about ways some kids don't ask for something straight out.  I started to wonder how creative other kids were so I posed this question to my fellow dad bloggers: "Do you kids beat around the bush to ask for something instead of just asking for it and how do they go about doing it?" and some of the answers I got were pretty hilarious.

Toy Story and Teaching

It's been over a week since my last day with my students and I didn't know how to share it with you.  If you remember from my previous post, I was not renewed for the following year and I haven't even told my students about it.

I decided that I would tell them on this day, but as soon as I arrived to school some students were asking me if what they heard was true.  I knew at that moment this was going to be a long day.