A few Saturdays ago  (5/1/2010) was Free Comic Book Day. It’s a day when all the participating comic book shops across the nation give out free comic books to anybody thats willing to come down and get them. Free Comic Book Day is the first Saturday in May.

This is the first time the kids and I have ever been to a Free Comic Book Day. This fine event took place at my local comic book shop (four color fantasies). They had comic book characters walking around taking pictures with everybody, comic book artists and inkers signing things and giving away free on the spot drawings of pretty much anything you wanted, Free hot dogs, nachos, free face painting, and a bounce house.

Zach and Syd got to spend some time in the bounce house, then they got their faces panted. Zach went with spiderman. Syd got a butterfly (what else would she get?). The kids also got free movie posters 5 comic books each and other nick nacks.

Lastly I had one of the artists sketch out Zach and Syd (see the images above). He charged just 5 bucks each.

All in all it was a wonderful time and it only cost me 10 bucks that i didn’t need to spend. If you have kids I would encourage you to take  your kids out next May for the awesome Free Comic Book Day!

Today a mile stone has been reached! my son Zach can passed his very first video game. he has spend a quite a few weekends on and off playing Kung Fu Panda on my xbox 360. every time getting a bit further in the game. well tonight he has completed all levels and has beaten Tai Lung (last Boss)!

i could not believe it… he is only 6 years old. I’m pretty sure i didn’t pass any games until i was like 15 years old. anyhow as a recreational gamer dad. i am happy to see zach start a game and finish on his own steam!

Well done son!

The good thing about it was that Zach seemed to like it quite a bit even though he had to fumble around to do what the other kids were doing. I have always been uneasy with “play fighting” with Zach. I don’t want him to “play fight” with the other kids at school or church and hurt somebody unintentionally.

Now that he is in MMA, I want to make sure Zach only uses his new powers for good and not evil!

Below are pix of him learning the “arm bar” (cell phone pix)

Last night Zach wanted me to help find some “kids shows” on TV before he went to bed. I started to flip through some channels and I ended up going around the horn a few times when I stopped on some Korean TV show (I was just trying to be funny). I was expecting him to say “DaaAAD, come on!” but he didn’t.

“So you really want to watch this?” I asked.
“Yeah, I like Chinese warriors!” He said.

We continued to watch this  TV show for about 30 minutes. I ended up reading the English subtitles to him until one point there were some type of news ticker at the bottom that blocked the English subtitles. I proceeded to make up what they were saying….i had a bit of fun =). I don’t even think he noticed a difference, but none the less he seemed to really enjoy it.

Zach noticed in the show, a priest of some type that was wearing a special hat

Zach asked “Dad, to all Chinese Priest’s wear a chair with wings on it?”

I looked and sure enough that priest guy had on some funny hat that looked like a chair with wings on it. It’s so cool to get a glimpse of how a 5 year old sees things vs. how we see things. Their way is way more fun.

Finally, when we told it him it was time for bed he made that “Auhhh” sound.

Thanks Yi San (I think)