Play Date with Gene

Aidan's best friend at school is a kid named Gene. I think they tend to get each other in trouble. They were basically best friends from the first week of school. Finally we got them together after school. Here are some pictures.

This is Gene very focused on building a lady bug out of an apple, a project Kyra had for them:




This is Gene's younger brother Philip and Breckan.



Aidan making his ladybug:



(Gene's dad is a tennis pro!)

Roboraptor

Aidan and Breckan's favorite Christmas toy was Roboraptor. A biomechanically fluid, dinosaur robot. Breckan was very scared of it and is still somewhat scared of it. It has a remote control. However, it will sometimes move by itself, if someone hits it on the tail or gets close to its head. The kids love it. It roars, moves forward, backward, side to side, turns around.



This is Aidan and Emily playing with it. This kept these kids focused for an hour with no break. What other toy can match that other than a movie or video game. Their playing included being afraid to get close to it so they used a broom to see what it would do.