duke loves creating different tracks with various curved pieces, hex cells and hexagons – there are hundreds of endless possibilites and he doesn’t get bored (or stuck) with only one track.  you can also close areas to contain the nanos.  the nanos are interesting in themselves, you turn on a switch at the bottom and they vibrate which facilitates their movement.  when they are full of hexbug food (aka batteries) they move so fast and it’s funny to watch them bump into eachother or even flip on their side.  duke has also showed me that nanos play well with other toys – he builds tracks with his legos and adds pieces to the hexagons so they are 2 story.  his creativity + imagination runs wild!

duke says: hexbugs are robotic creatures, they move on tracks and they do great. they hit eachother and smash in walls. they flip by themselves and can go fast. you can get them by themselves or with tracks.  i love them!

highly recommended by our family!!!

guess what’s on someone’s christmas list?

here’s my 5 year old being silly with a hexbug!

Duke being silly with Hexbug from textdrivebys on Vimeo.

hexbug nanos are recommended for ages 3+ – hexbug can be found at target, walmart and toys r us.  

the hexbug nano glow in the dark set is $12.99 directly from hexbug.com – $14.99 from amazon.com
the hexbug nano habitat set is $24.99 directly from hexbug.com – $21.19 from amazon.com

for more information on hexbug nano and other products innovation first international offers, visit hexbug.com / @hexbug

disclosure: i received a hexbug nano glow in the dark starter set and hexbug nano habitat set, free of charge, to review.  all views/opinions solely are our own .

and it just so happened TODAY that we got one of those random coupons from target when you check out and it was for a $20 giftcard for new/transfer prescriptions and my husband had to have an extraction today so guess where we will be cashing out this week?  cha-ching!

so back to what i was saying, the other reason being that my pops is finally back in texas! lol  i adore my folks and would help them out with anything but it was time to go.  my pops & C were driving me crazy with basketball talk.  he was out here because of work and was able to transfer back.  so yes, maybe a combo of those 2 things made me sleep like a baby.

let me go back to yesterday, we stopped at chevron and i noticed gas is at $1.93 again :( we’re driving down beach blvd. and i see a big naked lady wrapped with a blanket pushing a cart and think to myself, how sad.  we get to mitsuwa, everyone is in their grab & go section, i grab myself a shrimp musubi & california maki, we pick up some snacks, pay.  i want to check out the food court.  we decide on getting some food but every place has the dreaded makeshift “CASH ONLY” taped to their registers.  we walk away sulking.  i stop at the japanese travel agency.  no deals for april :(  i walk away sulking even more.  we peek in the japanese bookstore.  i look at a few fashion magazines and get excited over the styling and photography.  i take my 13/365 photo of a girl looking at the magazines.

C brings up going to h&m at south coast plaza.  i tell him only if we can get in & out fast lol  i really despise that mall and was feeling subpar without my mascara (spanish for mask aka face makeup).  i call their mall info line (or did the site say concierge heh) and ask them where can i enter to get to h&m, the nice voice tells me there’s 2 h&m’s and which one did i want, i say kids, she says enter on bear street, park at macy’s home store and it’s on the 3rd floor.  we do that and it’s just like she said, mall concierge = awesome.  we walk in looking for some jeans for the kid and he sees a batman long sleeve, he throws it over his shoulder and walks away happy.  this is not your usual 3 year old, i think we’re in trouble.  i pass by some mirrors and make a mental note about how fuckin’ WHITE i am.  sheesh it doesn’t help that i’m in shorts either.  call me La Casper eh!  we find him a pair of awesome jeans, it’s $19.99 and we’re out.  we exit through macy’s home store and ohhh & ahhh at all the nice furniture.  as we get down to the 1st floor i see that they have a restaurant, nice!

we head back home, strollin’ once again down beach blvd. and now we see the same homeless lady a couple blocks up and on the other side of the street sitting at a bus stop.  she looks like she put a wheelchair in the shopping cart and a cop is talking to her.  i start praying that she gets to take a shower, some clothes, some food and a place to sleep tonight.  she’s still on my mind…

we get to target, there’s a cute car cart in the parking lot and we put the kid in, as we walk into the store i notice target associates making comments.  then C and i realize that the cart probably doesn’t belong to target, oh well.  we continue shopping, C goes to pay, i go to use the potty and as i’m heading towards him i hear an associate ask a security guard what he should do when we leave the cart in the parking lot.  when we get outside i look around as to where it could’ve come from, nowhere i can see for at least 5 blocks, weird.  poor abandoned cart.

we get to costco and i’m hoping to find a wii fit.  nothing.  C is hoping to get some samples but there isn’t any, weird.  we pick up the usual, i get cash back and we have dinner there.  my slice of combo pizza isn’t so good but the churro makes up for it.  it’s barely 6pm and there isn’t even a breeze, it’s probably like 75 degrees still.  winter come back.

we get home, put all our buys away and i put on our new sheets.  they look sooo good.  probably better since i got such a great deal on them.  the kid immediately jumps on the bed, moves like he’s swimming and ohhhs & ahhhs.  we wait till later to ohhh & ahhh at it.

so we made it out alive, didn’t have to pull out the macy’s card, it was a good day lol