Our webkinz blog www.atomicolicious.com has taken off. It started climbing over the past few weeks, hitting about 600-800 page views a day. Then the past week has been a new high almost every day. Friday – 1,300 page views… Saturday – 1,800 page views and then Sunday a whopping 4,733 page views and one post with 350 comments alone. Today was 3,600 page views and a post now has 490 comments.
Hayley is so excited by it all. Evidently parents are cool with their kids on the blog b/c it is overseen by a mother and the kids like to trade object through the blog, not to mention get hints, etc. I’ve had so many nice posts from parents. One told me that their kid had read more of our blog than the combination of all the books he cracked this summer – and the parent thought it was awesome because the kid was happy to read it.
Hayley loves posting on it. She is now comfortable with taking a screenshot, cropping and saving it in photoshop, then ftping it to our server and posting it in the blog with some text. I helped her but she typed her first line of straight html on Friday. She can now copy an img src line and edit it to call a different image. How cool is that?? She just thinks this is all fun, not writing, editing, coding and such.
Our latest addition to the blog is …. we did a video news broadcast for the blog. Hayley worked so hard, writing and setting it all up. She planned it all out and was so excited. She even helped me edit things, picking colors, writing stuff up and setting the order, etc.
Hayley and her friend Abigail had a sleepover tonight. At some point we got the fine idea to make a music video. So they wrote a song, dressed up like rockers and put on makeup. They worked out playing it (Abigail on lead vocals with Hayley on drums and backup vocals) and I taped them.
It was hysterical fun – I love this age. They are charmed by everything and always ready for silly fun.
Hayley swimming for the Devilrays in a swim meet in the 7-8 year old girls freestyle relay. This was the fastest she has swum this season! They finished fourth but that was still a great swim for this relay team!
Hayley and the Cat in the Hat gang were FANTASTIC. They got a huge round of applause. Hayley was just wonderful! The photos from the actual recital just don’t look right and I’m so bummed but shooting in that theatre was awful. The video is cute but I missed the last 10 seconds.
The recital gallery has three sections now – photo day, rehearsals and the recital itself.
Video – Hayley starts off on the left back and she is the one without gloves (she took them off right before going on.)
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Great eight, Hayley is eight! Photos from family celebration and her big party at Pump It Up where Ramses showed up as a surprise!
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I forgot I had excerpts from two early season basketball games Hayley played in last season. I pulled some clips out and post them. Remember this is the first time she’s played organized team ball and is playing again boys.
It is about three minutes long and there is no audio because it was just obnoxious gym noise as well as Jeff and I running our mouths. Oh when she runs up to the camera, she is saying, ‘we won’. Hit the screen to get rolling…
Rey threw down one of the most vicious dunks I’ve seen this season during the N.C. State butt kicking UNC did on Wednesday night. I’ve seen better dunks but not one that actually humiliated someone else so much.
Oh that was so sweet and so are these photos and video.
