Our daily movie list

Almost every weeknight is movie night in our home. This is how we pass the time while we wait for Daddy’s Skype call.

Recently, my girls have taken a liking for Barbie the Island Princess. It’s a movie – musical about Ro (Barbie) who gets stranded in an island when she was a kid. Having lost her memory, she spent the next 10 years living in the island with her family: the panda Sagi, the peacock Azul, and the baby elephant Tica.

My girls love the vibrant colors and the talking animals in the movie, they’ve memorized all the names, even some of the dialogues. But what they love the most are the songs. It’s fun to watch them every time they burst into a chorus, their improvised microphones in hand, gesturing just like Barbie.

Of course, the lyrics are often interspersed with their own words but my girls got the melody.

Another mainstay on our DVD is Go Diego Go. Jamaine and Kalia love acting like explorers, pretending to climb mountains and using binoculars to find animals to save.

It’s cool because they get to learn about animals like chinchillas, jaguars, flamingos and macaroni penguins. I didn’t know there were animals like that when I was 3 years old.

I guess I just need to brush up on a little zoology though because sometimes Jamaine would ask what a particular animal is and I want to come up with something more than generic terms like birds. For example, this animal is a bird but it’s family calls it eagle and his name is Bald Eagle. Eagles alone have 60 species (okay, I got that info from Wikipedia).

Anyway, it’s three weeks to Ohana Day. Yay! It’s actually 25 days but each day is passing faster. Yes, I wish I could pull the days even faster. But for now, I remain thankful that we are getting closer and closer to our special family day.

Thank God, it’s Saturday too.

Have a great weekend everyone!