Toby and Matt

The Price is Right is must-watch TV in our household…

Now, I’m known for my love of kids shows, from the Muppets to the Tick, but I haven’t fell in love with a new one in quite a while. About a month ago, I was introduced to “What the Kids Are Watching” on The Soup to a new show:

Which prompted me to seek it out on my DVR, despite only remembering that it had a name like Yabba Dabba Do or Gamma Go or Yo MTV Raps. At first, my blog co-author made fun of me for taping it, but after one episode, he realized that I was a gabba genius for recording gems like this:

Carrots want to go the party in Brobee’s tummy! Who wouldn’t??? Toby wants in on the Brobee party!
More research found that the music is so good cause it’s written by real bands — and I love how the show gets kids to move (there is a whole subsection on YouTube of kids dancing in front of this show) and go crazy. It also teaches important lessons like don’t bite your friends, how to draw a cat, that picking up your room is fun to a reggae beat, or how to beatbox.

So seriously, check out Yo Gabba Gabba. It is the one reason to turn to Nick Jr if you are over 13. Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for me to Dancey dance.

Despite our somewhat recent interest in cooking new and exciting dishes, Toby and I didn’t eat much at home this weekend. Here are four places we ate:

Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant (Astoria) – We’ve lived in the Ditmars Blvd area of Astoria for a little over a year now and this is the first time we went to this place. I have no idea what took us so long. The food was pretty good and we’ll probably be back.

King China Buffet II (Astoria) – This is one of those places that we sort of went to as a joke the first time, but we’ve been back again and again. It’s a great place to go while doing laundry and I love my chocolate pudding, chocolate ice cream and cheese cake concoction for dessert.

P.J. Horgan’s (Sunnyside) – We decided to head over to Sunnyside to get a sense of the area on saturday night. After a walk up and down Queens Boulevard and Greenpoint Avenue, we stopped into P.J. Horgan’s for a drink. The food looked pretty good so we had dinner there as well. The turkey burger was pretty good, but the chicken pot pie didn’t come close to what you’ll get at McReilly’s in Long Island City. That said, I could easily see myself spending more time in this and the other bars of Sunnyside.

Indian Taj (Jackson Heights) – We drove out to my soccer game this week. On the way back, we stopped off in Jackson Heights for Indian buffet. I guess we have a thing for unlimited amounts of food. The Jackson Diner gets a lot of the attention, but I’ve never been. This place does the trick for me.