Upwords on Monday

Monday night we had my parents & brother over to play Upwords. Here is the thing--my dad is not so good at Upwords & David is really good at Upwords. David thought he would have a good chance of winning, but my mom is also pretty good at it. Anyway, my dad got to go first. So he played CAT for his opening word. CAT--I mean really!

Oh yeah, in case you haven't played Upwords, the basic premise is you spell words kinda like Scrabble but all the letters have the same point value and you can stack letters on top of each other to form new words.

So anyway, David is off and running playing 17 & 18 point words and all that as the game progresses. Well the last few times around you could see people trying to get rid of their tiles so they would not be left holding any--and here is my dad playing one letter at a time stacking and stacking away slowly, David was playing all these big point words really thinking he was going to win . . . but my dad ended up winning by 2 points!! He was as shocked as David I think since he never wins games. It was funny! And to think he only started with CAT!

Inauguration Day responses from the girls

I was watching the inauguration--Some responses from the kids:

Susie--She held up her hand just like Biden and Obama when they were taking the oath of office. Then she clapped with everyone. She also liked the symphony music by Yo Yo Ma & friends; she said" I sleepy" but then when the song was over she sat up and said "I up now."

Annie--They watched inauguration in her classroom. They even watched the prayer. Annie said she was praying along with Rick Warren in her head. sh wanted to watch it again at home on the computer--that was touching . . .she would repeat some of his words and was so sincere.

Sharon--She likes the Obama girls (she liked their coats) and is impressed with Michelle Obama. She likes her clothes and thinks she is pretty. She got to watch the oath in her classroom also and they talked about it a little . She did not have any comments when I told her I was blogging the inauguation and what they thought. (She watched the Kid's Inaugural Concert and liked that more, I think! )

So there are the are the responses of the youngest in our family! I think it was a good experience for them to see what an inauguration is like regardless of your political affliation. It was a good thiing for them to see how American democracy is supposed to work. I know the significance was lost on Susie but she was interested in whatever mommy was watching.

Two year old Knock knock jokes

Susie, who is two. really wants to be like her big sisters. So recently she has discovered the knock knock joke and the fact that people will listen and sometimes laugh. Soooo, she tries it. Her knock knock jokes go like this

S: "Mommy, mommy?"

R: "Yes Susie.

S: "Knock knock."

R:"Who's there?"

S:"Mommy!"

(She usually gets an obligatory grin or giggle just because she is so cute!)

David tried to teach her how knock knock jokes are supposed to work. He tried to teach her the banana one, but she didn't want to keep it going and didn't get it. Oh well! One of these days she will get it. After all Sharon's toddler jokes were only the word "watermelon!"

Welcome to our new blog

This blog is a replacement blog for the one on wordpress. I didn't like wordpress so much so I made the switch to blogspot. If you ever read Rebecca's wordpress blog, I will not be posting there but you can still read the old posts. This blog is our family blog written mostly by Rebecca although there will most certainly be contributions by the rest of the family. I will try to update it at least once a week . . . hopefully. Enjoy the blog!