Game On

Ever heard of cabin fever? Well I haven't just heard of it I've LIVED IT. Today was another snow day and last night after a LONG day inside (remember when you have a 3 year old that wants to play in the snow you spend 20 minutes getting dressed to go outside only to spend 10 minutes outside because it's cold!) it was almost bedtime and we were all sitting in front of the fire exhausted from......well just exhausted. I pulled open the "game drawer" and found one of my most favorite games: Mancala. If you have never played you should start. Its a lot of fun. I admit I haven't played in a while. As soon as I opened it up Braxton saw the "pretty rocks" and was all for learning to play. He actually played really well and won the first round without me even trying to let him. I have to tell you some funny things he said though. He was putting the marbles aka "pretty rocks" around the game board and I decided I'd start explaining what we were doing. BIG MISTAKE. I forgot who I was playing with and when I told him not to put one on my side he looked at it and said "No your side has more!"( See the bottom picture). He asked a million questions before I convinced him that I knew how to play. When he actually won, I told him to take his marbles out and count them and he said, "Mama I don't want to count".
Brandon said while most three year olds are learning Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders, my son is learning Mancala. And I thought a Toy Story 3 Memory game would be appropriate for Christmas!

Snow Day(s)!!

Our second snow day this week. We got a lot this round starting with snow and turning into frozen stuff last night. Looks like it might stick around for awhile. Who knows when we'll go back to school. My semester was supposed to start back tonight. They just canceled for the evening.
I decided that the one thing I hate about snow days is we have to make them up!!!
I've turned into adult!! Scary.

Happy New Year!!

2011 is here. The holidays are over and on Monday I return to work. I can not believe that the holidays are completely over!

We went over to a friends house last night to bring in the new year and Braxton could take the suspense no more and passed out at 11:45. He had so much fun with the kids and I actually witnessed him giving Miley a kiss!! She's always been crazy about him but just in the past few weeks he's started to really come around.

This evening we went over to Dad's to take part in our traditional New Years dinner. As I'm sure you can see, it was absolutely delicious. And even though it was 55 degrees we ate our dinner by a roaring fire.