Bored games, or Board games?

The Jayne Train children like to play board games.  Truth be told, the older 2 parts of the Jayne Train like to play board games with them also.  There have been many exciting games of things like: Life, Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, Crainium, and various other games that we find in our game cabinet.  Lately the girls have been wanting to play Sorry a lot.  The great part about this game is that even the little girls have just as much chance of winning as the big ones!  

The latest rousing game of "Sorry"

After a tiring weekend of busyness, we decided Sunday afternoon would be a lazy day, just hanging out watching movies, napping and playing games.  After a couple movies/snoozes, the oldest 4 girls in the house (once being my lovely wife) gathered at the dining room table for a rousing game of Sorry, which ended up lasting 1.5 hours.  This game give them chance to be mean to each other without getting in trouble, so I think that is why they like it!  

My favorite part of this game though, involves #3, Sarah.  Every time someone draws a sorry card and chooses to pick on Sarah, their sarcastic "Sorry" that they tell her as they knock her piece back to start, is answered by a sweet and sincere "I forgive you" from Sarah!  She is usually just oblivious to what is going on and just happy to be able to play with the rest of them.  The next best part is the fact that Sarah usually ends up winning somehow!  Which just goes to show that you do not need to think about your moves too much in the this game.  Just draw a card and move the first piece you see!  I will have to try that next time, since all the thinking and planning I do in the game usually end up with me in last place!

Happy Birthday, Mileah Grayce!

Today is our youngest daughters birthday.  She is 2 years old today and, as I say at all my kids birthdays, it does not seem possible for her to be 2!  She seems especially younger because she is so much smaller than all her sisters were at this age.  Leah is very entertaining as well as being very cute, most of the time. She is also trying to take Sarah's nickname, "The Fed" away from her by trying to get into even more stuff than she is not supposed to than Sarah does!  But I thank God everyday for the blessings of all my children and today especially for number 4! 

So Happy Birthday Mileah!

Imagination

Kids usually have a good imagination.  I tend to help our kids along by asking them strange questions to see what they will say.  But today we had a conversation with Sarah, our almost 4 yr old, that showed us that she does not need my help with her imagination.  Here is how it went:

Sarah came running into the room and told us, "I am almost finished packing!"

To that we asked, "Where are you going?"

Sarah replied, "To the beach! I going fishing!"

"Really," we said, "How are you going to get there?

To that she simply said, "I am going to drive my boat."  with a 'duh' kind of tone to her voice!

A while later, she was sitting in the middle of the living room telling us she was in her "silly boat" on the way to the beach!

Now I do not even need to help her to get funny conversations with her!  This should be interesting and fun!
Stay tuned!

Happy Birthday, Emma!

I say this at everyone of my kids birthday, but it is especially true with Emma our first born daughter, I does not seem possible that she can be this old!  Today, she is turning 10 (that is 3652 days if you are counting!) years old!  She has been anxiously waiting to be in the double digits since last year.  She is definitely a blessing from God, as all children are, and a joy to have around.

This last year her and I have been able to go do some special things together and I have been able to watch her do things that she did not think she was capable of doing.   I am looking forward to many many more adventures with my oldest daughter in the years to come and I thank God everyday for entrusting her to me to raise for Him.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
EMMA NYCOLE!  

No, I did not fall off the face of the earth!

I just recently noticed that I have not posted to my blog for quite sometime.  So this post is to tell all my loyal followers (both of them) that I did not fall off the face of the earth and disappear.  I am still around and have lots of blog posts in "draft" form right now.  I just have not had the time to finish them.  I just seems that life has gotten in the way lately and we have been very busy for a season.  Although I am just not sure what we did!  So stay tuned, my kids and a few other things are still keeping me inspired with lots of ideas for new posts.  I just need to find the time to write them.

I need to find some time!!