Games, Games, Games

What? Back to back posts, two days in a row???!  I know.  I must have too much time on my hands.  It's really procrastination.  I rationalize that I should blog before starting something productive.  ha ha! 

Really, I just had to write about our fun afternoon yesterday.  It was games, games, games.  We've been playing a lot of games this summer, but yesterday, I thought that Laura is probably old enough for some of the "adult" games.  So I dug out Monopoly, and she loved it!  Laura, Grammy, and I played for 4, yes I said 4 hours!  And after dinner she wanted to play again.  I told her maybe on the weekend.  Ours, of course, is a Star Wars edition.  So she hasn't played on a traditional board yet, but she did a great job.  She was the banker too.  Grammy won, and Laura was second.  I went bankrupt first :(  Laura was Luke Skywalker, I was Princess Lea, and Mom was a robed character that I can't remember.  I'll google it later.  Did you know that putting the money in the "middle" as the pot is a house rule?  I didn't.  I read the whole rule book looking for it, and it's not there!  So we didn't play that way this time.  We played by the official rules.  But who knew?!  Anyway, I think we have many a game night in our future. 

As a compromise, after dinner, we played Sequence, another one of my favorite games.  Desiree, my college roommate, and I used to play this game all the time in college....when we weren't partying of course.  (I swear we weren't lame :)...)  I taught Laura and Hannah how to play, and Laura won!  Both girls seemed to enjoy it, which makes me so excited.  I finally have someone to play that game with again. 

Emma was not very interested in games; she tried Monopoly for about one time around the board.  And she was done and sold her two properties back to the bank or abandoned them.  And we sold them back to the bank...foreclosure I guess.  So she enjoyed her some screen time. 

May the Force be with you

Little Miss got to spend her afternoon with Aidan and had a blast

The crazies have corn on the cob - it's flowing out of Papa's garden!

The little card sharks

Uninterested

One note as a follow up to yesterday - Matt and I finished Stranger Things last night.  I really liked it and am excited for the 2nd season.  The flashback scenes of Hopper's daughter were super sad, but I was so happy they were able to find Will.  Matt and I think that Elle is still alive, and Hopper is helping her or the lab or something like that.  It was a good one!