2.19.2007

Growing Up

This was a landmark weekend regarding how much fun it is starting to become to have older kids. We have had a great time playing games at a suprisingly comprehensive level, in addition to the fact that Mia and Cooper play together very well for extended periods of time now, so I was able to finish my taxes, etc. It's so nice not to have to babysit - for a few minutes at a time anyway!
One of the sweetest moments in recent memory happened while we were playing Pictionary on Saturday night. David and I on one team and Steve, Shanna, and Mia on the other team, which worked out well, since Steve's 30 second attention span lent itself to needing a 3rd player. Anyway, Mia was doing an awesome job drawing and guessing - she seriously beat Dave and I drawing a couple of times, no holds barred. One of those included "underwater camera", complete with a stickman diver wearing flippers, diving under the waterline while holding a camera. We came upon the word "small" and it was an all-play, so that left Mia and I drawing. I drew various contrasting objects and finally David guessed it right before the time ran out. But neither Shanna or Steve had guessed anything close to Mia's highly detailed little object, so they asked her what she was drawing. "A grasshopper." We totally died laughing. So then she says, "I guess a shoulda drawn a ladybug - they're even smaller..."
Here is pic of Mia, Coop and I playing Uno tonight. Cooper is fully functional and can get through an entire game without me having to tell him which card to play. Note the "I really don't care if anyone sees my cards" attitude, which means Mia just works him over when it's her turn to pick a color. Note2 the duration of which it takes Mia to play a card, routinely resulting in napping antics.