Bringing back 'Red Rover'

Oh how my girls love the game 'Red Rover.' I showed them how to play this a few weeks ago, and they just love it. We walk over to the daycare a lot in the evenings after I get home from work and after having eaten our dinner, and we played it last night in the field beside the little daycare. They just love it. The kids next door were out tonight, and there were 2 boys that wanted to play. Faith was part of the chain calling for the one last boy to come over, and don't you know the boy plowed Faith over onto her head. He got her right in the throat when he tried to break through the chain, and she was hurting quite bad. Poor Faith-y! He didn't do it purposefully, so I explained to her that we'll just have to make sure she is not part of the chain when we play with a lot of kids. Other than that though, the game has been a hit.

I also introduced my big girls to the joys of 'Pictionary.' They love to do that with the chalkboard part of their easel. The other night Dan and Faith were a team, and Maddie and I were a team. They had a 'movie night' since it was the night Dan got back from Virginia, and they had been waiting so anxiously for Daddy.

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Forgot to mention that Faith has been hilarious in saying that she is now in love with a coupon. It originally started when she saw a coupon for Carter's that had a monkey on it, and she started saying that she thought it was so cute. Well, now she says that she is going to "marry a coupon and not John Smith." Hahaha. She'll even open her Disney Fairies chapter books and tell us, "Ok, I have to read you a love story... 'Once upon a time, there was a coupon'..." It's quite funny.

And, on the subject of John Smith... One of the nights that Dan was gone, my big girls got married. They requested to wear 'wedding dresses' instead of their typical nightgowns for the night. Maddie wore a cream colored dress she has, and Faith had to settle for a pink and white polka dot dress (haha!). They had me walk them down the aisle (the living room) and I had to sing the wedding march song. Maddie married John Smith (the Disney version, they refer to the historical version as 'dead John Smith!') and Faith married Edward from 'Enchanted.' It was quite hilarious. A few minutes after they had gotten married, I saw Maddie sitting on the staircase and she looked like she was crying. I asked her if she was OK, and she told me (in a dramatic, but quiet voice) "I'm just so happy!" Oh my!