Yep, we’ve got the Firefly board game and had ourselves a good time giving it a test drive with our friends Wren and Patrick! I’m looking forward to getting some more time with it (and them) now that we’ve got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m really not sure which made me laugh more, her reasoning as to why she OBVIOUSLY knew where it was, or her very prompt reversal to not being able to find it. I’ve heard of the old “three-nager” thing, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kia’s jokes tend to be rather hard to follow, especially those that she makes up herself, but this one came from a kids-oriented magazine that my mother got for the girls. The first time that she told it to someone,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn continues to fight learning to talk – or perhaps she just prefers her own language to English – but we have been pushing it a little harder, lately. She will frequently try telling us things, and we’re just over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The girls don’t often get to eat ye olde Mickey-D’s, but if we know it’s going to be a late dinner for us, it’s the better option to letting them starve. That said, it only took once for Kia to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stacy has conditioned Arwyn to resist the dad side of the Force, unfortunately, and she remains loyal even when her mama is scaring her. Then again, I’m pretty sure that Arwyn LIKES being scared, despite her complaints, as she’ll actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kia was really good about her please and thank yous when she was younger, but she fell out of the habit at some point, and we’ve been pushing hard on reminding her about it. Sometimes I’m pretty direct about it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am the girls’ favourite playground. Why? I think that it’s because I make fun noises when they climb, jump, and dance on me. That aside, I’m very glad to see that Kia’s been paying attention to my proper pronunciation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadly, the moustache did not survive long enough to be Forced onto Yoda’s upper lip, but I really liked the suggestion. Mostly, after Kia and Arwyn both pulled it off and put it onto various toys, it ended up on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This sort of thing happens a lot more than she’d want to admit. It’s usually results in me asking what the heck she’s talking about, then she starts explaining with info she failed to provide the first time around. Having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…