Leh Pay Gase! (Let's play games!)

How to play the Dora ABC game, Ben style:

Open the box and take out the board- see that the back is 'backpack" and turn it over to look and get all excited and sing the song.... "backpack, backpack...."

Put the board down on the table and pull out all of the ABC cards- have your mommy put them all out with the letters facing up while you mess around with them. Put the Dora on the board at the beginning of the alphabet.

First Mommy says something, then you YELL your response...

The first letter is....

A!!

Where's the A card?

Here it is!!

Right! A is for...

(Turn over the card) Apple! (a-oh)

Okay, Put it on the picnic!

Put the card somewhere at the bottom of the board, being sure to mention who it is you're putting the food by.... except the kite! The kite goes up in the sky!

Repeat with each letter of the alphabet. Get a little tired towards the end. After all, you do have the attention span of a two-year old =)

Ben is LOVING games these days. We have a few so far that he can play so far (modified a bit) and he thinks it's great. After Dora, we played "Wheels on the Bus". They love this one because the little bus sings the song. Chris goes nuts and wants to play too, but he just wants the bus the whole time. When we're done playing, we give it to him and put the game away whenever he's tired of it. He loves to keep pushing all the buttons over and over and rolling it to make it sing. This is Chris' FAVORITE song right now, I think that's why he likes it so much.

Silly kid...

Ben just asked to watch Wiggle Bay for the third time today... as I turned it off, I said, "No way! I'm so sick of Wiggles, I could just... puke!" And he said, "no way, that's gross!" hahaha... I didn't think he knew what puke meant!

8th of July

We celebrated with the fam the Sunday after the 4th. We had dinner, they played in the little pool for a while, while we all got bitten to death by mosquitos... then did some fireworks. The kids mostly liked it. They were interested at first ;) I think Ben liked picking out the fireworks more than actually watching them. He picked a chicken and a car... lol. He thought most of them were "too louder!" when they lit them. Chris was more interested in just playing with Grandpa. He almost fell out of his little chair once, but he sure liked sitting in it!

Here are some more pics from the day:

4th (8th) of July

Box fulla cuteness

It's funny how much fun a kid can have being pushed around the house in a cardboard box. So cute how they were loving being squished in there together!

The wagon...

This was the highlight of their week, I think... I took them for a walk and let Ben pull Chris in the wagon. They thought it was so fun and just hilarious. I was snapping my camera the whole way, and it was so funny- I would run ahead to get the shot and Ben would start running too, and then Chris would laugh and the would both just laugh and laugh! I had to do a scrapbook page.