October 9, 2009

Friday on the Levee

I'm a week behind...last Friday was beautiful and our family had a great outing to Newport on the Levee. We traversed the Purple People Bridge and amused ourselves at the incredible playgrounds at Sawyer's Point (at least I think that's where we were). We finished up the evening with a feast of delicious pizza and salads at Dewey's pizza.

From KY to OH
This is what you get when you ask Noelle to pose in front of the flowers:

And this is what you get when we ask Sadie to pose in front of the flowers, "like Noelle did."
Fun on the tire swing

October 1, 2009

"Guess What Animal I'm Thinking Of"

When I need an activity to keep the kids from driving me crazy at the lunch table or in the car...or anywhere really...I will play a game we call "Guess what animal I'm thinking of".

I think of an animal and then the girls, mainly Noelle, has to ask yes-no questions to figure out what the animal is. Here are some sample questions:

Does it have fur?
Does it have 4 legs?
Is it bigger then you?
Have you ever seen one in real life? (rather then in a book)

Recently Noelle has been trying to play this game with Sadie. It's obvious that Sadie doesn't quite "get it", but the results are very humorous. Here are 2 examples:

Noelle: Sadie lets play "Guess What Animal". You think of an animal and I'll guess it.
Sadie: Ok
N: Does it have 4 legs?
S: No.
N: Does it have 2 legs?
S: No
N: Does it have 3 legs?
S: Yes.
N: Is it a spider?
S: Yes!!

Even funnier is the fact that Noelle didn't see anything wrong with this and thought they'd had a great game.

Sample 2
Noelle: Sadie you think of an animal and I'll try to guess it
S: OK
N: Does it have 4 legs?
S: No
N: Does it have 2 legs?
S: No
N: Does it have any legs?
S: No
N: Is it bigger then you?
S: No
(at this point I thought Sadie was just saying No to everything, so I tried to trick her)
Me: Is it smaller then you?
S: Yes
(okay so much for my theory)
N: Is it a cupcake?
S: YES!!!

Ummm, isn't this game called "Guess What Animal I'm Thinking of"? Again, Noelle and Sadie seemed perfectly pleased with their accomplishment.