Grammy and I stayed at your house for a couple days while your parents went off and celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary.  We had a blast playing board games, making Lego’s, coloring, eating together, going to Emma’s lacrosse game, watching Camden play baseball (while you ran around the field) and most important…

… playing games like Mother-may-I, Simon Says and Red Light Green Light. You can’t get enough!

Mother May I is always a favorite.  You, Camden and Madigan like to take turns doing some of the crazy things I tell you to do like:

“Take one snakey crawl”

“take two princess spins”

“you may take three froggy jumps but you must say ‘rivet’ while you jump”

“take one giant Frankenstein step”

and a bunch of other things that I make up on the spot.

You also enjoy it when I make up games (I’ve blogged about that before).  This time we played “the object match game” which involves me walking around your house (with you not looking), drawing sketches of random objects on tiny scraps of paper.  Then you and Camden take turns looking at the little drawings and have to figure out and find the actual object.

Another one we created together is “hot lava.”  We spread put cushions and blankets on the floor around your house and you have to jump from one to another under time pressure, being careful not to fall off lest you fall into hot lava!   This one gets a little crazy and sometimes you end up crying.  There’s a lot of pressure I guess!  So when it gets too crazy, we move onto a new one.

we had rain at Camden’s game, but later on the sun came out and you dined “al fresco” on your deck:

We all went back to Grammy and Papa’s house for a Mother’s day celebration with Great Gram. It was a beautiful day, and you ate on the big deck:

At night the Clickman’s joined us for dinner at Margaritas.  What a fun, busy two days we had together!