Lex got a few board games for Christmas (Candy
Land, Chutes & Ladders, and Trouble) and he LOVES them!
He’s so funny. We play several times a day and he’s really good
at the spinning, drawing a card, popping the dice, counting,
colors, and moving (when he wants to), but what he really needs
work on is his focus. Last night we were playing Candy Land and
the game went something like this: Alan draws a card, moves his
piece, I draw a card, move my piece, Lex jumps on the
trampoline, grabs a card, runs over and tucks it under doggy, proclaiming “doggy got a red!!”,
sits down and does a few little silly moves around doggy, jumps
back up on to the trampoline, a few more bounces, climbs over
Alan and finally makes it back to the board. Now, if he’s had
enough, he’ll move his piece to the next red square and the
game will continue. Otherwise he’ll move his piece backward (I
think he does get confused about forward and backward
sometimes) or he’ll put his piece ON the card over by doggy, or
use his piece to “draw” all over each red place on the board,
or do some other silly thing. All the while Alan and I are
saying, “Come on Lex, draw a card, move your piece, come back
over here, etc.” Then finally he’s done and Alan and I go and
it’s right back to Lex again. Needless to say, games take
awhile. But he loves them. Earlier in the evening they were
playing alone while I fed Eve and Lex ran into the kitchen to
show me each card that doggy picked. :) Remind you of a Family
Circus cartoon?

Now a game we can all
play…
I got a new camera for my
birthday 8 weeks ago and we’ve already taken 743 pictures and
movies. That’s a lot! Most of them of Lex and Eve. When I saw
that I was reminded of a comment my Grandpa made at his 80th
birthday party two years ago about how the number of pictures
taken of a person is the inverse of their age. So, the
challenge is to guess how many pictures we have taken of Lex
over the past two and a half years. Most of the more recent
ones also include Eve, but for the purpose of the game I’m
going to just say Lex since he was born. Now, I have NO IDEA
what the answer is and I’m not about to count every single one,
but in a few days I’ll go back through and come up with a
reasonable approximation. The person with the closest guess
will win a fabulous, wonderful, exciting prize… like a
picture of Lex!