Board Games For Kids

November 19, 2008 at 10:07 pm · Comments (1)
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Eric and I just got done playing a game of Scrabble Jr. He’s had that game since he was 4 years old, and honestly I think he’s almost ready to start playing regular scrabble. In scrabble Jr there are already words on the board and you have to place the corresponding letters on the board to spell out the words with your tiles. The way it works is each person is allowed to play 2 of their letter tiles at a time. You must start out by playing the first letter of 2 different words or the 1st and 2nd letter of the same word, then the next person does the same and you place the letters on the board in order. The person who completes a word (by putting the last letter of the word in place) gets a little token. Whoever has the most tokens at the end of the game is the winner. It’s really easy, but it’s also fun and sort of a challenge still. Pretty soon, though, I’ll be either selling that game or donating it and getting regular scrabble.

Since I’m on the subject of board games.. There’s something that really bugs me about certain games. It’s like ok.. I bought battleship. Then they came out with electronic battleship, then some other version of the electronic battleship. I saw a new version of the game “Sorry!” the other day at Target, too. It’s called Sorry Sliders and it’s got little balls in the bottom of the game pieces so they “slide” on the board. Hello?!?!? How stupid. I mean seriously, it’s just more of the same crap that I already spent my money on but since it’s “new” of course kids have to have it. Whatever.

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Your Amazon.Com Order Has Shipped!

November 19, 2008 at 5:50 pm · Comments (1)
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I did some online Christmas shopping a couple of days ago, and some of the kidd’s Christmas gifts are on their way! I’m relieved to have gotten some of it done. I’m usually finished by now but I’ve just been preoccupied I guess. I haven’t been “into” the holidays this year like I usually am. I’m pretty sure alot of that has to do with some personal issues that I’m going through right now. I don’t want to elaborate on that right now, though. Anyway, I have several things still that I am going to get him, all of which I should be able to pick up at Toys R Us. It shouldn’t be too hard, because I know my kid pretty well and I know what he likes and doesn’t like. I also don’t believe in getting a ton of senseless gifts just for the simple fact of “having alot of presents”. I put alot of thought into each and every item that I choose for my son, that way none of his gifts ever go “untouched”.

Right now he’s really into Lego Star Wars stuff, and it seems that every other boy around his age is also because that stuff is kinda hard to find at the moment. I did manage to get him some of the things that were on his Christmas list, and hopefully I’ll be able to find a few more things that he really wants. I’m not going to get him every single thing on his list though, that would be absurd. My son is spoiled, but he’s not THAT spoiled. LOL

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Quick Update On The Kiddo

November 19, 2008 at 5:29 pm · Comments (1)
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Tomorrow Eric is going on a field trip with his class to The Houston Zoo. He’s been to there several times before, but he’s looking forward to it just the same. What kid doesn’t like the zoo, anyway? It’s going to be cold out tomorrow I believe, so I’ll have to dress him accordingly. I’ll tell him to take some pictures with his phone while he’s there.

Anyway, he came home from school today and said someone “framed” him for something he didn’t do. It made me chuckle because for some reason it made me think of that old movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? He said some kid in his class said something mean about one of their classmates and then blamed it on Eric, and he got in trouble for it. By trouble, though, I think the teacher just reprimanded him or something cause he really didn’t lose any playtime priveledges or anything like that but he was kinda mad just the same. I just found it amusing that he actually said he was “framed”.

What else..? Oh yeah, Eric called me around noon from the nurse’s office to tell me he threw up and needed to come home. I refused to rush out and pick him up this time, because he does this at least once a week. He has reflux and sometimes throws up. I told the nurse to have him lay down for about 10 minutes and if he felt better then send him back to class, but if he still felt sick then I’d come pick him up. He ended up being fine, though, and is currently outside playing with his friends.

Commenters: Julie