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.