I went to Walmart last night because I’ve got some nasty gray coming in on top of my head, well, I did, not no more. (I’ll get pictures later.) We hit the clearance aisle because every once in awhile there’s something I just can’t live without hiding behind something I have no use for.
Not only was the Christmas stuff all 75% off, which I’m proud of myself for passing by (it was hard), but their games were on clearance too!
I got Disney Princess Yahtzee for $7, Disney Monopoly for $5, Life for $10, and Clue for $10.
I’m all excited. We don’t have games here. My children have lost the pieces to so many games that I just haven’t bought any for over 2 years. Came home, cleaned out a shelf that is up out of their reach in my closet at least I’m hoping it is and put the games there. I’m hoping that we can play games a couple of nights a week.
Jordan, Kat, Alyce, and I tried to play Life last night while Nano was sleeping. Alyce just wanted to drive her car all over the board (I know it’s too difficult of a game for a 3 year old, but we wanted to include her) and she kept crashing, knocking her people out, and crying because she lost her peeeee-pooole. We tried playing around her, but then Nano woke up. He tried to eat the board. So the oldest 2 laid on their stomachs and tried blocking the game from him which led to him screaming, climbing over them, and sitting on the spinner. *sigh* We put it up.
When Pato came home we got the 3 youngest to bed and we started playing life with Jordan at 12:30 AM (no school today). Jordan won. He obliterated Pato and I actually. And that child is meticulous when it comes to keeping track of his money and staying on the banker (me). I had more fun playing that I think than I had at the casino on Saturday, and that’s saying something. Life was always my favorite game when I was growing up. We didn’t have it ourselves, but one of my friends did and we would play it for hours. We got done at almost 2, put it up and everyone climbed into bed where Christiano promptly woke me up at 3. Then he was up for good at 8.
I promised Kat I’d play Monopoly with her today and Alyce a game of Disney Princess Yahtzee. That would be after I try to figure out which dice have 2 of one princess’ heads on it because my daughters couldn’t wait until I was out of the shower to put it together.
They also had Garanimal toys on clearance. Did you know Garanimal made toys? I didn’t. Christiano LOVES cars. He drives them all over the house. If he doesn’t have a car then he’ll use whatever he can push as he crawls around on all 4s, vacuum cleaner attachments, my cell phone if he gets his hands on it, you get the picture. I grabbed him this ambulance. I have never seen my child play with a toy like he did this one. He was taking the paramedic in and out, driving it all over. He played with this one toy for 30 minutes straight then kept going back to play some more. If anyone took it from him he’d let out this shriek of fury that would pierce through our brains and give us an insight into what my 10 month old’s temper may be like someday. When Pato got home (before we played Life) I went back up to Walmart and grabbed the fire truck Garanimals toy too. He loves it just as much. These are the toys -
Aren’t those cute? For $5 each, I was mighty impressed. I wish they would have had more styles, I would have bought all of them. As it was, there was only 1 fire truck left when I got back up to Walmart.
I’m kicking myself for not grabbing Connect 4. It was $7 also. Last night when I went back there were none left. I told Pato to look for that and Twister at the Walmart near his work today. I just want a closet of games now. I’ll be sad if I am trusting them again and they lose the pieces. I think the difference will be that before each kids’ games were in their own closet where they had easy access. Now they are in mine, up high. Here’s hoping!
And remember I told you at 9 1/2 months Christiano took his first steps to Jordan, and at 10 months he was taking 7-8 steps in a row? Now the child is walking halfway across my living room (he’ll be 11 months on the 23rd of January). A video would show it better, but can’t blur out my messy living room in a video. Here’s a picture of him coming at me, with a cheese stick – which I got to close to when I was selecting for my Blur That Back PSP Script and said, screw it.
Yep, this is what my living room looks like 30 minutes after my kids wake up. Sorry. Anyways, there’s mister man walking. And yep, he’s almost always in a diaper at home. (Hence all the pictures of him in a diaper.) My kids think he’s a doll, clothes on and off, on and off. He actually had pajamas on, but we took that off when he got breakfast all over them.
And the Ricky Martin tweet of the day -
‘Nuf said.
Have a great day!
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