Monday, August 8, 2011

The Games We Play

Today while we were at the African Lion Safari Seb and I found ourselves standing in quite the long line for the train.  I decided to pass the time by playing some games with him and we were able to pass the time quite easily playing Eye Spy, Rock, Paper, Scissors and 5 questions (where one person has to guess what you are, such as a cheetah, by asking only 5 questions). 

This got me thinking of all the types of games I used to play as a child with my family and the fond memories I had.  As such, I thought I'm make a list for Sebastian of the types of games he would play with us at this age.  They are all games that Seb comprehends and can play easily with us:

-  Harvest Time
-  Junior Boggle
-  Trouble
-  Sorry!
-  Go Fish
-  War
-  Uno
-  Old Maid
-  Eye Spy
-  5 Questions
-  Rock, Paper and Scissors
-  Busy Town Mysteries Eye Found It!
-  Cat in the Hat, I Can Do That!
-  Cariboo Island
-  Snakes and Ladders
-  Dominoes
-  Kerplunk
-  Bingo
-  Connect-the-dots
-  Mazes
-  Find the Item in the Picture

Deep Thoughts by Sebastian

Tonight while lying in bed after reading a bedtime story about aliens and a frog the following conversation occurred:

Sebastian:  Is space real?

Jamie:  Yes, outer space is real.

Sebastian:  Are aliens real?

Jamie:  I have never seen a real live Alien but I have to imagine that if we are here on this planet that there are some kind of life on another planet.

Sebastian:  I think we're the Aliens.

Jamie:  Yes, we could be the Aliens to some other aliens.

Sebastian:  We could be the Aliens to... birthday cake (giggle giggle).

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Yangtze Valley by Matt Hirt

Just a note for memory lane....

After searching for a good week or so for the name of this tune Sebastian's cousin Kassy recognized what we were singing and was able to tell me where this song was from and I was able to track it down.

Sebastian and I sing this song all the time.  He sings one line and I sing the other.  It's become our theme song of sorts.  It's not very complicated and we're not always in tune but all one of has to do is start singing and/or humming the song and the other follows.  We're quite the team the two of us!