Of Games and Story Hour and Leaves

One of Javin's goals in life must be to be able to play every game before the recommended age on the package! This week he added 2 new games to his repertoire of games - Rook and Speed Scrabble. Both games are for age 8 and up. He has played Hearts before so he had the concept of tricks already for Rook. He's got the name a bit skewed though; he calls it Brook. Speed Scrabble was played at a not so speedy rate, which was fine. I gave him some help but he understood the gist of it. He was coming up with words on his own. He loves words and does excellent on his spelling tests!

Kailyn loves to go to our little Story Hour program that is not so little any more. Well, the only little part about it is the space. Last week there were 20 kids and their moms and siblings packed into this tiny space. Such excitement over Story Hour. They sing songs, listen to stories and make crafts. She loves it!

The leaves are falling all around us this week,which provided us with some great leaf jumping opportunities. What a great childhood past time. I have many fond memories of jumping and burying myself in leaves as a kid. The funny thing is that now MY kids jump in the leaves that fall from the SAME trees that were there when I was a child. Isn't that weird?

Kailyn had some friends over to help in the leaf fun one day. The leaf-stuffed man also came out this fall. This year he is stationed at Mimi's house. I think he needs to go on a diet! He is looking kinda chubby.