Playing more games

There's a kids game that's called 'I went to the beach..'

You start off with one person say 'I went to the beach and I took a...' and then lists a single item that they took with them.. the next person then says exactly the same thing and adds on one item that they took with them, and the next person has to remember the previous two items and add on one of their own... and so on..

in my house, however, it's played slightly differently...

me: I went to the beach and took a towel
1: I went to the beach and took a towel and a beach ball
2: I went to the beach and took a towel, a beach ball and a dinosaur car....
3: I went to the beach and took some sushi and an eye, and some hair, and a arm, and a teddy ball......(at this point we're laughing so hard he just carries on)...and a racing car, and a mommy, and the dog, and...

eventually we stop him, explain the rules of the game and then try again.... with the same results.. it's become a bit of a game in itself to see whether he actually mentions *anything* that anyone else did in between laughing so hard about it all :D

Seth

I only found out about Seth Godin around a year ago and I've been smitten (for a better word) ever since. The other thing I've been quite taken with in roughly that same year is the TED talks. Now I know I'm certainly not alone, but I've started trying to figure out why everyone is so eager to hear what Seth or any of the other TED talkers have to say and I think it's because there are a lot of people who are not just getting smarter, but they're starting to see the world in a different light...

this is a good thing and it resonates well with me... so much so that I often feel I can change the world after reading one of Seth's pieces... :)

so a quick thank you to Seth - who inspires many of us to be more than the box we've put ourselves in..

Playing I-Spy

I recently taught the little ones to play I-Spy which we now play in the car but when it comes to the three-yr old, the game goes in a totally different direction:

1:I-spy something beginning with 'b'
2:bird
1:nope
3:bag
1:no
2:bucket
1:nah-uh
3:book
1:nope
(then it starts getting a little out of hand)
2:bear
1:no
3:bangkok
1:nope

3:ok, we give up, what is it?
1:a racing car!
3:a racing car starts with a 'r' not a 'b'
1:ok, I-spy with my little eye something beginning with 'r'
3:a racing car
1:yes! you got it!

.....and this happens over and over and over and over again..... lol!