Jet Lag Curse

I'm jet lagged. It's 2:45 am. Kids fell asleep at 9:30 pm. They will most undoubtably awake at 7:00 am because I couldn't sleep.

I opened solitare on my phone just now in an effort to kill some more time and got a funny surprise. There was a game already started so I just picked up wher I left off last time I played. When I checked my stats (my goal is to be under about 105 moves per game) I saw that it took me 465 moves to win this game. I was terribly confused until I remembered that I had taught Madison to play it a few days ago. I feel much better about myself now.

Blokus

Maddie and I enjoyed a competitive game of Blokus while Ben was at school yesterday. Anyone know how to play Blokus? It's actually a really great Tetris style game to play with adults. We can also play it with little kids because they can have their own pieces and as long as they know how to take turns their screwy moves just add to the challenge. Anyway, if you start to stategize you can arrange your pieces to surround and block off another person or "Blokus" them. We were only four pieces into the game when Maddie started declaring quite proudly, "I blocked you, Mom!!" She was so excited and would laugh at her every triumphant move. Notice in the picture though that our pieces are no where near each other. Didn't stifle her zeal and childlike anticipation of the coming shut-out style victory she would soon declare. Even notice her sticking her tongue out at me in a show of good sportsmanship.