This morning at church Daniel was resting his head on my shoulder but his pointy little chin was like a dagger so I said, "Daniel, your chin is hurting my shoulder." He politely turned his head to the side, but before long he said, "Mom, now your shoulder is hurting my cheek. My chin was comfortable before!"
Today is 95 and humid--an inside with AC kind of day. Also an "Edward finally wore me down" kind of day in that I agreed to play Monopoly with him. I'm not sure where he heard of it or why he was so intrigued, but he's been asking for a few months now to play, but the timing just hasn't been right. (He usually asks about 10 minutes before dinner or bed time!)
Daniel insisted he would play too and NOT with John's help. So John was the banker/photographer.
Here I'm explaining the concept of "Free Parking" as Daniel deposits a "Community Chest" fine.
On the very next turn, Edward rolled a winning combination.
And won the "Free Parking" pot.
He was pleased.
We played until all three of us landed in jail at the same time. We used the break in momentum to notice that each boy had acquired nine properties, which made it a good time to stop. Edward had Park Place and Boardwalk; Daniel had Mediterranean and
Baltic. It probably wasn't going to end well, right? We never got to the
houses/hotels. Edward wanted to leave it set up and continue later, but then we pointed out that we had the game spread out on the dinner table. Pizza with Grandma and Grandpa triumphed over real estate mogul dreams.
