Atomic Chutes and Ladders, Cousins, Drowning

Carolyn pulled out Chutes and Ladders tonight and wanted to play with me.  Game play was fast - she grabbed a 20 sided dice for some reason.  With 100 squares on the board, most of the dice options really make it move.  Jamie termed it Atomic Chutes and Ladders.

Sam and Melanie joined us for a game, and though there are 4 little people included in the game, Mel used one of Madeleine's rocks for hers.  She was one fast rock.  Got to the big long ladder and left the rest of us in her dust.

One game was enough for Sam, but Melanie stuck around and Adam jumped in.  At one point those two were rolling on the ground laughing.  The kid pulling the kitty's tail square is 20 squares away from the bottom of that slide (kid getting scratched by kitty).  Melanie hit the top of the slide and had to go down, went enough squares to land her exactly on the middle of the slide, then enough to be right back on the top.  Back down to the bottom.  Then she rolled a 20.  Awesome.

We got to take cousin Ben with us to church today.  Mommy not feeling well, so we offered to help out.  He enjoyed nursery with Madeleine and I, and was great through sacrament meeting.  Funny thing - Melanie and I walked out of ward choir a few hours later and there was Ben and his family arriving for tithing settlement.  They had woken Ben up to go so he wasn't happy, so Melanie took the boys to the nursery again and played for a while.  It's good to serve, especially when we love them so much.

Yesterday afternoon Madeleine and Carolyn had a bath.  Erin has taught Madeleine that if you get water in your eyes you should keep your eyes closed and cry, and only stop when you get a towel to dry your eyes off (Carolyn is trying to teach her it's FUN! but she hasn't learned yet).  In a bath, water is inevitably going to get in the eyes, especially if she doesn't obey the "look up while I'm rinsing you off so the water runs back!" rule.  So of course the inevitable happened and Madeleine started the necessary cry.  It was better than normal.  "I need a towel!" (as I'm still rinsing, knowing she's perfectly fine) "I need a big towel!" (then raises her hand way up high, with eyes still closed and still crying) "I need a towel this big!"  Must have been a loooot of water in those eyes.