A Night Full of Laughter

We started our Friday Family Game Nights. The first night was a HUGE success. We were able to successfully introduce a couple new, but classic, games to the girls this week: Bingo, Go Fish and Guess Who.

When you are in Florida you have to play bingo...especially using dabbers (for you BINGO novices, that is the dot markers that are like a giant marker that you use on disposable board). And don't you know we have a cage to mix up our number balls too.

 Go Fish was a bigger success then we thought possible, the girls were able to hold their cards and easily understood the concept and even developed basic strategy.

 The always competitive Karl taking advantage of the photo op ;)

 The girls just loved the way Karl told them to "GO FISH"

 One of my all time favorites as a kid was Guess Who.

Elli Dew sat in her bouncy chair the entire time and just enjoyed the family laughter while using two hands to suck her thumb. 

Now I said it was a night full of laughter...that is because after the games were cleaned up and the girls were in the shower, Elli laughed for the first time! It must have been her observing all the laughing we were doing while playing the games.

So I was giving her her nightly antibiotics, which is a two person job. Someone has to hold her at a certain angel so she doesn't choke, someone has to slowly squirt it in her mouth and then someone has to wipe the medicine she spits out. Well, I asked Karl to be on wiping duty. For some reason tonight she was actually swallowing all the meds. Karl said to her "You didn't need me to be on wiping duty" in a fun daddy to baby voice and she laughed at him! Karl has never been home for the first laugh so not only was he here but he 'caused' it! YAH! I think she is going to be a daddy's girl!

What a great night we had as a family of wholesome fun