We have a Million Games in our house. Birthday's bring games - Santa brings games - Grands gift games - we havea a Million Games (seriously). Remember when you were a kid and you took the games and made them into other games - then you lost all the pieces and your parents couldn't play the games, you couldn't play the games, but no one threw the games away. I remember doing that with Risk. I took all the little pieces and used the big world map to play as if the pieces were traveling and living in the different countries (I should know geography better now that I think of this). Oh, and then there was that Spill the Beans game - I had the bean pot, but no beans. Anyway, our kids are doing this now. Spidey takes Jenga and for the love of him makes towers and other structures, because of this we are currently missing 1 piece (we have Lincoln Logs, but he doesn't build with the toy/game intended to do building with - probably because it isn't creative enough to do exactly what you are supposed to do with exactly what you are meant to do it with) - he also takes our Boggle game, tips the timer and then uses the cubes to create 3 letter words (this we are not going to discourage). Babers does this too, but he just likes to throw the small pieces all over the place. SuperStar kinda does this, but really she will set the game up correctly and then leave it out - thus enabling Babers addiction to throwing things (this is most annoying with puzzle pieces).

We are trying to re-educate them on the use of games - our concept to do this is very unique - you may want to try this as it is really working - we are actually playing the games with the kiddos. We are doing Family Night on Sundays (this is a non-negotiable time where we are all together doing something - right now the non-negotiable time is meant to keep BigGuy and I in line as there are always things that need to be done, later when the kids are teens it will be non-negotiable for them) and we find that since we have broken out the games they are starting to be used appropriately (well, maybe we are fooling ourselves, but we feel better about the fact that they are at least being used for what they were created for in addition to the other creative uses the kids have found).


This is SuperStars fav game - Twister. I was left out because apparently someone has to be the spinner. Honestly, I didn't mind because I got to take pictures to share.

Surprisingly this game is one the Entire Family can play. See Babers there in the front? Did you see him in the last pic? He randomly inserts himself into whatever position everyone else is in - although he moves completely and doesn't have his hands or feet on anything we have called. But he is in there and he is having fun. When Spidey fell out Babers also made himself fall to the ground and said, "I out".

Then there were two. BigGuy really gave it his all to hang with SuperStar (or he at least did a great acting job when he lost his balance).

In the end SuperStar was our Twister Champ - how could she not be? Look at that flexibility!!