Sunday, April 10, 2016

April 9

Today, after a week in the Hawaiian sun and sand, we boarded a plane to head back home. But before we left Kaua'i, we played a few final games of Monopoly and Sevens.

We haven't historically played many board games and virtually no card games at all; the kiddos have always been a wee bit too young for it to be any fun (for us or for them). But this trip put a new side of Abby, Isaac, and Brady on display for me. For the first time, I saw them as capable game-players: Brady tried his hardest to wear the kingmaker hat while playing Monopoly, and all three of them did quite well playing card games. It was rather jarring to realize how much more sophisticated and capable they are now, and it was amusing to realize that we could actually start to have real, live family game nights involving all of us. (Well, almost all of us, of course, though I'm sure Logan plays along in his own way.)

Yep, they're growing up. And that's a good thing indeed.

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