Last night at "game night" we were playing Pictionary... you know the game where someone draws something and everyone else has to guess what it is.  But since the kids are very young, we adjusted the rules a bit and explained that you could only draw things that 3 year olds could actually guess.... sorry, barely 4 year olds could guess.

So Lawya, age 9 (which has a new nick-name, by the way - more on that in another post) was up first and promptly didn't listen to the "don't draw anything too hard that the girls can't guess" rule and drew the first item -which was an XBox360. 

Next was Island Boy, age 7 and he again missed the "nothing too complicated please" point and drew a rocket.  Not just ANY rocket... a "water rocket" was the ONLY right answer.

    "Ok, guys, these things aren't something that the girls can possibly guess, so please - next time, nothing too complicated please!" or something close to that is what the boys were told for a THIRD time.

Up next was Pickles and she started drawing little shapes....
lot of them....
    "rocks" - said Island Boy but nope, that wasn't it
in a weird configuration....
    "candy" - said Lawya but nope, that isn't it either
Hmm, what could this possibly be...
    "a tree" - I said but that wasn't it
then she started coloring them....
    "a lolly pop" - said Explora which was only met with Pickles shaking her head no
    "a star" - said Island Boy, but that also wasn't the right thing...

Can you guess what this is?

 

Now all this time Lola has been sitting quietly... thinking and listening... and right as we were all about to give up, she says:
    "it's space"  (as in outer space... the universe)
to which Pickles turned around, smiled from ear to ear and replied"
    "yup, that's it, good job sissy!"

(stunned silence fills the room)


But wait, it gets better... 
Next was Lola, which started drawing a blue zig zag line, like this....



    "mountains" - was not it...
    "a knife" - wasn't it either...
    "a heart-beat" I said jokingly, as the only thing it reminded me of was a heart-beat on one of those monitor thinggies you see in the hospital.
    "YEAH, Mommy got it, it's a heart-beat", said Lola as she returned to her seat.

(insert the stunned silence thing again here)

(insert a couple of grown-up's feeling really stupid here)

I honestly think the girls were trying to make a point, so we'd never ever change the rules of any game, to tone it down to their perceived "level". 

Point taken, my little space and heart-beat girls, point taken!