New Year's Eve

This post should have gone between Lucy's surprise party and the girls' birthday dinner, but the pictures were all taken with my phone, thus got stuck in a weird folder...and for me, out of sight is out of mind....so, here we go.

We told the kids that we were going to allow them to stay awake for the first time to bring in the New Year.  They were WAY pumped! 

At one point I lamented that I had never bought the game Cranium, as I thought that would be a great game for all of us to play.  Lucy asked me how it worked and I told her kind of like pictionary or win-lose-or-draw, except you sculpt things and act things out as well as draw.  Well....the child MADE me a cranium game.  She found these itty-bitty cards that had pictures of things and animals.  They came in 3 different colors so she assigned "draw" to one color, "act-out" to another, and "sculpt" to the last.  We made superb use of the easel Aunt Dyan, Uncle Brent & Uncle Bobby gave the kids!

Early in the evening we introduced them to some safe music videos...including some Weird Al Yankovic.  Then we began Lucy's Cranium...

Lucy drawing...

Clyde drawing...

Iris sculpting...

Stephen wearing his sculpted hat....

Lucy, Nana, & Iris guessing...

Clyde excitedly pointing at me when I guessed "moth"....

I have more pics of Nana, but she might be upset with me as it is ;)

Then we all watched "Hugo" for the first time.  Much fun had by all!

Everyone got kisses at midnight, then went off to bed!