Today during Emmy's naptime, I challenged Jolee to a game of UNO. We played 5 games and she won 3! So, since she beat me 3 out of 5, you can imagine that she is a pretty good player.
However, every once in a while she would put down a card that wasn't supposed to be put down (like a red Skip on top of a blue 5, for example). Anyway, when she did this, it reminded me of my Grandpa Alvin. During the holidays when I was a kid, my family (Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, and Aunts and Uncles) would gather around the table at my grandparents house and play UNO. When it was Grandpa Alvin's turn, he would occasionally start telling a story. Well, we would all be so interested in the story that he would (very slyly) put down a card that didn't belong. We would continue playing not noticing what he had just pulled. But then all of a sudden, Grandma would bust him and say, "hey, you can't play that card!", then he would start laughing...and so would the rest of us! My Grandpa has been gone for nearly 8 years now, but that memory of him will always make me
smile.
Speaking of smiling, here are a few pics of Jolee doing just that as she whoops up on me!
The one day that Jolee does not go to school, she goes to gymnastics. She is the youngest in her class and says "gymnastics is kinda hard", but she enjoys it and I think she likes the challenge. If I were to guess her favorite part, it would be wearing her gymnastics clothes!
Whenever the phone rings, Emmy thinks it's one of her grandmas and she insists on talking on the phone. It's gotten so bad, that if I really need to talk to someone, I have to lock myself in the bathroom! Does she need her own line already? Here she is talking to her daddy.
However, every once in a while she would put down a card that wasn't supposed to be put down (like a red Skip on top of a blue 5, for example). Anyway, when she did this, it reminded me of my Grandpa Alvin. During the holidays when I was a kid, my family (Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, and Aunts and Uncles) would gather around the table at my grandparents house and play UNO. When it was Grandpa Alvin's turn, he would occasionally start telling a story. Well, we would all be so interested in the story that he would (very slyly) put down a card that didn't belong. We would continue playing not noticing what he had just pulled. But then all of a sudden, Grandma would bust him and say, "hey, you can't play that card!", then he would start laughing...and so would the rest of us! My Grandpa has been gone for nearly 8 years now, but that memory of him will always make me 
smile. 
Today was a beautiful fall day. Grady took advantage of it and raked the leaves in the backyard for the girls to play in. They had so much fun jumping in it, burying each other, and raking them back up to do it all over again!
