Yet Another Mandy Story

This morning as we all congregated in the living room after breakfast, Mandy decided to look at at book called The Great Dinosaur Mystery And The Bible. This book is filled with pictures of 'prehistoric' wild life. For several minutes she sat on the couch staring intently at the pictures. Suddenly she turned the page, saw a picture of a Mammoth and shouted, "Look! It's a Possum!"
Now guess what her favorite movie is.

Mandy and Collin

The other day, I was sitting on my bed desperately trying to do my school work and stay awake at the same time when Collin burst out laughing and walked in to tell me what was so funny. Apparently, Mandy had decided she wanted to play with a wooden truck of Collin's. Collin grabbed the opportunity.
"You want this truck?"
"Yes."
"Okay, say 3."
"3."
"Say 4."
"4."
"Say 75."
"75."
"Now say Gastrophyliosophylus." (Yes, he made it up.)
"4?"
I suppose for it to be truly funny you would have had to be there but I just had to post it just for the benfit of seeing those who tell me "You need a life" eat their words.

The fun things we do as a family

Yesterday, Collin came up with a new game. An educational one at that! It's called the rhyming game. It's probably been made up before, but one person starts a round with a sentence. Then that player and everyone else has to come up with more sentences that not only have to do with the topic of the original sentence but the last word also has to rhyme with the last word of the original sentence. The person to come up with the last rhyming sentence wins. The catch is, you can't use the same word more than once unless it's a homonym. (This is a great game to play in the car during a very long road trip.)
Collin started last night's round with "The bible is my guide." Boy did that round last forever! Timmy didn't actually join that round, so it was just me and Collin. I'm pretty sure we used just about all the words that rhyme with guide. Mom and Dad were getting kind of annoyed because it was waaaaaayyy past bedtime and we were still competing. Finally I gave him my last sentence, "My foolishness the bible often implied," and told him that if he could manage to think of another sentence, he would be the winner. I did this for two reasons: 1.) I needed to go to bed too and 2.) I honestly didn't think there was another word left.
Well, five minutes later I lost the game to "With the devil, the bible with never be allied."
What a game.