In the afternoons I drive three kids home from school. Two of them are my small group leader's kids. I love that family and I will definitely do a longer post on them when there is more time. Let me just say this... I understand why people pay for others to pick up their kids from school or make them ride the bus. Car pool lines are extremely annoying! Also kids talk a lot especially when they first get out of school. I wish there was a word counter for how many things they all say at the same time in their outside voices during the 20 minutes in my car. Oh precious children. And it doesn't help they all have to sit squeezed in the back seat. I remember those days from carpool to Davidson. I have yet to meet a pair of siblings who can sit that close together without arguing about something. Sometimes I sit there and I swear Mac is in the back seat and I am right beside him.
After about two weeks of constant arguments and talking I decided I had to figure out something. Hello Pandora radio! I put it on Disney Movie channel and they have to guess what movie the song is from. They LOVE it. It definitely pleases the 5,7,10, and 22 year old in the car. They get in the car now and immediately ask to play the "Cartoon game". It is so funny to hear them laughing at the songs and trying to mock the character's voices. And I love it too because I love Disney radio! It plays all the good ones from Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, etc... The kids are actually getting pretty good at guessing. Hopefully this game will last...
So even though it is Monday and I have tests to study for and papers to write and a to-do list a mile long, I love having that 45 min in my car every day to let Disney remind me to put my worries aside for a bit and remember to enjoy my day!
Oh that's a good game! Wish I could use that one with Gaven but he listens to Kiss and Michael Jackson now. And I'm not so sure he would know the Disney Songs. Somehow that all escaped him. We used to play the animal game though. One person has to think of an animal and the other person has to ask yes/no questions to figure out what animal it is. So you would ask "does it live in the jungle?" or "does it have feathers" and things like that until you guess the animal...or in my case until Gaven says "oh, do you want me to tell you?" and then he tells me anyway! Maybe they will like that game, too.
ReplyDeleteI will have to keep that game in mind for when they get tired of this one! The funny thing is a lot of the movies they haven't seen but they still like the songs. You will have to make sure Max learns his Disney movies so you can play this game with him :)
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