Poker Night

The fourth Saturday of each month is the monthly poker night Jason's brother in law Jeremy hosts at their house. While the guys play cards, us women hang out with the kids and chit chat. This month poker night got pushed up a week because of Thanksgiving which just so happened to be the opening weekend of Breaking Dawn as well! So while Jason and the boys hung out at GaGa and PaPas, Marcie and I went to the movie! Was it the best movie ever? Probably not but it was entertaining and well worth it! Bri and Alli got me into the books a couple years ago and it's been interesting and entertaining to see them come to life and how they differ from what I had pictured in my imagination! Of course, there is a cheesy aspect to each one and it's way to easy to make fun of them! For example, in the first three, the main character Bella blinks incessantly (which can be super annoying sometimes) and in the second movie (New Moon) there's a scene where the character Edward takes his shirt off revealing the actors horribly ill portioned nipples!  I might be a tad (and unjustifiably) critical though...

After the movie we went back to Augusta (from the 13th street Warren theater because the Warren theaters are literally the best in Kansas as far as comfort and concessions). G.G. (Grandma McCoskey) was getting her baby fill holding Tucker while Hayden was playing with his cousin Delaney. At about 8 or so the kids put on their pajamas and continued playing. First they played with the dinosaurs, then they played school for awhile (complete with a telling of the Pledge of the Allegiance to an actual flag) and then they gave up on toys altogether and started playing with the buckets the dinosaurs were being stored in. Each kid took a bucket and put it on their heads. Hayden's of course barely fit on his big ol' noggin but he managed to get it on like a hat anyway and around the room the two of them went banging on the buckets with wooden spoons, loudly making noise like they were in some sort of parade and giggling! Around and around they went banging and laughing and about falling into each other. Next they took the buckets, turned them upside down and jumped off of them trying to see who could jump the farthest. When that became too dangerous they played "bedtime" by taking turns laying on the floor and covering up with a blanket and snoring like they were asleep. At one point Delaney jumped up and climbed up on the couch behind GaGa. This got Hayden excited and he tried running around the coffee table; except GaGa's feet were resting on the table and he went head first over her legs like he was doing some sort of gymnastic maneuver!

The kids settle down a little and went quietly into the kitchen. We continued watching Up which was on the Disney channel. A few minutes later Hayden comes running back into the living room shouting "mommy she's putting the dinosaurs in the oven!" He was pretty upset about what Delaney was doing and while I knew the oven wasn't on and that she probably wouldn't mess with it anyway I went in to check it what those two were up to. Well, Delaney was not playing with the oven. All she had done was dump both buckets worth of  dinosaurs into the unplugged and completely cool Crock Pot which was sitting on the bottom shelf of the island. It was pretty easy to get Hayden to calm down after then and I went back into the living room, chuckling the whole way.  There is never a dull moment with those two! And the best part? Little Tucker slept through it all!