Car Games and Babies :)

    We went to Wendy's last night with some friends after church and got to talking about fun games to play in the car. Our friends thought our games were quite hilarious but when we're frequently driving almost 4 hours to fayetteville to see Brandon's family, we get creative in the games we play in the car.  The two we have played most recently are virtual hide and seek and coffeepot.  Two fun games that I want to tell you about in case you get bored in a long car ride.
1. Virtual Hide and Seek - I got this one from a website called mom's minivan or something. I will definitely be looking for that website again when I have kids. It has fun games to keep kids distracted and make the car rides go faster. Anyways, Virtual Hide and Seek. Basically you pick a place in your house to hide. The fun part is that you can be any size. So you can hide in the ketchup bottle in the fridge or in the wii (that was Brandon's hiding place). You can hide anywhere that you can actually get to (we omitted inside the walls, ceiling etc.) You then ask yes or no questions until you can find them. I actually hid two places, behind my earring holder and under a piece of carpet that Layla always pulls up and Brandon couldn't find me! It was fun.
2. CoffeePot - I'm pretty sure that Becky Fain taught Brandon this game and then they taught it to me. But coffeepot stands for a verb and again you ask yes or no questions. So for this game, I chose breathing. Sometimes the obvious verbs are the hardest for others to guess. So Brandon asks yes or no questions but instead of saying the verb you say coffee pot. So he would ask me, "Do you coffeepot everyday?" my answer is yes. (because I breathe every day) Then he asks, "Is coffeepotting dangerous?" my answer is no. Then he asks "Do you need special equipment to coffeepot?" My answer is no. And you keep doing that until you can figure it out. Coffeepotting can be any verb. Running, bullriding (that was Brandon's that I couldn't figure out), eating etc.
    These are both fun games. We also found this one called fortunately, unfortunately that would be fun to play with a group or with kids. Someone says something like "unfortunately, there is a tiger in the car" and then someone else would say "fortunately, he doesn't have any teeth" and then someone else would say "unfortunately, he needs to use the bathroom" and you keep going back and forth and see where the story takes you.
     We also like to play "what would you do if you had $.... especially when we see those big signs for 245 million dollars or whatever.

    On a side note, I keep seeing the facebook pages from people that I graduated with and they're all starting to have BABIES. I already have a few friends that have had them, but I'm excited for the day when a really close friend has one and I can hold it as MUCH as I want to.  Sadly, Brandon and I were not together when his aunt had her second child (that was a while ago) but he was the last baby that I probably could have gotten my hands on ALOT.  I did get to hold him some when he was a few months old but for some reason I don't remember being in Fayetteville a lot that year.  Now he's almost 3!!! I can't believe it.
    We're not ready for a baby. But it will be so much fun when we are! And I'm thankful that we've already started getting some AMAZING hand-me-downs from his aunt for that time in our lives :)