Noelle, Ainsley, 3 Marker Challenge

 

Ainsley and Noelle

One granddaughter, Noelle, asked if she could ride home with me from church.

The other granddaughter, Ainsley, asked HER DAD if she could ride home with me from church.

HE did not ask me!

Next thing I knew their dad had plopped two booster seats, and an Ainsley in my backseat, LOL.

He was just a'laughing at his own audactiy of decision making.

So after chicken nuggets from McDonalds we came home to play -- color and cut, papers with mermaids.

and then 

I was introduced to the 3 Marker Challenge, evidently a game learned from a youtube video.

"No!", says Noelle, "you don't cover your own eyes, you cover mine.  Then I pick 3 markers without looking."  

"Now I cover your eyes and you pick 3 markers without looking."  And so, the 3 of us did.  And we colored our mermaids with only those 3 randomaly chosen markers.

At one point 3 y.o. Ainsley was tired of leaning on her chair and table, so she ambled down.  I told Noelle, "she's on the floor."  But from the floor Ainsley corrected me.

"I'm under the table."  

Well, then, okay......

and she further instructs us, "Don't look at mine.  Don't look at mine."

Noelle talks a bit differently, saying things like "My goodness!"

With more clarification, Noelle, in her raspy voice, explains the game.

"It's called a game that parents like, too.  The Three Marker Challenge.  Because they want their kids to "shut up" sometimes and "don't talk like that".

I'm busting a gut laughing, chuckling, 

and thorougly enjoying the coloring, these adorable  kids!