Balderdash

This game makes us laugh!:

....especially when we are playing it with Maddie.  When Ila (my niece who is visiting for spring break) picked the word "mooncalf", Maddie immediately laughed and said, "I know what everyone will write for a definition for that word!"  We all asked what she thought everyone would put, and she said, "The calf that is born to the cow that jumped over the moon!"  I love her quirky way of looking at everything.  Yes, she is the one that ended up putting that the definition of mooncalf was "A calf that was born mooning the farmer."  She didn't get a whole lot of points for her definitions, but she got lots of laughs!!

I also enjoyed Isabelle's creative definitions. The one she wrote for the word 'dorp' was: "A creature that never comes out in the sun; it was one of the most beloved in the 1900's.  But now they have been bitten by the evil devilish ram.  Now the sparks of evilness have come over it.  Everyone can only fear it."

This was a different game they were playing before Balderdash.  They have been playing a lot of games!
l-r: Ila, Isaac, Isabelle, Nolan, Madeline, Caden, Gracie, Abram, Kami

Kami came away with the most believable definitions, and therefore the most points.  She would have fooled us even more if her very knowledgeable brother wasn't around to cast doubt on some of her definitions.  For the word "graben" she wrote "A tropical fish that migrates to the tropic of cancer each year during the summer equinox."  Everyone was voting for it, and Caden said, "I don't know...I would vote for it except that it says 'summer equinox' instead of 'summer solstice.'

Happy Spring Break everyone!!