Full Contact Chess

Mom is at her sewing night, and Maddy is at Talia's b-day party, so I decided to play game of chess with the boys before bed. We sat on the floor in the living room to play; Josh was on my team. After some play, Ethan "ate" both of our Knights. Josh said, "Dad, stinka Ethan ate ow'a Knights!", and promptly tackled Ethan. I "talked" them apart and we continued playing. Later I checkmated Ethan (that's right, I prevailed). He lunged accross the chess board and tackled me. Josh wanted in so he tackled me too...yes, he was my teammate. The chess game quickly morphed into wwf. Of course, all that matters is that I won. Sure he's five and a half...a win is a win.

Book of Mormon Travels...via Jet Pack

Today Ethan was sitting on the couch perusing a "coffee table book" titled, "Light From The Dust, A Photographic Exploration into the Ancient World of the Book of Mormon". He was reviewing page by page, and asked, "Dad, do you want to look at this Book of Mormon book with me? It shows where the Book of Mormon was". I sat down on the couch and looked at it with him. Pretty cool. In it there is reference to rivers which he determined would be teeming with gators. When we finished, he thought for a moment and declared, "Dad, if I would have been in The Book of Mormon with Nephi, I would have used a jet pack so the aligators wouldn't get me".

"Good idea", I said.