"Holy cow! My stink is running off the table!"
"I'll trade you a stink for a chili."
Today we taught our oldest Sprout a new (to her) card game called Bohnanza. The object of the game is to plant and harvest large amounts of beans to sell for gold. The beans have names like red (an adorable little bean who is blushing because he is in his birthday suit), chili, blue, black-eyed, garden, green, cocoa, coffee, soy, wax and, of course, stink. The weather hasn't been so great this spring for outdoor play (wet and cool), so FK was looking morosely over the back of the couch, body language strongly suggesting she was bored and a little bit lonely. Realizing that in all the busy-ness of year end teaching stuff I have been neglecting my children a bit, I asked if she wanted to play a game. Her face lit up with a big grin and she gave an enthusiastic nod. After convincing my spouse to play too, the game commenced in a timely fashion and we spent an enjoyable hour planting, harvesting, trading and sometimes donating beans for gold coin. Of course, anyone listening in would have wondered what was cookin' in the kitchen.
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