Luck of the 1/4 Irish

Last week we went to school twice: Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday the teacher's announced that we would be having game day then, instead of Friday. The adults and kids each played a game of Inuktitut Snakes & Ladders. I didn't win the adult game. Logan decided he would rather just play with his game piece, instead of putting it down, rolling, and moving. In the end, every player on the kids' side was within 1 or 2 of winning; it was just a matter of who would roll the magic number first. The die went around the group about 3 times. Finally, Liam rolled the 1 that he needed for the win. And what a win it was!

That's 4 juice boxes, a box of yogurt tubes, a bunch of bananas, watermelon slices, a doodle pad, a mini stapler and plastic hand clapper things. While you are looking, you may as well click to make the image larger so you can check out the prices on the watermelon and the stapler.

Now that you have recovered....

We went back to school Friday, and lo and behold, it was game day again. And of the 3 games, Liam and his partner (not me! but the lady he has adopted as his partner - they win more often than not) won one game. A smaller prize this time, but who's complaining.... Whose mom feels a bit of guilt every time we take one of these prizes home, because there are certainly people there who need them more than we do!

I'm pretty sure his motivation for picking this prize was the picture of a pie on the tub of lard. He lives in constant hope that his mother will make an apple pie with him. Better order some extra apples....