Yeah, that title is quite the mouthful. However, how awesome is this giveaway? I am so jealous that I don’t get this opportunity, but instead, one of you will!

Telestrations is a twist on the classic “telephone game”. You all remember how that is played, right? One person says a sentence and it gets passed along the chain. By the end, the sentence is usually not what you started out with. That is exactly how this works. Everyone plays at the same time. Each player gets their own erasable sketch book, dry-erase marker and word card. A roll of the die determines each player’s secret starting word (example: doggie bag. You draw a dog and a bag.). The timer gets turned and everyone draws their word. After 60 seconds, everyone passes their book to the player on their left. Then each player takes a few seconds to guess what they see, write it down, and passes again. The timer is turned and everyone draws what they see. (This person draws a man holding a bag). This play continues until everyone’s sketch book passes by every player and returns back to its original owner, at which point it’s time to see what happened to each secret word. (The next person may think that the man with the doggie bag is a purse snatcher.) Points are scored if the last guess matches the secret word, and for favorite sketch and written guess in each book. Yes, this game is as fun as it sounds. We tried it here, and you will literally pee your pants laughing at some of the stuff that gets drawn and how messed up the original secret word gets. (The ages on this game is 12 and up. However, with some modifications, anybody who can read can play.)

So now that you are jumping up and down yelling that you want to play this, I’ve got the giveaway for you. One winner will win a pass to get into the fair on November 20th and at 2 p.m. (at the Telestrations booth) get to play against the inventor of this awesome game! The winner of the game will receive a supply of USAopoly board games just in time for holiday gifting! You will be playing for my blog (no pressure LOL). Here’s what you need to do:

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We stopped by my inlaws house last night.  On the way there, our local radio station (Q101) has a feature called “This Request Sucks”.  It is an alternative and rock station, and people can call in during this time and request songs that suck.  Well, yesterday, we listening while the “This Request Sucks” was on.  A song came on and I said to Bill that I thought it was Miley Cyrus.  Madison said, “It’s Hannah Montana”.  At the end of the feature they tell you who all the songs were by.  Well, guess what?  The song was by Hannah Montana.  Here’s where my confusion comes in.  We don’t watch Hannah Montana.  I have never seen the show.  It isn’t something we discuss in my house.  How did Madison know that was Hannah Montana?  Any ideas?

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This is going to be a short and sweet post. The time change here is killing me. I just got back to the hotel a little while ago. Now, on my time, its 12:30 here, so I am dragging major butt! Sony gave us all three cameras we got to try out. We got a SLR camera, a cybershot, and a camcorder. After I get home, I’ll link them up and show you some pictures. I am just too darn tired right now. All I have to say is that Sony is awesome for doing all this for us! This is beyond cool. I am so glad I came. My goal is to get some of the pictures I took downloaded, so you can see how awesome these cameras are. However, that’s not going to happen until I get some sleep.

Crazy thing happened at lunch today though. We sat outside and ate for about an hour. I got sunburned. My arms are bright red right now. I didn’t figure I’d need sunscreen for an hour. Obviously, I was wrong!  However, this is California, so I guess I should have expected it.

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The little boy is now walking a little more. I think we have a total of 8 steps in a row now. He’s only ten months, so I think that is pretty darn good. I have to laugh though — I just saw an infomercial about those alarm system monitoring things that you put on your cupboards so you know your kids are playing in there. I guess my question is how do you not know that they are in there. The only cupboards Will can get at have pots and pans in it. It isn’t like he’s exactly quiet when playing in there! (Though, he did figure out how to get the dishwasher open yesterday. I am not sure if Bill just didn’t close it tight or what).  Now, a system on my back door, is something I can go for.  It is too easy for the kids (specifically Madison) to sneak out the back door.

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Guess what? Will finally started walking with his left foot! I didn’t need market research to tell me he would be it when he was good and ready. However, it was a tad frustrating to watch him only take a step with his right foot and stop. We actually got him to take several steps in a row tonight!

I also think he’s getting another tooth! I think I saw and felt it. Its an upper one next to his front teeth.

Yesterday, I put a bottle in front of him and he said “Ba ba”.

I can’t believe how fast my little boy is growing up!

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