The List

When Daddy was flying back from the east coast, he came up with the idea of "The List." The List is a list of all the many fun games we've played in the past. It helps to remind me of fun things we have not done in a while, so we don't end up doing the same things all the time. I love the list. The first thing that we did, which we had not done since forever, was to play a game of Deal or No Deal. Daddy even made some custom Deal or No Deal cards using index cards for a more realistic version of the game.

We also had our second stuffy mayoral election. You might recall that Fish surprisingly won the first election on a law and order ticket. His idea was to arm all of the stuffed animals with guns so that criminals would be deterred. He tried to run again on this platform, but it didn't work out this time. Our voting system was a runoff system. Six stuffies competed in the first round with the two highest vote-getters competing in the finals for the mayor position. The first round winners were Pikachu, who ran on the platform that every stuffy should have a pet Pokemon, and Bee, who ran on the return to normalcy platform. They defeated Piggy, who ran on fiscal sanity, Ray (a stingray), who proposed water parks, Fish, and Parrot, who ran on a gun control platform.

In the final round, Pikachu prevailed by a vote count of 25-21 over Bee. Apparently, the stuffies though return to normalcy was a boring platform.

Here's The List:

Card Games
Poker
Uno
Deal or no Deal
Card Sharks
Blackjack
Trump Game
Go Boom
Word Card Games
Pokemon Card Game

Board Games
Klutz book games
Backgammon
Risk
Monopoly
Parcheesi
Chess
Sheboygan
Pictionary
Sorry
Axis & Allies
Othello
Pente

Miscellaneous Games
Dominos
Dungeons & Dragons
Marbles
Jenga
Tiddeley Winks
Stuffy Elections
Stuffy Stories
Pass the Pigs
Let’s Make a Deal
Romans and Barbarians

Sports Games
Strat O Matic
Balloon baseball
Hall Ball
Boxing
Sword Fighting
Football plays
Golf – putting
Golf – targets
Vibrating Football
Pick ‘Em
Fantasy Sports
Tiddley Winks Baseball

Racing Games
Gravity Racing
4 Lane Racing
Figure 8 raceway/prediction
Car distance jumping
R/C Car Racing


Wii Games
MLB2k8
Madden
PE Soccer
Wii Sports
Wii Sports Resort
Wii Fit
Boom Blox
Smash Bros
Pikmin
Mario Kart
Super Mario Bros

PC Games
Sim City
Need for Speed
Crazy Machines

Experiments
Bridge Building
Parachute/airplane jumping
Air rockets – distance/time in air
Predict the urn
Rube Goldberg Devices
Simulators

Outdoors
Spaghetti ball catch
Home run derby
Scooter riding
Army Man Wars
Frisbee
Croquet
Bocce
Tennis
Foot racing
Football practice
Soccer – penalty kicks
Treasure Hunt
Kite Flying
Visit Berkeley
Visit SF
Downtown – Farmers Mkt
Swimming
Hot Tub
Amazing Race

Arts
Photo shoot
Scrapbook
Pokemon drawing
Painting
Dance Party
Comic Book Making