Blue's Clues

London gets up right around 5:30 every morning. She comes into our bedroom, gets as close to my face as possible, and says "ungie.. ungie" (hungry, hungry) and if I don't get up in 2 seconds (literally) she starts crying and yells "UNGIE, UNGIE!" We have to immediately go to the kitchen, get a sippy cup, and get oatmeal cooked. She goes into the living room, drags out the bean bag chair, plops down, and waits for me to turn on Blue's Clues. It's a favorite around these parts and we all watch A LOT of Blue's Clues.

One day I was trying to get stuff cleaned and Kyle was on kid duty. I heard them in the other room and they were playing blues clues, going around the house and finding "clues" and drawing them in a little notebook. There wasn't any real rhyme or reason to their clues and they were just drawing pictures. It was about nap time so Kyle and I decided to make a real Blue's Clues game out of it. I kind of felt like it would be mean for the first guessing to be "Blue wants you to take a nap!" so we did a different one first instead. I cut out some paw prints, sent Macy and London into a room to count to 20, put the paw prints around the house, and let the girls play.

The first clue was Barkley....

 She wanted some help in drawing him.

The second clue was a dog bowl...

  the third clue was dog food...

 They sat down in the "thinking chair" and Macy guessed in about 3 seconds that Blue wanted them to feed the dogs! 

 So she did...

 In the next game the first clue was her blankie...

 the second clue was her bed...

 and the third clue was her music.

She guessed that one right away too, but then when we said "okay, now we need to do what Blue wants us to do" we got a definite "this was such a set up" look from her. They had a lot of fun with finding the clues around the house, I kept the paw prints and we will for sure we playing Blue's Clues again.