You Sunk My Battleship!

Not necessarily because there's a movie coming out, but Daddy did decide to try a game of Battleship with Madison tonight.  Basically, we've done a lot of the other board games a lot lately and we were both willing to try something new.  SO, Daddy looked through the games and found that this was one that had the recommended age group starting at five years old.  Five years old for Battleship already!  That's a sign of a mature, growing child.  It's a point in life where one parent says to another, "Is she old enough to play Battleship?"  "Why, yes," the other responds.  It's just another stage of development, one you'll no doubt be reading about in Parenting books and magazines.  Anyway, we gave it a try - and Madison really did enjoy it once we got moving.  She still has a few concepts to figure out - and in her defense, this Star Wars version is actually a little more complicated than the original.  But she was having fun calling out the spaces to see if she got a hit or not.  In fact, at one point Daddy had to sadly declare - just like in the old commercials:  "You sunk my battleship!"

Although it wasn't technically sunk.  It was a spaceship, so I suppose it was obliterated.


"You're all clear, kid, now let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Han Solo