Invention Convention

It was a cool, October day.

I went to pick up Sweet Pea from first grade.

She got into the car, beaming:

"Guess what!  I am going to do Convention Convention!"

Me:  "What is 'Convention Convention'?"

"I don't know!  But I want to do it!"

And that is my daughter.

She wants to do it because she can.

Later, I discovered that she was talking about Invention Convention.

"So, what do you want to invent?"

"I don't know . . . something cool!"

And then we started brainstorming.

*sigh*

Here were her ideas and our reasons why not to do them:

1)  Sweet Pea:  Something that mixes colors, like how red and yellow make orange.  Us:  Done-called the color wheel

2)  Sweet Pea:  A car that flies.  Us:  No.  Plus it would exceed the $15 budget allotment.

3)  Sweet Pea:  A robot that does all my chores and is as big as me!  Us:  How?  And everyone wants that.

So, after much careful deliberation, we decided on a game.

Sweet Pea wanted a game that involved climbing a tree and answering animal questions.

The Lumberjack was in charge of helping Sweet Pea come up with the animal questions.

"What do you call a school of fish?"

That was his favorite one.

"It's a trick question!  Get it?"

I took the liberty of omitting that one.

I am not sure if first grader's are ready for trick questions.

Sweet Pea actually had a pretty good idea.

The game was a lot of fun!

I think Convention Convention was a success!