family fun night: putting it all together

The choice for family fun night last weekend was: game or puzzle?

Perhaps seeking after the unknown, the girls chose PUZZLE and were a little overwhelmed when we opened a new puzzle that mimi and G bought them for christmas. It was a 100 peice Beauty and the Beast puzzle.  They were enthralled at the picture on the box and were anxious to open it.  

When we dumped all the pieces out on the table, Emma gave them a quick look and then asked josh:  "Where's the board?"

Oh yes, there's no board with these puzzles.  We jumped into Big Girl Puzzles. 

After a quick survey of the situation...

...and hearing Emma's thoughts on how to best go about it all...
...we decided to divide and conquer.  Daddy and Emma started to work on outside pieces with borders, and mantha got stuck with...you guessed it...looking for all the pieces with yellow.  
I was really impressed with Emma's problem-solving skills. Sure, she wouldn't be able to do it on her own yet, but josh let her do a lot of it by herself - including making her share of mistakes.  But she also proved daddy wrong more than a few times!  She did a great job!
It really was sufficient for a Family Fun Night activity, because we all had to work together and it actually took a long time.  But here's the hard workers, proud of their big accomplishment!