We picked up a fun new game at the toy store yesterday. It’s called Bananagrams, and it’s similar to Scrabble. But there’s no board, and you don’t have to take turns, and the tiles are stored inside a banana.

We’ve been enjoying it, even though it’s a little slow with two players (there are 144 tiles, and the object is to use them all up) and Rockford keeps playing made-up words like “gits” and “ix.” When I challenged him on that one, he said “Ix” is “the planets the Mentats come from.” Sadly for Rockford, it still doesn’t count because proper nouns aren’t allowed.

We played a few rounds after I watched the very last “Gilmore Girls,” which I thought was just lovely.