Giant Jenga with the Grandkids

Liza and the kids spent some time at the house after Kenzie's and Gee's 5K run the other day.  They had a little time to kill before Lukey's baseball game later in the afternoon.  While we killed time, we set up the newly finished homemade Giant Jenga game in the backyard so the kids could play a couple of quick games.

The weather was chilly, windy and it looked like it would rain at any moment.  We could definitely use the rain but we didn't get any.  It actually feels like September and the lawn looks like a typical dry September lawn.  We really could use rain...  a lot of rain at this point.  We were able to squeeze in a couple of quick games before Liza and the kids had to run to Lukey's baseball game.  

Lukey played against Gee in the first game.  Kenzie had the winner in the second game.  Unfortunately, Ace wouldn't allow Kenzie to play so the game was cut short when Ace knocked the tower of blocks over.  

Gee and Lukey played a very good game though!  The tower of blocks was swaying in the wind as they stacked blocks higher and higher.  We were all shocked how high they stacked the pieces!  

At this point, below, the entire stack is balanced on one single piece on the bottom row.  The other two pieces from the bottom row were already placed on top of the stack...

I think Lukey is trying to steady the stack from swaying like he is standing on a high wire...  

The stack would sway more and more as each subsequent piece was removed from the stack...

As we were setting up the game, Lukey was amazed at how smooth and slick each piece of the game was when he first touched one of the blocks.  Waxing each piece was well worth the extra time spent on that.  

Now I just need to figure out where to store this giant game!