Starting Them Young

Ally and Drew got A LOT of games for Christmas. We are heading into a stage of game playing which is really fun unless you are a person that hates to lose. We have enjoyed Hungry Hippo, Kerplunk, Sequence for Kids (this one rocks), Go Fish, Uno, Veggie Tales one, Backyardigans and Dancing one (not a good one for me or Jason). It has been interesting and difficult to teach taking turns, who deals, who starts (because you know that the oldest starts and Ally thinks that is her).

Drew has really surprised me too. He is not quite able to hold his cards without showing the neighbors, but he is a good Go Fish player. He also only likes to ask one person for cards - preferably Daddy. He loves to say, "Go Fish" and squeals like a little girl when he gets a match!

We are heading into a stage in our family that has no babies and the kids are old enough to have family game night and it not be a complete disaster!

On a side note for the proud Mom and Math teacher: My daughter randomly counted by 10s the other day (learned on her own), skip counted to 14 (2, 4, 6...), skip counted backwards from 9 (9, 7, 5, 3, 1) and told me that 3+3+3+3+3+3=18! She has a knack for numbers - I wonder where she got that???