december 2nd:
play a game as a family
we played candy land while daddy was working.
kate loves playing games but hasn't really embraced how you actually play a game.
she usually just wants to play with the game pieces and walk them around the board.
i didn't expect much more when we got the game out this time.
but, she surprised me!
she was totally ready for this game and finally grasped the concept of moving her green gingerbread man to the colored spaces her card indicated - not just the green spaces on the game board.
as we played, kate was killing it and just when we thought she was going to win the game, she picked a card that sent her back to the beginning.
she didn't like that idea, but was a good sport about it.
she kept trying to clear the board back to the top on each turn and i had to gently remind her about going all the way around the spaces again.
for any of you that watch parenthood, i wondered if i was going to have a sidney/poor sport/meltdown episode of game playing :)
she made her way around that game board again and wouldn't you know, she won after all :)
kids, they have all the luck!
when we were done, kate and beth played to their own rules ;)
1 quick quips:
As soon as I started reading that you played Candy Land I thought of that Parenthood episode. I wish I could find one of those old Candy Land boards that I played on as a kid.
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