Games

Brendan is loving them lately. We've been playing Memory, Candyland, Chutes and Ladders and Bingo for awhile. He's also made up his own versions of Scrabble and Boggle when I brought out those games. I mentioned in the last post how he just got Scrabble Jr. and Yahtzee Jr. with the Disney characters, and is enthralled with both games. When he first started playing games he didn't really care about whose turn was whose, about who won, or rather even realizing that there was a winner. For example, during Chutes and Ladders he'd spin more than once if he didn't like the first spin, but not to get to a better square, but say if he got a 6 and just decided he liked a 3 better, he'd spin to get that. But now he really gets the concept of winning and wants to win. At this point I have no problem letting him win and have been doing it with Scrabble Jr. But with Yahtzee, it's really pure luck, whatever the dice turn up. So far he's won more often than me, but I can already see he's not really liking it if I win. And while we're playing Scrabble Jr., he'll start counting up red stars to see how many each of us has and is always gratified if he has more. I find it very interesting to see how this is developing. My nephew who's 4 has understood this concept for a long time and gets crazed if he doesn't win. I'm hoping we don't go there.

He's also been telling me for the last few weeks that on December 21st that we're going to play a game called Desser that apparently involves green letters. I've tried several times to get an idea of what he thinks Desser is, but he never really elaborates. It should be interesting tomorrow to see what he comes up with especially as I will likely be home again all day, darn, freakin', @$%#$% transit strike.