Just before I took the kids to school this morning, our power went out. I immediately had plans to get into the garage and do some cleaning up of the shelves. We keep our games in the garage and they haven't been organized in a while, so that was one of the major projects I set out to do. Joe helped me round up the stray pieces that needed to make it back into games. We taped up corners of boxes that were coming apart. I counted puzzle pieces to make sure they were still worth keeping (no one likes to go through the effort of putting together a puzzle to find one or two pieces missing, right?).
As I was finishing up and getting ready to head back into the house, I remembered that Lily had been playing with the memory game in her room recently and a few pieces had been left out. Joe and I had put them back earlier, but I didn't know for sure if they were all there. I took the game into the house, spread the pieces out on the table, and began matching up the animals.
Joe didn't really understand what I was doing, and that kind of surprised me. Then it hit me that I have never sat and played memory with him. Alexis was given the memory game on her 3rd birthday from a friend and she played with it daily for the longest time. I was feeling terrible that I have never taken the time to teach Joe such a great game. It's not that we don't play games together, in fact he currently loves to play Pictureka and can beat me to finding the pictures more times than I would like to admit. I suppose since we have more games than we did when Alexis and David were little, some of them just get forgotten about.
So, today I decided to slow down and take some time to play some matching with Joe the way I used to with Alexis. Joe had a fun time looking for the animals, especially the snake. Then we built towers and knocked them over. We had great fun together, and I look forward to playing much more with those blocks in the future.
A cool tower
Evie found her own way to make a tower
Joe thought Evie's way looked easier
Friday, February 20, 2009
Taking Some Time
Posted by Keri at 11:08 PM
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I remember that matching game. Alexis was way better at it than I was and she was so little then. We love Pictureka too. We mostly play the race game and Clay can beat me every game. Good job Joe!
Hello again! How fun you blog too! I started doing it so that my sister who lives in Utah could see up to date activities in our life.
Post a Comment