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January 04, 2005
Games Ethan likes to play
We got him some playing cards with Thomas the Tank Engine on them a few months ago. Since then, he's learned to play two games: Go Fish and Memory. He plays with regular playing cards too, and a Winne the Pooh deck we got him. He's gotten fairly proficient at Go Fish -- we started out just laying the cards down, but now he holds them in his hands. For a while, he'd ask for something, and if you said you didn't have it, he'd say, "You sure? I'll look," and look at your hand.
And at memory he does amazingly well. We usually play with about 24 cards, and he can remember where the pairs are -- better than I can. Must be his young brain.
A while back we started a new sleepytime game: made up songs. We take turns making up short songs about two words (for example, a cat and a tunnel is one of his favorite pairs). When he does it, it's pretty simple, like, "Cat cat cat cat... tunnel tunnel tunnel." Still, it's not bad.
Posted by ktingey at January 4, 2005 08:54 PM