Today I’m participating in We Play at Childhood 101.
Lately Cutie Pie and I have been having a hot cocoa date while Sweet Pea is napping. It’s our special time and fills a short time in the afternoons since Cutie Pie hasn’t been napping. We almost always play memory, or as he calls it the matching game. It’s the first real game he’s learning to play and he seems to be a pro at making up his own rules!
The other day when we played he didn’t make a match, but tried to justify taking the cards by saying how they were alike! (Both animals were brown and had faces…) Then he tried to give me a match he made saying he would win if he had less cards. Then he kept turning card after card over to find the match because he was losing.
I love our daily hot cocoa dates. They force me to slow down and really giggle with him, to see in his mind a little sneakiness forming and finding its way into the world in his little 3 yr old ways. They daily remind me how much I love him!
my son seems showed some surprising results with memory games – better than me!! we play them on the computer, but i really should get me a cardboard version too – or make one, come to think of! very nice, the special time with cocoa and play ๐
I love your hot cocoa time with your son. That’s a great tradition. We do the memory game with all the cards up. That’s my son’s speed! We played this matching game my dad emailed, you might like it: http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=XE13117730 (you’ll have to copy/paste it into your browser). My son and I played this like 5 times in a row today!
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That sounds like a beautiful break time together. So cute when children start making up their own game rules ๐
@Tracey M.
Tracey, I had never thought of that before, playing with the cards up. Great idea! I’ll check out the link, thanks!
Tricia
We love playing memory here too and have at least 3 sets of cards for it, as well as regular cards. One of our sets is of the characters Charlie & Lola, and she makes up her own rules too, so it’s only right when playing that we do the same ๐
I was just thinking of that episode of Charlie and Lola too!! It’s great that he is looking for similarities and creating his own rules – it’s a shame when we stop doing that…we lose a bit of our creativity when we learn to conform ๐
I can’t wait to start all that again with my little toddler!
xxxCate
We just started game playing. We play Candy land. He totally doesn’t get it but he loves his time with mommy. I got him memory for Christmas and I think it’s going to be a hit! Enjoy your one on one time. ๐