Games

For his birthday C got two games. Ticket to Ride First Journey because we have the grown-up version and really enjoy playing it. The adult game isn't hard but it does require a lot of strategy and C isn't super strategic yet so we thought the simplified version would be a good place to start.

Then he got this gumball math game because my guy is prone to rushing through math problems and making sloppy mistakes. (Because in Kindergarten when you're done in math he was allowed to have free reading time and there's not a whole lot my kid would rather do than read.) So I thought a math fact game to really boost his confidence and memorization would be a nice addition to our summer.

Turns out, they are perfect activities for this post-tonsillectomy no running and jumping thing we've got going on here.

Yesterday a friend took M for the morning so she could play outside and get some energy out. So we played games!

We played two rounds of Ticket to Ride First Journey. We tied the first game and he won the second.

I only helped him in that I got him the cardholder to make his life easier and pointed out that he had some of his routes already. (Because they were short and part of other routes of his.)

The math game went on for a long time. If you drew a pop gumball you were supposed to put your whole stack back in, but with two players that would have made the game really long. (With 90 math fact gumballs the minimum number of turns without any pop cards in play is already 30 turns.) So we just discarded them in a separate pile with the used "pops."

Don't mind the half eaten blueberry muffin. He didn't think the plate was necessary and I've been choosing my battles lately since getting him to just sit and rest has been complicated.