A morning of games

Diego loves to play board games - some favorites are Zingo and Candyland. Ricardo and I pulled out Jenga the other night and had fun playing it by ourselves. I didn't think Diego would be ready to play it so I hadn't even thought about introducing it to him. Well, when Asher was over yesterday he wanted to play it so I thought it was a great chance for Diego to learn too. He absolutely loved it. I was really impressed with his coordination. He does such a good job at pulling out the blocks very carefully and placing them on the top ever so gently. We played it several times this morning and Alexia finally learned NOT to knock it over!
After Jenga, we played Zingo which is one of my favorites since Alexia is able to play with us.

Our first tower of the morning. It was going well until I decided to take a picture and...

...along came a little peanut to knock it down.

Below is a fun series of shots of our next tower:

And on to Zingo:

Notice how she has her yellow pieces on the right squares. I did not help with any of this. She carefully places them where they go and tries her best not to move what's already there. I think this grin shows how much she enjoys this game :)


Ok, so she does enjoy the game...but gets restless after awhile so she decided she'd rather just watch Diego and I play while she rested on the floor. She stayed like this for awhile. Funny girl!!


These pictures are from earlier this week. Diego loves painting with watercolors: