Games
We've been playing lots of games -- formal and otherwise at our house. It seems that games are Livvy's way of processing the things she encounters and learns. The games are elaborate, and usually involve lots and lots of repeating. Here are a few that we've played in recent weeks.
Beeping Game
One of the most elaborate games that Livvy has been playing recently she calls the Beeping Game. It's loosely based on shopping. She brings items, usually her fuzzy friends, and asks you to either hold the phone up to them or swipe them across the table or laptop and then bag the items.
This game is very repetitive, and involves many fuzzy friends, and many switching of roles. She likes to add twists at each round like, take the fuzzy friend, swipe across the beeper, kiss it and then bag it. Repeat. Adjust now by asking "how much?" after swiping, but before kissing.
I've played this game 400 times.
Library Man
Another recent game involves Livvy sitting on the couch, reading books to you. She very quickly summarizes the book, and then says, "You be the library man."
Then you get up, read the book. At one point I turned the book toward me so I could read the text, and she said "Hey! Library man! I can't see."
The next time she took her turn as the library man, she said "Can you say 'I can't see'?"
It's all about mimicking and adapting these days.
I've played this game 400 times.
The Grandma Carol Game
We've been playing a game where Livvy pretends to be Grandma Carol, and puts her fuzzy friends to sleep. Then she leaves, and says, "Can you cry when I go to work and make me come home and give you pats?"
So, she leaves, and I pretend to cry and she quickly returns and says, "No, not you! Make the pelican cry."
So then I hold the pelican and pretend to cry. She the runs around the hose and asks me to cry louder, and the she returns and says, "Pelican, are you ok?"
Once she is satisfied, "Grandma Carol" leaves again, and starts the whole process again with the second of her forty fuzzy friends.
Yup. 400 times.
Board Games
We've been able to play some board games, which I think is quite a big milestone. We're primarily focused on matching games -- we have both a Thomas the Tank Engine and a Goodnight Moon -- both matching games. She likes both just fine. At the start, she lost interest about 1/3 the way through the game. Now she plays all the way to the end, moves the game pieces back on the floor and gleefully says "Again!"
We've played these games 400 times. But now we're experts.



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