More Games

On Sunday the game theme continued at our place. It started with a quick game of chess between father and daughter. For some reason Brianna seemed really interested in the game and since it’s one of Trav’s favorites he sat down to “play” a game with her. Of course, it’s a complex game so they didn’t really play, there’s no way Bree could get the different ways all the pieces move around. But, once again I was highly amused when Travis actually did try to loosely explain how the game went and the names of the pieces. “This is your king….” I ended up laughing out loud several times while Bree shamelessly moved her pieces however she wanted (in order to make the horsies kiss or putting one of her daddy’s black pieces that he helped her “capture” back on the board with her own) and Trav tried to keep up. A few times Brianna ended up even saying a few relevant things like when she shouted, “Move your queen!” or when she said, “It’s your turn!” Yep, it was a riot. But hey, who knows, if we start now she might be a chess genius by age 5. Who knows?? For this first lesson though they both got tired of it pretty quick and then they were on to other games…