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I haven't really tried to play a lot of board games with my kiddos. I guess I'm not so great at sitting still and playing a game myself. (I've always hated games like Monopoly. It takes hours to finish. Don't even get me started on the game Risk. I start fidgeting after about 20 minutes.) I see that this character trait has also been passed down to one of the hooligans in particular...

Merrick, bless his little Thomas the Tank Engine undies, could barely even stay in the room, let alone play the game. He loved the game, don't get me wrong...he just kept forgetting he was playing it I think. ;) He kept getting distracted by Jericho (who was playing in the other room with Billy), or the window, or sock lint, or anything. He's a distracted kind of guy, but he's Merrick and he keeps life interesting.

Tirzah did a great job too. She is pretty good with the counting, as long as you are counting to "4". It didn't matter what number she spun, she always put 4 cherries into the bucket. She can count some and knows a lot of her numbers by sight...so I'm not sure, but I think this was just a ploy since she won both rounds.

We actually lost the spinner, so I downloaded a "spinner" app. We're so high tech around here. Our TV may be from when I was in college, but we know how to make use of an iPhone by golly. I really had a good time playing with the hooligans, and I think we all learned a little bit. Some of us learned more about counting, and some of us learned a little about sitting still. ;)