I am a huge fan of board games, always have been. Finley has been very into counting lately, so I decided to try and "play" Hi-Ho-Cherry-O, which is a perfect first game. She loved setting up the cherries, she was so intently focused on it. After getting the game all set up, which took awhile since Finley was a touch slow, we were ready to spin. I spun first to show her how to do it. I got the "dog" symbol, so I didn't have to do anything. It was Finley's turn to spin and she got a "2". I showed her how to take 2 cherries off her tree and put them in her bucket. She took that as a sign to take ALL the cherries off the trees and try to fit them into her bucket (after two tree's worth of cherries, her bucket was overflowing) Once we got all the trees cleared, she wanted to set up again. I thought we could try the spinning and actually game playing again. No dice, it was the same, as soon as I took off cherries, she was clearing all the trees. We played her version of Hi-Ho-Cherry-O several times and she requests to play "game" now, so I know she enjoys it. The funniest part was her imitating me. We were sitting on the floor and I decided to lay on my stomach. She must have thought that was part of the game, because she did it too.
