Babysitting

Yesterday we had two boys come over to our house for a few hours. The older boy, Dallin, was in the Primary class that we taught last year. We offered to entertain him and his brother Gabriel for a few hours because his family is moving, and I knew it would be easier for their parents if they were out of the way. I wasn't really sure if we had enough things around the house to entertain two energetic young boys, but I needn't have worried.

They spent most of the time playing with the pieces of a few of our games. They liked the Scrabble tiles because they could practice identifying letters and spelling words. Then they played with all of the trains from our game Ticket to Ride. They also played with the tiles from Rummikub. Dallin is pretty good with his numbers and letters, so he was thoroughly entertained.

Gabriel lost interest a little, so I brought out my box of stuffed pandas and buried him in them.

They also enjoyed playing with our video rockers. They got a kick out of tipping them over. Here's a video of Gabriel playing with one of the chairs. (He didn't know I was taking a video instead of a picture, so at the end he's asking me when I'm going to his picture.)