Games afternoon

Yesterday, we had a couple of kids Erika's age over to play games. Luckily, Karl took a decent nap so the older kids had a chance to play a fair bit before he joined us. We played an amazing number of different games, including both multi-player and single-player games/puzzles. Now I'm just trying to figure out how many more kids could participate in something like this before total chaos ensued...

They even wound up playing with the Cuisenaire rods; Erika and I had been playing a game involving removing a single rod from a pattern and seeing if the other person could deduce what color it had been. As a slightly more advanced version, we'd also been replacing the single rod with two rods that, together, were the same length. Anyway, Erika wanted to share this game with the other kids, so we did that for a while. It was too bad I hadn't yet received my order of additional rods, as the kids would have enjoyed building and making patterns with the rods if there'd been more of them. Of course, I got the additional rods today, so now we have plenty for another time!

In a way, I can't believe Erika is old enough for a games afternoon, but I'm thrilled!