Juegos

Joaquin has become quite the games junkie.  First and foremost is of course Angry Birds.  We have had to be very firm about the amount of time he plays on the Kindle, but it's had unexpected side benefits.  He gets really creative about it even when not playing.  He draws adorable pictures of Angry Bird levels he's made up, complete with the menu buttons, etc.  He thinks up new Angry Bird games and tells you about them, ad nauseum.  He loves to play with Mommy or Daddy as well as to play the Angry Bird tag game he made up with his buddies.  He's even made up Angry Bird's chess.  Seriously.  So, Angry Birds actually turns out to be more than a video game for him.  He's also taken up Checkers and Chess.  Daniel taught him chess a long time ago, but he was a little young to enjoy it.  However he became interested again when he got it on the Kindle, as well as Checkers.  In order to limit screen time, we're starting to play them on an actual board.  Here's Daniel and Joaquin playing chess.  Apparently Joaquin 'won'.  According to Daniel he actually is getting better at strategizing.  He's also much more into computer in general.  He really likes different fonts.  I let him play on Word one day and came back to find he had managed to change the font all by himself.  He's also trying out Excel and Power Point.  He doesn't quite understand the point of Power Point, but it's cute nonetheless.  And to complete the little boy engineer picture, he is math crazy.  Seriously, he actually likes to learn math concepts with Daddy.  He can do basic addition and multiplication, some subtraction, very basic fractions and now they're working on negative numbers.  I'm torn over whether I'm proud or kind of scared.  I don't understand someone who actually seems to like math.