Saturday, September 06, 2008

Puzzled Anew

I went to Baclaran this morning. On the way home, I noticed a make-shift stall along the road selling these 4x4 puzzle games. It reminded me of the number puzzle game we (still) had at home somewhere. I used to bring that puzzle along with me to keep the children busy unfortunately, whenever we'd go out, the puzzle was a far second to the DS. But since I have reinstated the mandate that the children should control their TV/computer/DS time, I figured I should give them a decent alternative.


I hoped the kids would enjoy playing with the ones they were selling on the streets because they had Disney characters on them unlike the (boring) one we've had for over bleep-bleep years. I decided to get two.

When I got home, I showed my loot to MyGirl. She was immediately interested and picked up the one which had Minnie Mouse, as expected. She quickly got the hang of the puzzle and figured out how to move the tiles around.

Seeing MyGirl playing with the toy piqued RD's curiosity. He was happy to discover that I had acquired two puzzles and that the second one didn't have Minnie on it.

He set out to solve his puzzle.

When he finished his puzzle, I decided it was picture taking time. I wanted to include the museum-worthy number puzzle. Fortunately, MyGirl knew where to find the number puzzle. Soon afterwards, she solved her puzzle while RD played with the other one.

Here are the pictures.

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