Guessing Game

This morning Kiernan got a couple more precious hours of play in with his cousins before they had to head back to New Mexico. Above is a picture of him playing one of his favorite games, Guess Who?, with Sebastian as Thorstencito looks on and offers pointers. Guess Who? is this great game that is basically about using the process of elimination, as you would in a game of twenty questions. Kiernan has gotten to be really good at the game, routinely beating me at it, so we brought it with us to Arizona. When his cousins arrived he taught them the game and in short order they were hooked.

After a couple of rounds of the game this morning the kids decided they wanted to head outside for more tee ball. As the departure of the cousins grew imminent, tee ball was retired in favor of Red Rover, which was started by Aunt Amy. Inwardly I thought, "Red Rover? Really? Who is going to want to play that?" Well, as it turns out, everybody. Amy laid down the rules and the game was off and running, the kids having a great time dashing back and forth and breaking through the lines. The kids were uniformly disappointed when the game had to end. Good on ya, Aunt Amy!

All in all it was a great visit with the Farrell cousins, and I can tell that Kiernan is going to miss them. The only thing that would have made the visit better would have been for Cousin Dorian to have been here. Oh well, maybe next time.