Cat salad and a game to look forward to

This is Esme's kitten Suki, which means 'I love you.' The cat literally does love her - will sit for hours and be carried around the house and never leave to go away unless Esme is truly mean to her (which does happen, but not often). This 'cat salad' went on for about twenty minutes. I really thought I wouldn't catch it on camera when they started doing it - but the kitten truly enjoyed it. Esme even moved the table across the room and back and the cat never jumped down until Esme was off playing doing something else. When the dog came up there was a very noticeable sneer from the cat 'I'm special, and you aren't.'



This is a game I won on Ebay for Esme out of some Etsy shop money. I think she is really going to like the pictures in it. It has four pictures in every sequence and a card that shows them in the proper sequence to match them to. I was looking for a new regular 'Memory' game for her to replace the one she has nearly loved to death... but found this instead. We are still thinking of a regular Memory for her at a later date. On a side note she has been asking daily to play with the pattern blocks I gave her before her birthday. To get the box she either describes what the pieces look like or tries to name off the letters on the side of the box. She does not always play with them with the cards but she has been setting them up in rows, finding 'all' of the pieces of one type etc etc... It was a good buy then, too.



Someone on our board called this a 'very educational' game.. and yes, it is. But I know Esme's "sensibilities", and this promises to be something she will really enjoy, as well. Her 'Memory' game is a multitude of things to her. She asks to 'play cards' every single day - multiple times a day. Sometimes she just lays them out, sometimes she matches them, sometimes they are 'confetti' that is tossed about then recollected etc etc... Sometimes she talks to the frogs and dogs and suns and planes etc and tells them what they are and tries to feed them. It's one of the biggest things about her - she can make anything into a toy that does what she wants at the moment, if the thought crosses her mind. I could probably have drawn some of these types of sequences for her, as well.. but I think she also finds some sort of great joy in boxed sets - thus the 'specialness' of her pattern blocks, the Chess game, the Upwords game etc... The original Memory game used to have a box, too -- but it became less and less whole due to EXTREME use.