Today is Wednesday, so that means Haba Orda, or German game day, for the Kinders. I haven’t a clue about how to play any of the games because they’re all in German. I usually pick out tangrams-like games and picture-matching-type games. Sometimes, the kids are able to figure them out, but other times, well, 90 percent of the time, they only play with the pieces. They love to dump the game pieces in the play sink or in different containers and make-believe play. Today, one of the little boys was playing a poker type game with alphabet cards and apparently, I was always losing, while he always won. Imagine that, right? Haha. Well, the games usually get very old with the kids very fast since they have attention spans of gold fish. So they end up
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