Playing Together

This has been an amazing week. This picture pretty much says it all: 

That's Klailklop and Singularity playing chess. Together. Maintaining joint attention for a long-ish period of time.

Last year, all third graders at Singularity's school received instruction in chess. I was never able to get Singularity to play with me, so I never knew if he had learned or not. Now we know! 

And the thing that hooked him into it was the Super Mario chess set that we got last weekend. The power of the special interest strikes again.