In a moment of complete insanity I taught Gus how to play the card game War*. Really. And no, I do not know what I was thinking. He was fooling around with some cards, and wanted to play a game, and I was telling him about how when I was a kid I used to spend a lot of time playing card games by myself.
He kind of looked at me and then said "Like Go Fish? How could you play that by yourself?" in a very oh-dear-my-mother-is-odd-and-possibly-fragile kind of voice. So then I said, well, you know, I mostly played War. So then I showed him how it was played. And since then he's wanted to play every single day. Oh my goodness, that game could not be more boring and soporific. And let me tell you, I live for battles so I can make sure to lose them and hopefully move the game along a little more quickly. I don't know who invented this game, but yikes, it never ends.
Our last game, with me throwing it in every possible way, lasted over 45 minutes.
*For those who don't know, divide the deck evenly between two players. Each turns their top card over, highest card wins and that player takes both cards. When the same card is played by both, three more cards are played face down and a fourth face up. Highest card takes all cards. This game goes on forever.
oh dear, 45mins, i don't have 45mins to myself during the day! we've started playing checkers and i'm afraid i'm stopped letting them win because they're already so sneaky (they're 5 and nearly 4).
Posted by: pen | June 30, 2009 at 12:30 AM