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Monday, July 28, 2008

The Luck Of The Cards Is Inside You

Gilberto is playing Crazy Eights with Gabi.

Gabi: Mom, Daddy is cheating already! He keeps winning!

Me: Well, sometimes people just win a lot, and it's not cheating. Crazy Eights is more a game of luck than a game of skill, honey.

Gilberto: Yes, I am VERY lucky. Just FULL of luck.

Gabi: Well, then, I'm taking all of your luck right out of you and putting it in me!

And then she won!

Gabi: I won! Mommy, I'm lucky! I'm lucky! I have all that good luck inside me now!

It's so much fun now that Gabi is old enough to play card games. Pretty soon I'll have a chess companion. Or better yet, someone to play Yahtzee with! I get tired of playing Yahtzee by myself all of the time (though it really does help hone one's strategy).

Did I just reveal too much about myself?

Anyway, Gabi and Gilberto are now playing a rousing game of I Have More Luck Than You. Only in our house would an innocent game of Crazy Eights turn into an all out fight between a grown man and a four year old girl over who has more luck than the other.

11 comments:

  1. LOL That's the fun thing about kids. They can turn most ANYTHING into a game!

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  2. I had to laugh because I can totally see this happening when our kids are old enough to play games with us. We are a very competitive family, especially when it comes to card games!

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  3. As sharp as Gabi is, her daddy ought to teach her how to play poker. It's a great father/daughter exchange, plus it enhances math skills.

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  4. Well you know two people concentrating on the same positive outcome is more powerful then one person opposing it, so Gabi is on a STREAK!

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  5. Ohhh...you are so lucky to have a Yahtzee partner! I am jealous--that's one of my favorite games ever. But you better watch out with all the luck that she has now :)

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  6. oh friend this post made my heart smile.

    i so look forward to these random family fun nights. the things kids say...just amazing.

    thanks for sharing :)

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  7. I felt like this with Kyle's daughter this past winter! he first time when I met her, she was almost a baby and she didn't talk a lot, actually she didn't talk anything I understood! hehe! But the past winter she was talkign so much, I could understand her and do things together. It was so much fun! :)

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  8. Hahaha!
    How funny :)
    Don't you worry about honing those yahtzee skills in your spare time. You never know when you might need that skill ;)

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  9. And to think, I get kinda sad when I lose at Candyland!

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  10. I don't like playing games with my kids. Does that make me a bad mother?

    Yesterday I had to play three rounds of Go Fish with my kids and wanted to poke my eyes out!

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  11. Oh, that's something I hadn't thought of! My wife has never really got into playing chess with me, but when our baby arrives I can train it up to play! Fantastic! :)

    The Broken man

    http://theblogofabrokenman.blogspot.com/

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