It was just a pitiful sight! She started chugging first thing in the morning. 100 proof H2O. Dangerous stuff. It should be regulated. People drown in it all the time. Although not usually from a sippy cup.
A sippy cup?
Okay, Jojo has some congestion, so it goes down easier in a sippy cup. She also requires entertainment.
Her: "Lets play a game."
Me: "I am not playing Reptile Bingo!" What is Reptile Bingo? Exactly what you think it is. A bingo board with pictures of snakes and lizards (and their names...its educational, of course), and a deck of cards to match. Actually, it is interesting in a nerdy sort of way, but after you've played it fifty thousand times, well....
Her: "No, lets play cards." She slaps the deck on the table.
Me: "What card game?" But the deck has the name of the game on it: "War." I never knew you needed special cards to play "war." Actually, you don't. But if a company wants to make money selling cards these days, they need to come up with gimmicks. Its just a regular card deck, but it says "war" on it, and the picture cards have cartoon dogs and cats instead of kings and queens.
Me: "Do you know how to play 'War'?"
Her: "Ummm... no... teach me!"
This looked like it might be interesting. Higher number beats lower number. That was easy enough. The picture cards were more of a challenge.
Her: "Can I have the cat cards and you can have the dog cards?"
Me: "No, it doesn't work that way. These are actually kings, queens, and jacks. We take what we get. But the picture cards are higher than the number cards. A king beats a queen and a queen beats a jack." I wondered how to illustrate this point. The cartoon dogs and cats were not clearly hierarchical. "Do you know what a king is?"
Her: "The king is a guy who can do whatever he wants." Hmmm. Maybe the kid is smarter than I thought.
Me: "Haha, just remember the higher card wins, but if its a tie, then its a "war," and...etc."
So we played our cards. She put down a six and I put down a ten.Me: "Okay, see how it works. I have a ten and you have a six. So I win this one and I get to take it."
She seemed quite thrilled by the whole thing. She took another swig, squeezed the cards in her hand and looked at me and said, "Can we play again?"
