Nerd Father's Day

Father's Day presents from Eli; these are truly awesome!

Power Grid, Dominion, and Dominion Seaside.

I am excited to try them out later. Not sure Eli will be playing any of these for another couple of years, but maybe mommy will.. and something to plan for my next "board game day" for sure.

Now, of course, I'll have to start succumbing to my OCD and figuring out storage solutions for the Dominion cards... :)

Session Report: The Stage is Set!

I bought this game for Eli after seeing a review from Games with Hayden, a few months ago. I thought it would be a nice family activity, and eventually he would understand. It's a very simple "match the animal on stage to one of the pictures on a chip on the table" game.

Tonight was the third time we've ever taken the game out. He hasn't seen it for weeks.

To our absolute surprise, we went through the "stage" one time, and he picked up every single correct match -- without hesitation!

So then we reshuffled the animals, went through it again, and played more closely to the "actual rules" (a race to see who matches first each time). Talita and I made some false matches at first, as he kept matching them correctly.. But then he started making wrong matches *on purpose*, obviously joking along with us and then picking up the right one.

I am so proud of him; he's really smart and knows what's going on. Before you know it, he'll accusing me of being a cylon across the table :)