Family Game Night

We love games at our house.  Baseball games (as you might have noticed from previous posts) of all ranks, in person or televised.  Football either in the backyard or on the TV.

There are also the individual computer games and competitive Wii games.  My guys are also discovering the fun of pencil and paper games.

But the most enjoying games we play at our house are the family night, old fashioned, low tech board games.  Card games like Uno and Skip-Bo also fall in this category.

Last night we played Sorry.  Now the little m’s get bored with the usual hoppers and that come with our games.  Even the wonderful uniquely shaped Monopoly pawns have lost their appeal for the younger set.  But my guys are thinkers.

Moments after the Sorry board is laid out on the table, they disappear upstairs to their rooms.  After much shuffling and sorting, deliberating and deciding, they reappear each carrying their team for the battle ahead.

 Mikey arranges his four Lego men carefully on the green starting circle to go over strategy.  

  Matt has chosen three Lego dudes and a Go-Go Crazy Bone for his small army and settle them on the yellow circle.  My hubby and I settle for the plain regular red and blue hoppers and the game begins.

I will say the little faces on the board brought an added level of entertainment to the game.  As opposing Lego forces passed each other on the board a miniature fight would break out.  The two would wrestle for a moment before each returned to their respective squares on the board.  At one point, one of the more mature plain hoppers had to break it up.  The poor guy caught a fist to the nose (as he had no arms to deflect the wayward punch).  When the dust settled and all hoppers returned to their squares, the game continued.

It was a fun night with much laughter.  Matt had a wonderful come from behind victory, while my plain hoppers just couldn’t keep up at all with the younger set.  The Legos returned to their rightful places in the guys’ rooms to discuss plans for the next outing.

From now on I am going to keep my eye open for some younger, faster characters to be my hoppers in the next game.  Does Barbie come in miniature?