Living in the three dimensional world...
I’m always on the lookout for recreational activities for the boys that do not involve a keyboard and mouse. I like to play games with them but don’t always have a lot of time for protracted endeavors like Monopoly or Heroscape. Blink is a good card game. We can pull out the cards and play a game or two in less than five minutes.

I splurged a little with the educational budget and sent for Go fish for art (Instead of "fishing" for numbers ("Give me all your sevens") children ask for sunflowers (van Gogh), ballerinas (Degas), and the subjects of dozens of other beautiful paintings...) These games should be fun. Of course, when I described them to Chuck, he asked if "ears" are a category in the van Gogh deck. What a chip off the old block. I described the cards to friend at work as having categories such as "sunflowers, starry nights, ears...you know, the typical van Gogh stuff."

The catalog which had the Go fish cards had a really cool book, too. Won’t mention it here since I may hold it for the boys as a Christmas present. (Chuck and Eddie check in here from time to time. ) Hope it doesn’t come shrink-wrapped. I want to look at it NOW!