Game Night ... Every Night

Other than the nights he has football practice and once all homework is completed, Collin and I have been playing card games after dinner to wind down and spend some quality time with each other.  We play for about an hour before it's time to go to his room for some quiet time (he is supposed to read during this time...and usually makes plenty of excuses why he cannot).  His favorite card game is still Uno that we started playing during our summer trip to the United Kingdom but he has learned to play the following in the last week:

• Skip Bo - This requires a special set of cards where players skillfully build their own stacks of sequentially numbered, ascending cards.  I used to play this with my cousins when visiting Mema and Pepa in the summers.  We could play this for hours!!!  Collin caught on really quick and seems to like this game.  Mimi has even play with us a few times during her Sunday afternoon visits
• Slap Jack - OK, he already knew this game but it has been more than a year since we played it.  He is a big cheater when playing this one and, I have to admit, I don't have the patience for that so it's not as fun.
• Speed - Dad taught us this game.  He used to play it with friends at the bowling alley while his mom played on a league (might give you an idea that he grew up in the 70s and 80s).  We watched a video and then played a few practice games.  Dad won each time and was sweating after each game.  Guess he is a little competitive?  Well, we knew he was and still love him.
• War - we played this game years ago so he had to relearn it...especially the rules about the secondary war when each player has the same card. 

I want to teach him Crazy Eights the next time we play.  I love this time we have together where he is not distracted by TV, the computer or electronic games.