Star Wars Fanatics

For Christmas Abram bought Seth Star Wars face cards. Though I was not so sure about it, Abram was so very excited and was just positive that Seth would love them. Abram was right. I was wrong. I cannot believe the hours that Seth has spent playing with them. We play the occasional game of War, but mostly he lays them out in certain ways and orders that are beyond me. He studies the cards and has his own made-up games that he plays. Who would have thought?

When we were watching the original trilogy a few weeks back, Seth would make these comments throughout the movies like, "Oh, that guy's a 4," or "he's an 8." It wasn't until he said, "Did you know he's an ace?" that I clued into what Seth was talking about. The next morning I pulled out all 110 cards, each with a different Star Wars character on them, and proceeded to quiz him. I kid you not, Seth knew what each character was, a 3, jack, queen, joker, king....you get the picture.

Then just for kicks I did the same to Chase. He knew a handful....of the bad guys. Why are kids (at least mine) so obsessed with the dark and sinister bad guys? For crying out loud, he didn't know Luke's name! I mean, if you're going to know Star Wars characters you, at the very least, ought to be able to identify Luke Skywalker.

Now if only they would put this much interest and energy into learning their colors (Chase) or capitals of the world (Seth). I'm totally kidding, but you get the idea.

A video of Chase. I tried throwing in a good guy, R2D2, and he named him Obi Wan. There's a number sounding word in that name somewhere, right? Close enough. On to the bad guys.