Sometimes it's hard to be the loser

 We play a lot of games over here.

Michael got Crazy 8s in his stocking this year.  It has been an instant hit with all the kids.  We've been playing a lot in the last few days.  Like 10 games a day for the last 3 days.  They even play by themselves.  I came home from the gym yesterday just as Jeff was leaving for work.  It was 6:45 in the morning, and all 3 kids were sitting around playing Crazy 8s.  Weird.  But awesome.

Lily has not won a single game.  Not one game.  She is just horribly unlucky at it.

So we came home from dance class and I asked if they wanted to play a game.  They both yell "Crazy 8s!" and then Lily stops and groans and says, "I never win that game."

I said, "Perhaps you are the unluckiest player ever.  Perhaps if you lose again, you will get an award."

So we played a game.  The longest game ever.  And Lily lost.  Of course she did.

So I popped up and got her an award.

A little closer if you must see it...

Michael was a little jealous and wanted to know what game HE is the unluckiest at so we could play it and he could get a ribbon.

Sometimes it's just too easy to make them happy!