Starting around last Thanksgiving, we started playing a lot of games as a family. Mostly various card games.
Playing with Elizabeth can be a challenge because it feels like she's all over the place. She's hyper. It seems like she doesn't pay attention. She can be loud. She wants to play with the dog and do other things in the middle of the game. I'm constantly barking at her to pay attention.
Yet, somehow, she seems to win more often than she doesn't.
I've always attributed this to the luck of card games. Until tonight.
As she won the last game, she made a comment - something along the lines of, "Hey, pro tip, it really helps if you memorize what other people play" (her comment was a bit more nuanced based on the way the game is played).
Elizabeth then rattled off what she had memorized about our hands during the course of the game.
Huh...I guess Elizabeth's consistent winning isn't just the luck of the draw, and she's paying way, way, way more attention than we thought.
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