Pokemon!

Last week, my wife and I received Nathan's pre-K report card and saw that he got pretty high marks. We were so proud of him and told him that whenever he gets high marks in school, we'll give him a prize. He was thrilled. Soon, he would always ask us when he would get his prize and so yesterday, I took a quick trip to Target and bought him, what I thought, something he would really like - Pokemon trading cards.

So I went home and when I finally told him that I had his prize, he was excited. When I showed it to him, he was thrilled and said "This is the best gift ever!". I know this won't be the last time he'd say this.

He's been watching Pokemon for a while and we'd done a few projects making Pokemon paper crafts so he was fascinated with the trading cards he received. I actually do not know how to play the game itself so we went to the Pokemon website and started watching the tutorials. At first I felt intimidated with having to learn all the rules but it turns out that the game is pretty simple. I also thought the game has some learning value to it as it involves making choices, matching cards, and doing simple math which I think are helpful skills kids can learn while having fun.

Perhaps I can now justify getting a Nintendo DS and this for Father's day.