Obstacles

Lately, Arthur's favorite thing to do is play a card game called obstacles. There are a series of cards depicting different obstacles (lava river, cliff, field of poison ivy, toll booth, etc) and each player gets cards with tools on them to help the player traverse the various obstacles. The tool cards are supposed to be dealt out at random but Arthur insists on picking it his favorites. Currently his favorites include: mouse trapper, catapult, trampoline, jar of fireflies, rope, pulley, vacuum cleaner, bridge and box of scrap metal. This leaves the rest of us with things like pipe cleaners, a compass, silver tray, pumpkin, and flute. Know how hard it is to scale a mountain with only a flute and a pocket watch?  

Notwithstanding the lack of excitement owing to the fact that we all know he will get the same cards and say the exact same things at each obstacle, Arthur still begs to play every day after dinner. And we usually indulge him. 😜