Dear Gavin,

Yesterday I dubbed you the "UNO Master"! My sweet boy, you are getting so good at this classic card game. Santa brought us a deck of UNO cards and over winter break we introduced it to you and Sydney. Sydney enjoyed it, but would have rather played something else-but you took off with it! You asked to play it almost every day, sometimes back-to-back games. Especially this past week, you have claimed UNO to be "the most awesome game ever"! Two days ago we played a few games and I said "one more game, then it's rest-time." That one more game turned into the longest game we had played so far! I had to re-shuffle and re-stack the deck twice--yesterday was the same thing. I told you "one more game, then we'll eat lunch" and it turned into an even longer game! I didn't think it would ever end. This morning you woke up and wanted to play it right away (the stack is currently laying in the middle of the rug after a couple of games with Dad). I love playing with you and have realized just how closely you are paying attention to Dad and me when we play it with you. You are picking up on strategies and using your special cards very wisely too! Your favorite cards are the WILD cards (both WILD and the wild +4)--you love to deal the cards so you can get at least three WILDs to get you started. We are having so much fun with you! Here's to many more UNO matches in the future!

Love you!
Mom