Miss GiGi and Me

So last week Miss GiGi and  I were playing, Go Fish.  At one point GiG asks, "Do you have any 6s?" I hand her my 6 but she doesn't put any matches down.  I say, "GiG, put down your matches." She tells she has none.  "GiGi!  You don't ask for a card unless you already have one in your hand." She tells me she knows.  Then I ask for her 1.  I know she has one because she's asked for this in the past.  She tells me to "Go Fish".  Huh.  Maybe I was mistaken.  Her turn.  She asks me for my 1.  "GiGi! If I ask for a card, and you have it, you have to give it up!"  She starts a rolling laugh that starts in her gut and rolls all the way out and she chortles! She has made a joke!  She's not cheating -- I don't think she gets that concept -- she just played a joke on me!  I tell her to hand over the 1 and she does, laughing the whole way!

Later, Miss Ellie, GiGi's oldest sister, comes home from school while we are still playing cards.  I want to play Crazy 8s and Ellie wants to join us.  GiGi wants to play Memory.  But what I think is that she wants to only play with me and is a little prickly because Ellie is going to play too.  This is still her time!  Well we out-vote her and Crazy 8s it is.  She refuses to play claiming she doesn't know how to.  This isn't the case since the week before we played this game.  Being the big sister, Ellie pulls her onto her lap and tells her she can share her hand and learn how to play. 

We play our first hand and Ellie wins.  GiGi says, "Good job, sista!" Ha!  This is what I call GiGi.  Ellie says, "Is that what Miss Jean calls you?" GiGi says it is.  Ellie asks me why I call her sister?  I say, all women are sisters.  Ellie kinda gets it.  GiGi says, "Yeah!" as if she understands the concept of a global sisterhood.   I think, I just need to burst out and laugh out loud!  She cracks me up so! What a treat.