Playaz

I suppose it's no surprise that the inventor of wildly popular and famous games like "Find the Hamburger" and "You're not Craig" would have equally creative children. Here's a few of the soon to be popular games that they've invented recently.

1. The Pillow Game

I swear that my sole contribution to this was game was that I walked into the toy room one morning and, on seeing Bundle curled up on the miniature couch at floor level, said "Oh, you look like a pillow" and proceeded to rest my head on his back.

Okay, I may have tickled him also.

In any case, Bundle and Cherub decided they both wanted to be pillows, and decided that the best way to deal with having my head rest on them was to jump up and run to the other end of the house, do a few laps of the lounge room/hallway/kitchen circuit, and then run back to the mini-couch so we could do it all again.

Yes, that's right. There is a game where my children run around the house while I am required to do nothing but lie on the floor and possibly drink some coffee.

And my children invented it.

I am grateful.

2. Boo Holidays

This is quite similar to hide and seek, except that the person hiding tends to jump out and yell "Boo" rather than waiting to be found. The name arises from my children's tendency to asume that any toy or other item that is temporarily difficult to locate around the house must have gone on holidays. Which makes perfect sense.

3. That's not a beach, that's my head

I may have had something to do with naming this one. In any case, it's fairly simple. While the boys are in the bath, they like to take it in turns to place wet bath toys, (and, in particular, a plastic lobster) on my head. I say "That's not a beach. THAT'S. MY. HEAD" and they giggle wildly before doing it again.

This one is very popular.

4. The "Bundle" Game

I don't actually know what this involves, othe than the two boys running around a lot, but props to my older child for naming it after himself.




5. Pillow on you

I suspect this one is a very slight variation on the only game that I have ever banned from my house. I simply did not want my children to become too attached to any game called "Poo on you".

You will see how slight the variation iswhen I tell you that the revised game works as follows:


[Cherub places one hand, palm flat and downwards, on Bundle's head]

Cherub: Pillow on you

Bundle [wiping his head furiously] Aaaaargh. Clean clean clean clean clean. Ha

Bundle places hand on Cherub's head, game continues along a very similar lines, with much giggling.

As of today, there is a further variation of this game, apparently called "Robot on you".

No-one has yet explained why the appearance of a pillow, or a robot, on one's head requires such enthusiastic cleaning, but let me assure you that I have no intention of asking.