Silly Games

I will admit that with each member of the family, I play a silly game which I do not play with anyone else either in the family or outside of it. For instance, hubby calls me every day as he leaves work from his cell phone. The reason is because once he gets home, the kids and the dog need his attention and I am usually busy making dinner so for us to have any adult conversation, he calls me. Often, we are still talking on the phone when he arrives home and I hear the garage door go up. This is when I say, "Oh, gotta go, husband's home!" and we both chuckle and the kids look at me funny.

Then there is my 12 year old daughter. I mentioned before where she and I will be talking in the kitchen and I will measure her against me to see how tall she has grown. The silly game is when she hugs me, then she does it so hard I gasp, "Oh,no, the Heimlich!" and we laugh about it and I try to to hug her back but not too hard because I do not want to break her ribs.

With my son, since he has been a baby, I would say, "L...U....K...E....that spells LUKE!" But lately, I have been saying "L...U...K...E... that spells banana!" and he looks at me and says, "No, it's LUKE!" We do this with a number of other words until I can tell he is sick of the game.

I also do a game with the dog. Usually, it is when I have come home from taking the ten minute walk dropping my son off at school. I arrive home and he is so excited, he looks for something to grab (usually a shoe) and I ask "Where is your ball? Quick go find it!" He searches all over until he finds it and then he starts to run around the staircase. I go to the otherside and try to stop him and say "Arrrrrgh" and he puts on the brakes and runs back the other way. I simply turn around and wait for him to come around the corner and again say "Arrrrrgh" and he turns back around the other direction. We do this several times and finally I go sit down and he lays down, exhausted.

And I did not have to buy any of these games in the store.