The Games My Children Play

Miss E plays doctor-
She wears her toy stethoscope, and enlists Mama or Daddy to be her guinea pig patient. She listens to our heart and looks inside our mouth. Asks if we have butterflies in our ears. She will then inevitably decide that her patient needs medicine. I think it is so funny how she always asks me if I want pink or green medicine, only to insist in giving me whatever color I did not ask for. She also thinks it's hilarious, so I always mock concern that it is the wrong color. Finally, she will be convinced to graciously give me the color of medicine I wanted. Mocosa!

Her favorite game these days, though, is "Super Why"
Super Why is an educational show that airs on PBS and is also available on Netflix. Their goal is to teach children the alphabet and some basic spelling skills through the adventures of the super heroes pictured above. They always show up and save the day, of course, and Miss E loves to swish her invisible cape as she appears on the scene (usually a huge bad monster has appeared out of nowhere, or someone is stuck somewhere and needs to be "unstuck"). The game easily adapts to when we are playing with the bunny family, of course, as the "Baby girl bunny" can quite easily fall off the edge of the toy house and inexplicably get trapped in a shape sorting cube, and will need to be saved over and over again in an interminable cycle of madness and incredible lack of balance. Mama is only able to play this game so many times. haha!

 She came up with a new game this week. It is called building a bridge, I suppose, since that is all there is to it: she finds toys that are flat and sturdy enough to step on (or asks me to do it) and then spends ten to twenty minutes stepping on the bridge, back and forth. Yay. LoL. I usually just sit on the leather chair and try to hold a conversation while she does this. Or I just try not to fall asleep. haha!

Mr E has much simpler games, just the kind I can play over and over again much more painlessly. He loves to play with cars, trucks, and even the little people airplane we got when Miss E was a baby-toddler. It's easy for me to follow him around the house wheeling the toy cars around, or send one of those pull-back cars to the kitchen for him to catch and send back. Which reminds me that he also loves balls these days and can toss the ball so well!! Mr E is so very socially intelligent! He quickly understood that if he throws the ball at me, I will throw it back, and it will be a fun game. He has always enjoyed cars, but he did not always enjoy the game as much as he does these days, possibly because he is more skilled at catching and throwing said ball?

They play some games together, or enjoy them separately. They love to sit in boxes, of course, or in the laundry basket. The containers can be boats, or school buses, or trains.
They also love to sit under the table and play house. They bring in their sheep skins, blankets, and cushions, and basically just sit there and have conversations that I can almost never understand. But they go back and forth, so I think they are communicating somehow!

These are the main games I can think of them playing these days..   :)