Hide (or Don’t) and Seek

Both our boys are in their bedrooms! Time to write a bit…

Charlie is really into playing games lately. While they may be titled in familiar terms, the way he plays them will make anyone laugh. Hide and Seek involves the standard seeker role, but the hiding person has quite a bit more leeway with Charlie’s version. In fact, hiding might be simply standing by a wall in plain sight. Or pretending you’re a part of the stairway, simply because you’re on it. And, just in case you’re having a hard time spotting him in his incredibly stealthy spot, he’ll give you a “pssst” every once in awhile to help you out. The “pssst” started after we had to help him find us because his seeking skills are just about as good as his hiding skills.

The other hilarious game is hiding plastic eggs, which we’ve been doing since Easter. We take turns hiding and seeking, but Charlie always needs help seeking if they’re not visible. When he hides them he often picks the spots you just used, particularly if they were new and cool. He also thinks it’s a part of the game to tell you where he’s hidden the eggs (because, surely, you must need the same help he did with spotting eggs, even if they’re right in front of you on the coffee table). We don’t even get a chance to look before he’s told us where they are. And he loves it. So we play over and over and over again.

We bought Charlie Chutes and Ladders to celebrate Miles’ birth because of his growing interest in numbers and counting. He’s also made up his own rules for this game, which basically involve using the spinner and going wherever you want to, for as many squares as you desire. And nobody wins or loses. It’s quite easy to play. Come over and join us someday!

An older girl ran up to him at the playground a few weeks ago and said, “Let’s play tag.” She then tagged him and ran away. Charlie thought he’d been hit at first, and then ran the other direction. We might let him have his own rules to this one for awhile, too, just to keep other kids guessing.