Guffaw: You love playing games.
You and I play the "ABC" game, where I say a letter and you say a word that starts with that letter. (My personal favorites are that you almost always say "Guffaw" when we get to "G" and you give me a "love" (a big hug) when you get to "L." We have been playing that game since you were one year old, most often while walking to Mile Square Park. That is partly why I think you call it the "ABC Park."
Other games you also enjoy are:
-- the "opposites game" where I say a word and you say its opposite,
-- the "rhyming game" where we pick a word and then take turns coming up with words that rhyme with that word.
Tonight (6/28/11), you wanted to snuggle with me while I was babysitting you and Poema. I was happy to oblige you. However, after a while, since it was your bed time, I wanted to try to encourage you to fall asleep. I, therefore, made up a new game: the "eyes closed game." I told you we should each close our eyes and the last one to open them would be the winner. You said okay and enthusiastically joined in. I saw that, to help your chances, you put your fingers on your eyelids to hold them shut. I then closed my eyes.
I sort of expected you would open yours occasionally, see me with my eyes closed and then close yours again. After all, since my eyes were closed, I would not know you had peeked. That was, of course, okay with me, since I was not really competing with you. I just was trying to make it easier for you to wind down and go to sleep.
However, after a couple of minutes you said, in your sweet, honest, voice: "Guffaw, I lost the game."
You and I play the "ABC" game, where I say a letter and you say a word that starts with that letter. (My personal favorites are that you almost always say "Guffaw" when we get to "G" and you give me a "love" (a big hug) when you get to "L." We have been playing that game since you were one year old, most often while walking to Mile Square Park. That is partly why I think you call it the "ABC Park."
Other games you also enjoy are:
-- the "opposites game" where I say a word and you say its opposite,
-- the "rhyming game" where we pick a word and then take turns coming up with words that rhyme with that word.
Tonight (6/28/11), you wanted to snuggle with me while I was babysitting you and Poema. I was happy to oblige you. However, after a while, since it was your bed time, I wanted to try to encourage you to fall asleep. I, therefore, made up a new game: the "eyes closed game." I told you we should each close our eyes and the last one to open them would be the winner. You said okay and enthusiastically joined in. I saw that, to help your chances, you put your fingers on your eyelids to hold them shut. I then closed my eyes.
I sort of expected you would open yours occasionally, see me with my eyes closed and then close yours again. After all, since my eyes were closed, I would not know you had peeked. That was, of course, okay with me, since I was not really competing with you. I just was trying to make it easier for you to wind down and go to sleep.
However, after a couple of minutes you said, in your sweet, honest, voice: "Guffaw, I lost the game."
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