For Kids, The Game Is Eternal

It has no start, and it certainly never ends.

I’m sitting in the recliner in the living room when my daughters (5 and 2) slowly walk in. Upon reaching the middle of the room they ball up as small as they can. Once they are both little balls of pajamas on the floor 5 pops her head up and excitedly informs me:

Daddy! You lost the game!

Confused I ask what game she’s talking about, since I had no idea a game was even in progress.

The game we’re playing!

Five year olds can only speak in exclamations.

I ask what game we’re playing and she gives me a look of disbelief. Her face says I’m a moron for not being able to identify the game by the balling yourself up on the floor requirement .

We’re playing who can look like a chair!

I am a moron. How did I not guess that game?

As she struts to the kitchen, self proclaimed winner of ‘Who can look like a chair,’ I stop her and to say I knew all along we were playing that game. In fact, I was simply playing the newer advanced version called ‘Who can sit in a chair,’ and since I was the only one sitting, I had won the real game.

She walked off with her head down and shoulders low, knowing she had been bested. Silly kids, no one beats me in a game of ‘Who can look like a chair.’