We've never used Z's pack n' play as a playpen. But I set it up for a friend's baby to stay in earlier this week and ever since then Z has requested several long play sessions in there every day. She pretends to sleep, she runs around in tiny circles, she flops down giggling, she tries to climb out. It's like she's a crazed actress and this is a great stage for all kinds of nuttiness. Thankfully, this is one indoor activity she's excited about. Dude, it's 102 degrees outside. Help me out with some ideas, would ya?
What else can we do inside, aside from these current favorites?:
1. Toddler hide and seek. As in, she sees pretty much exactly where I hide, Sweet Dog becomes overwhelmed by the excitement and immediately starts licking some exposed body part and yet sometimes I STILL have to cough or something for her to find me. Repeat until she suddenly loses interest in the game, wanders off and I find myself barely hidden behind a piece of furniture listening to some unknown thing fall loudly to the ground in another room.
2. Building forts out of couch cushions and crawling through them/knocking them down on top of each other. Repeat until one of us hits her head.
3. Take every. single. blessed. toy out of it's holding device and drop onto the ground with a resonant "uh-oh". Repeat after they have all been put away.
4. Take a bone/ball/tennis shoe up to the sleeping Sweet Dog and shove it in her face. Watch her jump up, run away, and lie down somewhere she deems safe. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
1 comment:
yep, once in a blue moon, i will lean phoebe over the pack n play and she will not shriek in horror (don't put me in there!) with delight, i know that I can put her in there and she will play. Her favorite thing to do in there is to have me pile a bunch of stuffed animals in there and she will throw them over the side one by one while doing the 'phoebe chatter' (areoreoreor. reor. areareor.)
:)
i will then pile them back in and out they go one by one.
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