brood

Levi started the game. Or maybe ladyj or I did, I don’ t know, but Levi gets credit for evolving the game. It goes like this.

Dada: Let’s make a house!
Levi: For puppets!
Dada: Okay who is going to live in it?
Levi: Ele-pant gonna lib innit.
Dada: Okay
Levi: Ele-pant is sad.
Dada: Oh really? Why?
Levi: (with a wimper as the voice of elephant) I’m sad. I’m tired. Gonna go to sleep
(the first condo in the house is built, and ready, i do most of the framing, and levi applies the rooftops)
Dada: Maybe you can live here, elephant?
Levi: Elepant go to sleep. It’s raining.
Dada: Oh, is there thunder?
Levi: No, just raining.
Dada: Oh
Levi: There is thunder, too.
Dada: Oh, is there lightning?
Levi: No, just thunder.
Dada: Oh
Levi: Its lightning.

And so on… all 10 or so puppets get a house and the condo building grows and grows until there is just one or two puppets left. And here it gets even more interesting. Levi announces that the final two puppets are going to knock it down, and with them in hand, Levi topples the structure.

He then inspects the rubble and pulls out each victim saying… “I’m hurt. I need a band-aid.” That’s where the scotch tape comes in. Levi knows just where it is, and if you don’t intervene he’ll start pulling long yarns of tape from the spool. But, I usually am able to intercept and create the effect he’s after. He wants individual “bandaids” for each puppet. So, I cut up 10 or so pieces of tape, put them on the edge of the table so he can get them easily, and he goes about his meticulous process of applying first aid to each victim… elephant, green fish, red fish, narwhal, dog, starfish, crab, blue octopus, green octopus, etc… they all get the treatment are arranged neatly in a row as if they were bunkered in a room of hospital beds.

We’ve played this wonderful game everyday at least once for about 3 weeks it seems… it has sort of evolved to this point, and I can’t wait to find out what happens next.