Isn't that cute? It's amazing the little games they think up on their own and teach us how to play with them! Dutch sounds like a smart boy! The game you two play sounds like the one my Tibbe taught me to play all on his own. It took me a while to realize we had been playing the game of hide and seek, with my dog baiting me to search for the chewie he'd hidden in the living room, then later on, anywhere in the house! I'd never had a dog in this house do that - they just didn't have the patience or selflessness or foresight or whatever to allow another to seek and then get their treasure. They always rushed in to get it for themselves. Just like you, I was blown away when I realized what he'd been doing.
Tibbe taught me how to play hide and seek with his chewies not too long after I got him and will play this game as long as I last at it. He loves it and will just patiently stand by as I search around and won't even really clue me in when I'm getting warm, though. Once or twice he's rushed in to grab the chewie ahead of me but the other 1001 times we've played, he just stands excitedly by and lets me search all over the house and finally find and retrieve the chewie and dance around waving it, yelling "I found the chewie!!! Mommy found the chewie!!!" Once I find it, he knows I will take it into the den waving it above my head and then throw it as far as I can, he runs to get it and hides it all over again, and then rushes into the den and baits me to seek it all over again.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |