12.10.19 - Kid snippets: Clara pokes me with a knife

I was again wearing my long skirt tonight, so I sat on the living room floor and spread the skirt around me in as close to a circle shape as possible. I told the girls if they stepped on the skirt I would get them, and they giggled gleefully and "hid" around the wall in the hallway, even though I wasn't moving or chasing them at all. Clara would tell Jane to go get me, and Jane would tentatively walk toward me while Clara watched from a safe distance in delight. Slowly this process escalated to them running in a circle around me just at the outskirts of...well, of the skirt. Sometimes Jane would step on the skirt and I'd grab her and tickle her and then release her again. Clara never once made that mistake. Eventually they were both running around me laughing in delight, and I was doing nothing but sitting there watching them, amused. Easiest game ever. At one point Clara tried to jump on my back and "get" me.

Clara: I've got a knife to poke Mom!
Me: What? Are you stabbing me?
Clara: No! I'm just poking you with a knife!

Clara playing in my skirt.