A lot of you enjoyed my first post about gaming with Baby Jack, so I thought I'd brag some more about Baby's preternatural strategic acumen.
Lately we've been having tons of fun with an old classic, Swaddle Houdini. This is another game with asymmetrical player roles. My role, as the fully developed human adult male, is to swaddle the baby. Jack's role, as a person who if left to his own devices would die in about a day, is to wriggle free of the swaddle, shove all his fingers in his mouth three at a time, then punch himself in the face with one hand while clawing his eyes out with the other.
Jack won handily each time we played, and I was less embarrassed than proud when Mama and I had no choice but to handicap him in order to keep things interesting! Rather than using a standard swaddle blanket, we switched to a specialized swaddle with pockets and velcro straps designed to straitjacket a little human whose muscles are so frail he can't even walk. Didn't matter; Jack's arms were free in seconds! Sorry for the second braggy post, but I am just a very proud Papa right now!
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