Brian plays many different games with the boys, and they
name the games together. Sometimes the names are real words, like the game Fast Bear, where they have to hold on to
his shirt for dear life as he lumbers around the house on all fours, and the
game Hi Buddy, which involves
headfirst diving over Brian’s head off the couch. Some games just have
nonsense words or sounds as the name. The one that has been the most popular
for the past few months is called Bleh.
In its purest form, Bleh is jumping out from a hiding place and scaring people.
It used to just be done at home, while one boy or Dad walked down the hall toward
the living room, pretending to be oblivious to the fact that the other two are
hiding in wait behind the couch or the chair or the curtains to scare him. They
then jump out with both hands open by their head and yell, BLEH! I'm sure you play this with kids and played it when you were little too. Totally normal.
The game has no boundaries now. Every place is the hallway, every structure is a couch or a chair or a curtain to hide behind, and every person is a subject willing to be scared for sport. After the blehing, the bleher will usually tell the blehed that “I blehed you! I did!” As if there is a question about whether or not a little mini person just jumped out of hiding and scared you. This is not easy to explain to someone in public, so I just make the bleh face back, with my hands by my head and bleh the boy who just blehed me, in hopes that the observers will see that he only means that he scared me, not that he’s into bloodletting.
Clark illustrates the classic bleh pose. |
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