a cheesy thread: what cute games does your toddler like?

[Caththerese1973]

Hi
just had a little wine, and suddenly felt sentimental about the lovely afternoon I had weeding in the backyard with my dd (2.5) this afternoon.
She tried to help me, but these were tough weeds, and eventually she conceded: 'I'm not very good at this'. But then she found a stick in the yard and insisted upon poking every weed before I pulled it up. I asked her why and she said, 'to see if the weed is sick.' So I said, 'are you the weed doctor, then?' and she LOVED this idea - just followed me around all afternoon with her little stick, carefully poking weeds and then pronouncing them to be 'well enough' to be brutally uprooted by me. Periodically she would disappear and then come back, make a grand entrance and announce herself as 'the weed doctor.'
I know it's corny, but this sort of thing really makes me appreciate the toddler imagination. They are satisfied with such simple and unexpected things at times! I guess as they get older, inevitably, this sort of rustic, picaresque game-playing probably goes down the drain and one is instead confronted with demands for i-pods etc. But anyway. Any other cute toddler games?

My DS aged 3 loved being a "server" in a restaurant. He would ask us what we wanted and then go off into the kitchen to give the order to the chef. The funny thing is we live overseas so his orders to the chef were always in his own little made up language - as most restaurants we are in the waiters speak English to us and then in Hungarian to their colleagues. He would then come back with the most imaginative excuses as to why you couldn't have what you ordered! One time the oven had exploded and the man hadn't come to fix it as his car had broken down! He could play this for hours.

He was in a real Scooby Doo phase at the time and all 5 had to be involved too!

Must try to remember others - it's a shame to forget them.

PS Desperate for DH to come hom so I can justify the wine too!!!

My dd just turned 2 loves playing hairdresser! She says wash wash hair mummy, cut mummy hair, dry mummy hair. Its soooo cute. My ds who is now 6 used to pretend to be a doctor, telling me I'll fix you mummy!

My ds is 14 months and loves helping me hang clothes on the clotheshorse to dry. (You're all mothers, so you understand what I mean by "helping"). Sometimes he's so keen he puts dirty laundry there while I'm trying to load the washing machine. Yesterday I managed to get a videoclip on my digital camera of him helping me take dry clothes off the horse and putting 3 pairs of dh's underpants over his head while saying "bib".