Let's Play Charades

Are you ready? It's time for a virtual game of charades. If you've never played this game with a 4 or 6 year old, you are missing out. The first challenge is figuring out what your daughter is talking about when she says she wants to play "shrates". After many tries, you finally figure out that she means this:

Sounds like fun. Are you ready? Charlie's up first:

Umm, driving? No. Steering wheel? No. Give up? Suntan lotion, of course!

Okay Taylor's turn. This should be easier, right?

Dancing! No. The Twist? No. Give up? A Chef. (If you say so.)

Alright Charlie, show us what you got.

(If you think this is unfair because I saw this in person and you are only seeing snapshots, you are wrong. He literally stood there like this while we guessed.) Oh, there's the steering wheel!

Okay, ready for an easy one?

This is almost too easy. What, an alligator? Nope! A stapler, duh!!

Okay last one:

I'll jump to the chase and tell you that this one was 'peeling an orange'.

And so goes the game of charades. And for all the ambiguous motions the kids make and I desperately try to decipher, I stand there and clearly depict my clues while the children give me blank stares unable to muster up a guess. This is why this game leaves Charlie looking like this:

However, Taylor loves it and so it goes that whenever it's her turn to pick a game, we find ourselves lost in a game of "shrates".