Boo!

Benjy suddenly started playing 'boo' with us. We used to call this game 'I see', so think perhaps the childminder calls it 'peekaboo' - or perhaps it's just that he has books that call it 'peekaboo'. Anyway, all of a sudden he'd wander off into the other room, then come running back shouting 'boo!' - totally a game that he initiated, it's not something we'd ever started playing in the way that he does, before he started it. Now, of course, he does it all the time. Sometimes he'll just move his head slightly so we're not in his direct line of vision; sometimes he'll crouch down behind the tables then jump up with the enthusiastic 'boo!'; often, he'll go into the other room and we can sometimes have to wait for up to two minutes of 'where's Benjy' before he'll 'surprise us' - that's my favourite, along with when he plays it in his highchair, either hiding behind his hands, or lifting up his (thankfully, empty) bowl and hiding behind it, peeping out every so often to check we're still 'looking for him'.