Emma and Gloria's favourite games

1. Sack of potatoes. When you pick them up and throw them onto the bed, like a sack of potatoes. Repeat. Result: high-pitched giggling.

2. Flip the pancake. When you pick each child up by the feet and flip them onto the bed, like a pancake. Repeat. Result: giggling, endless cries of "again! again!"Stop if vomiting occurs. (It has.)

3. Search and rescue. Gloria flings Brian and Bernard behind the bed for Emma to find, which involves climbling and squeezing into a tight spot. Result: giggling. Bonus points for low parent involvement.

4. Rat run. Step one: pull sofa about 1 ft away from the wall. Step two: sit back and marvel as girls chase each other through tiny tunnel for hours. Another low parent involvement game.

5. Bumblebee. Emma puts a shiny bead down the neck of my top and has to find where it pops out. She calls the bead 'the bumblebee', hence the name.

6. Lick Mummy's face. Emma chases me round the room sticking her tongue out, trying to lick my face, while I make a big "yuck!" and "urgghh!" song and dance. I don't like this one much.

7. Smear Gloria with cream. Under cover of silence, when parent is preoccupied, take any old cream and smear Gloria with it. Last time it was nappy rash cream - G looked like she was ready to swim the channel. This is not one of my favourites either.

It's fun with two.