Pee Wee's Playhouse

This is a Bird Story....

The partner David is obsessed with scouring flea markets, antique stores, yard sales, etc. for all things collectible. There is very little that escapes his interest. One day, he came home with a 24 inch tall talking (and eerily lifelike) Pee Wee Herman doll.

I could not even begin to imagine what we would do with this. However, the answer would appear quickly.

For some reason, Rick the Bird has decided that this Pee Wee Herman doll is his Nemesis, and that he must be destroyed. So we have developed a game. I will take the Pee Wee doll and hold its hands and start "walking" it around the floor while the Bird watches from his cage. He will yell down at it, "Come Here!" and I will start walking the doll away into the kitchen. The Bird goes nuts - he scrambles down the side of his cage and chases the doll across the floor. His little bird feet clicking on the floor and his wings spread out. The whole time he is laughing "Ah, ha, ha - Come Here, Come On".

We will run back and forth to the cage and this will go on for a few minutes, the entire time with the Bird trying to get the doll's feet.

He loves this activity. AND, it tires him out - which makes for a nice early bed time, and some good exercise. Plus, we have also learned that we can use the doll to get him back to his cage when we want to lock him up so we can go out (he knows when we are planning on going out so he hides and it becomes a nightmare finding him).

Just another parenting trick really.