"Touche-Touche" is "Tag".
Now Gabriel really, really loves this game. He never tires of it.
This little video shows the boys outside playing it. The girl is an old friend of theirs back from Sereville days, who came to help babysit for ten days.
Anyway, more often than not, they play inside, around the dining room table.
Gabriel loves it when Papa plays, too. Although Papa does have a tendency to get dizzy while running around a table, a condition which never seems to strike little Gabriel in the least.
Now one day, while Maxime and Gabriel and I were playing Touche-Touche around the table, Maxime came up with something just too funny. But before I reveal this stunt of Maxime's, I need to relate that they like to taunt you, when you can't catch them. Which is most of the time.
As in: "Nanananana!". In French, it's slightly different, and goes: "Na-Na-Na-Nera!".
In any case, whatever language the boys use, they always have provocative smiles, and they sway their hips back and forth, like jaunty puppets, which -- if you are on the receiving end -- takes "taunting" to a new level.
Returning to the funny incident. So, during this particular game, Maxime, apparently to amplify his taunt that I can't catch him, starts motioning his hands and arms rapidly back and forth, at the sides of his hips, sort of like a ski pole motion. While laughing merrily.
I stop, puzzled, and naively inquire: "What's that?"
Maxime: "A guy in a wheelchair."
"That's it!" I erupted, and chased him down to the floor and tickled him till he begged for mercy.
Now of course we all do the wheelchair motion, whenever someone can't catch us.
:-)
Here is the outside video: