The Flag Game

My husband taught my boys how to play capture the flag, but of course with all games--they morph into something new, with new rules. We start from our back porch(base) and throw out a marker. The boys then run, get the marker, and try to bring it back to base. It's always them against me, and somehow whenever I run the marker into base it's against the rules, "Mom you are never allowed to win!" I'm thinking, "You guys scored five goals, and I only scored one, so I'm still not winning," But they don't see of it that way. Because it's a team sport, the boys are allowed to tackle, block, distract me while the other boy makes it into base. If I do capture one of the boys, then they throw it to the other team member, or can get away from me, somehow. They also have great stealth powers. When they lie flat in the grass, you can't see them, even though somehow you can see them on the video. Maybe the stealth powers just work on the naked eye. It's very important that the marker is hidden underneath them, because the marker doesn't have that same ability. Last night the boys added another dimension--three markers instead of one, I still can't even take one of the markers into base, and it is very confusing, I mean fun. "Luke" took this video, of our game, it's kind of long, but also kind of fun!