Anna has quite an imagination. Lately, she insists we role play stories that are important to her. At first, since we are reading the Little House on the Prairie books, a chapter per night, she pretended she was Laura. I had to be Pa and shoot a deer and hang it in a tree so the wolves wouldn't get it, and play my fiddle so she could sleep at night. Sometimes I was Ma or Mary, but poor Colin always had to be Baby Carrie.
That lasted about 3 days. Then we launched into imaginary land in Anna's favorite TV show, the Backyardigans. This cute show on Nickelodeon has 6 characters that have pretend imaginary adventures in their backyard. Its format is like a musical, and the characters dance and sing about being pirates, or cowboys, or Yetis, etc.
Despite the fact that there are 2 female characters, Anna decided I would be Tyrone (a moose) and she would be Pablo (a penguin). Colin was Baby Austin and Anthony was Daddy Austin. If I called her Anna, she would correct me and say, "You mean 'Pablo.' Say 'Pablo,' Tyrone." All day long, I had to call her Pablo. And there was no more Mommy, just Tyrone. Even in the lullaby I sing her at betime, I had to sing her name as Pablo.
For 3 weeks.
At the end of the 3 weeks, she saw a new Backyardigans episode (The Tower of Power), in which Pablo and Tyrone are Supervillans, Yucky Man and Dr Shrinky. So now I'd say, "Time to brush your teeth, Anna - I mean Pablo." And she'd say, "You mean Yucky Man, Dr Shrinky." She was correcting me all the time, because I was forever forgetting who it was I was talking to. "OK, Dr Shrinky," I'd say, and she'd yell, "No, that's YOU! I'm Yucky Man!" Then she'd do her Supervillan laugh, "Mwaa-hahahahaha!"
Colin, incidentally, was Captain Hammer. He'd wake up all sweet and sleepy from his crib, and say sweetly, "Hi, Anna!" And she'd say, "No! I'm Yucky Man!"
Last night, we read a nature magazine about Seal Pups in the arctic (the cute white kind that get themselves clubbed for fur coats - but it didn't mention that). Now, I have been miraculously transformed into Seal Mommy, and I have to call her Seal Pup. There's lots of Barking and Fish Eating going on.
I am so happy to be called Mommy again, even if its preceded by seal.
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lol she really gets into her stories and shows huh
Aww! I love Anna! Her imagination is endless! I am glad too she is not longer Pablo. I like Seal Pup better and I don't mind serving her imaginary fish for lunch. (At least it's food and at least she's not a penguin anymore.) I guess now I am going to have to learn to draw seals. She's so adorable! I am so glad I get to spend so much time with your kids!
Ha ha! I missed not hearing her say my name while I was there, too. (I was Tasha.) You're such a good sport!
Yes, you are a good sport. I don't know how you keep your "roles" straight but then again you do have someone reminding you who you are! :) Love you, M
oops, I was trying to edit and I deleted.
Just wanted to say she is our fearless leader, and we tend to like what she likes, do what she did/does. So I guess you give me a good preview of what's to come.
P&G are stuck on wearing polar fleece -- IN JULY/AUG in Houston, for heaven's sake -- and playing imaginary tea and soup with their plastic pink Disney princesses set. We eat a LOT of imaginary soup.
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