One of my New Year's resolutions this year has been that I wanted to play more with my kids. In year past I have played with them here and there, but this year I want to do it more often than that. I want to do more to help them use their imaginations. Hunter is especially receptive to this and lately we have spent A LOT of time in the Bat Cave and the
Imaginetix pirate ship.
McKay is also a huge fan of the
Batcave and will only play with
Anakan Skywalker. If we try to trade him, he goes crazy. Poor Hunter has wanted to play with
Anakan for a long time, but McKay refuses to share. I, as the title might suggest, am the
villain, no matter what. Even when we couldn't find our villains (they were all hiding out in our church bag...why do we only take the villains to church with us? Apparently the Joker is about to turn over a new leaf, you just wait), any way we decided to use the Power Rangers as the bad guys (it is impossible for Superman and Batman to even pretend to be bad, didn't you know that?) and any action figure that happens to be carrying a particularly menacing weapon. Well, Hunter will not ever let me be the good guy...ever...don't even ask because it is never going to happen.
Another thing that happens in most of our time playing is that whatever guy Hunter has, beats my guy up. I must have some wimpy guys because they are always getting beat up. I can't even get a word in edge wise, if I even come near Hunter, he beats my guys up. My hands are getting pretty bruised, and I find myself using sentences like "that's not fair", "stop hitting me (said in a really whiny voice)" and "Mo-om" (there is a special voice inflection with that one that is hard to replicate), by mom isn't here!. I want to tattle to someone, but I think that Josh might be annoyed if I called him to tell me that Hunter keeps beating me up.
I am trying to teach him the finer points of pretend, but as yet they have fallen on deaf ears. This has done funny things to me though, when we pass the toy aisle at the store I always think of what action figures we need. Maybe I will just buy bad guys to build up my army, but I think Hunter will still always win. Maybe I could invest in some of those WWF wrestler action figures, they look pretty tough...wow my posts get random when written late at night...
Here is the coveted Anikan himself. Doesn't he look fun? Well, McKay thinks so too.
He sometimes plays with Luke too, but Anakan is the favorite, maybe he will join my team, he eventually goes bad after all.
One of my New Year's resolutions this year has been that I wanted to play more with my kids. In year past I have played with them here and there, but this year I want to do it more often than that. I want to do more to help them use their imaginations. Hunter is especially receptive to this and lately we have spent A LOT of time in the Bat Cave and the Imaginetix pirate ship. 
McKay is also a huge fan of the Batcave and will only play with Anakan Skywalker. If we try to trade him, he goes crazy. Poor Hunter has wanted to play with Anakan for a long time, but McKay refuses to share. I, as the title might suggest, am the villain, no matter what. Even when we couldn't find our villains (they were all hiding out in our church bag...why do we only take the villains to church with us? Apparently the Joker is about to turn over a new leaf, you just wait), any way we decided to use the Power Rangers as the bad guys (it is impossible for Superman and Batman to even pretend to be bad, didn't you know that?) and any action figure that happens to be carrying a particularly menacing weapon. Well, Hunter will not ever let me be the good guy...ever...don't even ask because it is never going to happen. 
Another thing that happens in most of our time playing is that whatever guy Hunter has, beats my guy up. I must have some wimpy guys because they are always getting beat up. I can't even get a word in edge wise, if I even come near Hunter, he beats my guys up. My hands are getting pretty bruised, and I find myself using sentences like "that's not fair", "stop hitting me (said in a really whiny voice)" and "Mo-om" (there is a special voice inflection with that one that is hard to replicate), by mom isn't here!. I want to tattle to someone, but I think that Josh might be annoyed if I called him to tell me that Hunter keeps beating me up.
I am trying to teach him the finer points of pretend, but as yet they have fallen on deaf ears. This has done funny things to me though, when we pass the toy aisle at the store I always think of what action figures we need. Maybe I will just buy bad guys to build up my army, but I think Hunter will still always win. Maybe I could invest in some of those WWF wrestler action figures, they look pretty tough...wow my posts get random when written late at night...
Here is the coveted Anikan himself. Doesn't he look fun? Well, McKay thinks so too. 
He sometimes plays with Luke too, but Anakan is the favorite, maybe he will join my team, he eventually goes bad after all.
1 comment:
So funny! My kids keep slaughtering me in our light saber wars. I've been thinking maybe we should switch to action figures to save my fingers getting beat up. But maybe our kids are just tougher than we are!
Mel
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