Amy has been playing with dolls ever since she’s been able to hold one, and loves going pretend shopping and making people better with her doctor’s kit. But up until recently it’s always been Amy changing her doll’s nappy, Amy buying cat food from the shop, and Amy making people better by forcing them to expose their belly for her stethoscope. Over the past couple of weeks however we’ve noticed that her imagination has taken a huge leap forward.
This afternoon I was told I was Sportacus from Lazy Town. To the uninitiated Sportacus is an Icelandic superhero who’s sole super power appears to be jumping up really high and doing the splits in mid air. Fortunately I wasn’t called upon to perform that particular feat. Normally of course I would have been able to do it no problem, but my back is a bit bad at the moment so I wouldn’t like to risk it. I wasn’t the only Icelandic TV character in the house though; Amy informed me she was now Stephanie, Sportacus’ pink haired sidekick. We ran around the house for a bit calling each other by our new names until she decided it was time to switch her attention to spreading my poker chips all over the lounge floor.
That wasn’t the end of it however. At one point today she informed me that she was my mummy and that I had to cry so she could sooth me. And when I put her to bed tonight she initiated the recreation of a scene from Maggie and the Ferocious Beast where two characters argue over the pronunciation of the word galoshes. She’s made an important step beyond basic pretend play and developed the ability to imagine herself in the position of someone else. In other words, she’s become a role-player! I’m very proud. It won’t be long until she’s creating her first Half Orc Barbarian/Fighter.
Go Amy! Anwen had lazytown on the computer last time she was round and was trying to get me to follow the basic exercise routine on there. Dear God! As far as I can tell only peolple with the equivalent fitness of Spiderman can actually even begin to try it. Unfortunately I’m only Batman like in my fitness so it was just a tad beyond me…
Our Okapis are constantly saying they are other people and that we are, too. They love to pretend to be Little Bear and Emily (which means I get to be Papa Bear - which isn’t too bad). But they also like to pretend to be real children and then we have to be those children’s real parents. I can see wanting to be characters from TV, but real people? Hmmm…
Hotlinking is not only rude, but it’s stealing the bandwidth I pay for. Please remove the image you hotlinked from go-go-lazytown. Thanks!
I thought he would be happy that I am spreading the gospel of Lazytown. Why am I tempted not to move it? Maybe its the thrill of becoming a criminal, stealing his $0.000001 worth of bandwidth. I bet he doesn’t own the copyright to that picture.
In a bad mood today, as perhaps you could tell. I’ll take it down.
Image from hotlinked is really not good but to say more about it is that the thing place is right where it should be. I am in favor of lazytown but mind the $0.000001 worth of bandwidth. copyright is question but to some extent the hotlinker should be protect them self first.
This was a very odd post not sure what to make of it, but it is very deep thinking that created it. good work !