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Lately the Kiddo has gotten so good at playing his Playstation Starwars game that he has begun to play for stories vs playing to win (he's already beaten it twice). When I say stories what I mean is, he plays and then he talks for the characters, he makes up dialogue for what they are saying for what they are doing. It is usually quite a lengthy story and it doesn't always make complete sense.

A snippet from yesterday

"once when I was a small robot there was NO people!" ... "WHAT! No people?!?!" .. "That's right, NO people, just an R2 robot and other robots".

The story/dialogue went on to talk about how after awhile there were some people, and they had powers. They used the force to kill the bad guys, break them into pieces. And they had swords, blue ones... etc etc

If nothing else the Kiddo really does have an amazing imagination.

Speaking of imagination. Today he invented something. He came into the livingroom with his drill from his tool bench. The thing is battery operated. When you pull the level the drill goes around... sort of like the real thing. So he brings it into the livingroom, he's holding his finger against the rivits up at the top of the drill bit, and running the drill so that it spins against his finger.

Finally I say "Kiddo, WHAT are you doing!??"

He says "It's a tool for removing prunes"

I musta had a really funny look on my face because he cracked the biggest grin ever, then he pushes the pad of his finger towards my face and says "you know mom PRUNES, on your fingers"

aaaaah, he's talking bath fingers *chuckle* I suppose the running rivets probably do feel like they are "smoothing" his fingers out.
In the picture he's pulling the drill bit down for me to take the picture so you can see the rivets on the top of it.

Go Speed Racer

I'm not watching the news today, I'm not browsing the newspaper articles... I just don't feel like hearing everybody point fingers while nothing gets done. Not to mention the "the sky is falling the sky is falling and the world is going to end" folks. I've got enough stress in my life without dealing with that stuff in such an unproductive way.


So here's a cute picture of the kiddo.



He watched Speed Racer for the first time on Sunday. The last race of the movie Kiddo is sitting on the floor screaming at the tv "go go go, gooo you can DO it, you can WIN". I barely avoided laughing... and did not manage to get a picture. Today he is busy playing speed racer with his hot wheels. I thought it was particularly creative that he is using the groove in the top of his block bin as a race track. Note that the car in first place is a truck, and second place is speed racer. He has his hand on a race car getting ready for it's little boosters to jump it over and put it in first. He's still playing, I'm hearing squeals of tires and thumping as the cars bump into each other and the bin. I wonder who will win?