Family Fun

Jack  (who is 3 ) wants to be a rockstar.  No, really.  A rockstar.  Seriously.  For at least a year (if not longer) he has talked about being a rockstar.  And he was completely shocked to find out girls can be rockstars too!!  One day I found him coloring all over his arms.  I asked him what the heck he was doing?!  He said that all rockstars have colors on their arms.  I have no idea where he got this from.  

Anyway, lately he has progressed to standing on the couch with a golf club (aka microphone) in his hand while we sit on the floor and watch his “concert.”  He creates his own songs of course.  Some are pretty funny.  These shennaigans have now moved on to music in the car.  He will ask for a rock and roll song and when we come to one that has some rockin’ electric guitar and jammin’ drums we turn it up really loud, open the sun roof, and jam away. All of us with our air guitars, head banging, bad selves.  

All of us except, Will. (He’s 14 months.)  He usually just looks at us like we are complete wackos.  Like he can’t believe he’s even related to us.  Eventually he might start patting his hands on his knees but he certainly doesn’t smile about it.  I’m pretty sure he’ll have disowned us by the time he turns 16.  

The second game is one we also play in the car.  “I Spy with My Little Eye.”  Jack loves this game even though he’ll pick a color before he finds an object.  Well, the other day we were playing this game on the way to Kindermusik.  “I spy with my little eye….”  the other person guesses and usually before the right answer there are a couple of, “Nooooo’s.” In a kind of sing song way that ends with a high inflection.  

Well after about 10 minutes, Will thought he would join in.  Perfect! ” No” is one of his favorite words!  So Jack and I just started by asking the Kid what he spied.  “A tree? A blue car? my pants?”  Every answer we got the same copy-cat “Noooooo.”  Maybe you had to be there but we laughed the whole way to Miss Allison’s class!
 
- posted by Heidi Forrester who is frantically trying to stay one dance step ahead of her kids!