My girl has a wonderful imagination. She loves to pretend things, and comes up with things that I often don't know where she picked the ideas up. Like today, for example. We were running some errands. She sits in her car seat in the back, and often will talk or sing to herself. As I listened, she pretended that all the fingers on her hand were a family. They sang a song together, and gave hugs and kisses to each other, and then she named them all. There was a dad and mom, and even a baby. I'm not sure if the other fingers were just ignored, or maybe friends that come over to play. She sang the "I love you" song from Barney, which includes a hug and kiss, and had to sing several verses to get enough for each finger/person. It was VERY cute to listen to her playing all by herself. Then we stopped at a store where her Daddy went in, while we waited in the car. Elise decided it was the perfect time to sing the wheels on the bus song. At first, she wanted us each to do our own verse, which she assigned, and take turns singing. Then, instead of singing about the regular people and items that are on the bus, she added some new ones. Her bus had the baby, a mama, the wipers, the doors, the money, the horn, and even some veggies going 'hoing' (from the VeggieTales version of the song), but it also had an 'elphalant' that was trumpeting, and a mouse that was squeaking on it. This made for a very exciting song, because there were unusual visitors on the bus, and you never knew who would be there next!
This great imagination is also a bit of a challenge to predict sometimes. We got her some special things for Christmas/birthday presents, and have taken them out of their packaging and are letting them air out and get put together when we have a moment when she is doing something else. I got several things all put together, and put them in the back of my craft room, and then had to think of what to put in front of them that would be large, and not easy for her to get around or see over. We are airing out our pillows as well, and Elise likes to play with them sometimes. There were about 8 of them in this craft room, so I piled them strategically in front of the gift items, so from her height, you can't see over this pile. Later that day, she came into the room. She saw this great pile of pillows, went over to them, and started climbing them in an attempt to get behind the stack. I asked her to not climb on them but to play with something else. She turned to me, and said, "But Mama, I'm the green Care Bear, and I need to take a nap in my rain cloud." This was tough to reason her out of.....Luckily, Daddy told her we could make a rain cloud bed out of blankets on the couch in the front room! She thought that was pretty cool. We came out front and talked about Care Bears. We had read a Care Bear book that day, and she saw some old Care Bear cartoons in Oregon. She asked if we could watch some more Care Bears, especially the train one. I told her those movies were at Grandma Sue's house, and she responded, "Let's get on the airplane, go visit Grandma Sue's house!" I don't think she really gets the whole distance thing yet, but it is good she remembered it takes a plane to get there. So, periodically since then she has told me she is different colored Care Bears, and wants to go climb on the pillows......I'm thinking it may NOT have been the brightest gift hiding idea I've ever had, and may have to be modified before the next two months are over.....
This great imagination is also a bit of a challenge to predict sometimes. We got her some special things for Christmas/birthday presents, and have taken them out of their packaging and are letting them air out and get put together when we have a moment when she is doing something else. I got several things all put together, and put them in the back of my craft room, and then had to think of what to put in front of them that would be large, and not easy for her to get around or see over. We are airing out our pillows as well, and Elise likes to play with them sometimes. There were about 8 of them in this craft room, so I piled them strategically in front of the gift items, so from her height, you can't see over this pile. Later that day, she came into the room. She saw this great pile of pillows, went over to them, and started climbing them in an attempt to get behind the stack. I asked her to not climb on them but to play with something else. She turned to me, and said, "But Mama, I'm the green Care Bear, and I need to take a nap in my rain cloud." This was tough to reason her out of.....Luckily, Daddy told her we could make a rain cloud bed out of blankets on the couch in the front room! She thought that was pretty cool. We came out front and talked about Care Bears. We had read a Care Bear book that day, and she saw some old Care Bear cartoons in Oregon. She asked if we could watch some more Care Bears, especially the train one. I told her those movies were at Grandma Sue's house, and she responded, "Let's get on the airplane, go visit Grandma Sue's house!" I don't think she really gets the whole distance thing yet, but it is good she remembered it takes a plane to get there. So, periodically since then she has told me she is different colored Care Bears, and wants to go climb on the pillows......I'm thinking it may NOT have been the brightest gift hiding idea I've ever had, and may have to be modified before the next two months are over.....
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