I’ve mentioned how much Rebecca enjoys pretend play. She is sharing this love with lots of other people . . . and things lately.
A while back, she insisted “I Buzz!” when we called on “Becca” for our family prayer one evening. We informed her Buzz was not allowed to pray, but Rebecca could. After we convinced her our minds were made up, she stuck out her arms and legs and wiggled them.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“I shakin’ off my ‘tendin’ a be Buzz Wightyeaw.”
After the prayer, she mimed pulling on sleeves and boots: “I puttin back on my ‘tendin’ a be Buzz.”
This summer, we’ve crammed in waaay more travel than I’d initially planned. On her first trip, we stayed in a hotel. As we departed for home, Rebecca repeatedly asked if we were going to the hotel (since I guess we said “home” when we said we were going to the hotel while we were there). Finally, she understood that we were driving back to our house.
“Oh!” she exclaimed. “Hotew was jus’ ‘tendin’ a be ours home!”
She’s used this logic on other nouns as well. When she doesn’t want to go to bed, like tonight, she’ll inform us that “The daytime is just ‘tendin’ a be nighttime.” Or when she was having a little trouble on a playground and I read to her the sign that said the playground was designed for kids ages 5-12, and she told me she was five, she clarified, “I was just ‘tendin’ a be five.”
What funny things did your kids pretend?
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It is the cutest thing ever!
those are PRECIOUS stories! What a smart lil girl to put all those ideas together under an umbrella of pretend!
Gwen is a lil ‘dramatic’, and not only in the tantrum kind of way… she also legitimately enjoys pretending to have various emotions. She will curl up in a corner, ‘cry’, and when you ask her what is wrong or if she needs a hug, she’ll respond, “no, I just need to stay over here and cry”. It is kind of funny… but I can already tell she’s going to be DRAMA in HS!!!!