Madison celebrated her fourth birthday earlier this month. She's a kid who loves Barbies. (She pronounces it the cutest way I've ever heard. More like "bahbee"). So, for her birthday we got her a couple of new Barbies. One of them is a "king" as she calls it - more commonly known as a boy Ken doll. She also got a pink Barbie car. Unfortunately, the car is not really made to fit a Ken doll into very easily.
On her birthday, she went upstairs to play. She was up there for hours, without a single peep out of her. When she came downstairs for dinner, I asked her how her Barbies were doing.
"The King Bahbee had to have his legs cut open," was her reply.
My first thought was that she had a pair of scissors and had tried to cut his legs. "Why did he need that to happen?" I asked rather calmly (I thought).
"Well, Bahbee ran over him with her car. But I'm a nurse and so I am taking good care of him."
Luckily for Ken, his legs were not really cut open. I'm just wondering where Madison got this crazy style of pretend. She is normally such a sweet, kind girl. I guess make-believe is where you can be something that you normally are not. My other children were kitties in make-believe land. Madison, I guess, is a nurse that needs some trauma patients. (By the way, I do NOT watch soap operas!!!)
Even with her over active imagination, Madison is such a great kid. I'm so happy to have her around me every moment of every day. Happy birthday kid. I love you!
(Erin, thank you for the sweet "Sugar Bee" hat. We love it!)
This sounds so familiar! The other day Elizabeth was playing "crazy ambulance driver" with Marilla and Enoch at the farm. Enoch (7) was driving the ambulance (all imaginary) and the girls were patients who kept falling off when he made wild turns. He kept having to go back and retrieve and revive them.
ReplyDeleteOh, man, kids are crazy!