A collection of our girls' stories and how they continue to keep us young at heart, yet make us gray in doing so.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Peter(ette) Pan

As you probably know, our girls are rather obsessed with pirates. This obsession took a bit of a blow this morning, however. In the wee hours of the morning, Addi comes into our room and leans in so she is nose to nose with me (in the process of groggily waking up).
"Ma ma, is Peter Pan a girl or a boy?"
"(Yawn) He's a boy, and it's too early to get up right now, so let's go back to bed."
A deep, mournful sigh comes from Adelaide. I thought she was getting ready to argue about going back to bed, but instead she just slumps her shoulders down and scuffles back to her room. Before closing the door, I hear her say, "I like girls better."

;)

While I generally don't like to be the bearer of bad news, this was the first time she went back to bed voluntarily, so maybe it's not too bad!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Enter the World of Superheroes!

Kindergarten has been a whole new experience on many fronts ... but all the things I thought would be a concern (not knowing what the heck they're saying any given minute of the day, for example!) are not the least bit of a concern for Hannah. The part that disorients her the most is the boys in her class! Granted, there are only five of them in her class, but they are typical boys in that they are obsessed with super heroes, sports, and spend most of their time bragging of trophies they don't actually have (which their absence wasn't at ALL noticed by Hannah on play dates!) Their behaviour and obsessions are so completely foreign to Hannah that she doesn't even know what to think. Well, until now!

Surfing Netflix tonight, we found the 1967 episodes of Spider-Man. Hannah knew who he was from the picture as a couple of boys dressed up like him for Halloween, and Addi is always game for something a little scary, so why not! We thought we'd try one episode to see what it was like, and the girls have now morphed into the very same deranged 5- and 6-year-old boys that have baffled Hannah up until this point! They couldn't get enough of it!

Some of the story was lost on them because we didn't explain beforehand how Peter Parker came to be, but Jeff filled in some details while snuggling in bed as they were way too excited to fall asleep after watching it!

Nothing like bedtime stories of Spider-Man! Even the cat is interested!


The fact that a man could acquire spider traits, hang from ceilings and have "spidey instincts" wasn't at all confusing to either one of the girls. But the moment he shot webbing from his wrists (not his bottom) Hannah started asking questions and wondering if this was for real! The writer really should have checked his facts on little arachnids before writing the comics, but I'm not sure it would have taken off had it been anatomically correct!

Anyway ... we had a battle of wills tonight at bedtime that we haven't had for a long time because both girls were so fascinated with Spider-Man they didn't want to stop! Addi wouldn't let me close the door and say goodnight until I promised her we would watch another episode tomorrow. They're hooked!

Jeff is saying a few hallelujahs as surely this means less Angelina Ballerinas and Doras for sure! And what's not to love about the 60s?!

Go Spidey!