When you are Niki...everything is associated with a car! Recently he announced to me that "if you don't know where to go, you can use a map or a GPS!" Just the other day I told him he was smart and he said "Yes! I am a smart car." Every reference is about cars.
Right now his favorite is convertables. A friend gave us a Polly Pocket car with a magnet roof. He loves it and slides the roof on and off. He isn't interested in Polly Pocket or clothes etc, just the car! So of course I am on ebay looking for a convertable car that the roof actually goes up and down and I found a Polly Pocket one. It is in pink, and that makes Günter nervous, but what can I do?
Some years ago we had a 10 year old foster daughter and she LOVED to play store--I think she missed some of those things in her development. We actually used it as part of the incentive program to get her to do homework and household chores. I had a sheet with how many point each thing was and she would spend it or save it up to buy a more expensive thing at the store. We had things in the store we wanted to do with her (like paly a game of her choice, go out to dinner etc). but her favorites was a spoonful of marshmellow creme and being able to take her base pass for the day to school.
Recently Niki has initiated that game. He takes the cash register and a lot of coins and sets up things on the coffee table and "sells" them to us. Mostly everything is priced at 7 and we only pay one dollar (one coin). He can do this for a long time and says "Krista, come to my store!" Sometimes I get Jenna to play it with him but soon he gets frustrated because she doesn't follow his rules. As it is, he expects me to take all the things "home" so all the toys are around me by the computer right now.
It is fun to see him find these games and model after things in his every day life.
Posted by Krista at September 8, 2008 09:11 AMEver hear the story about the little boy that adored Pocahontas? His big sister had a room full of Pocahontas and the little brother told his Dad that he wanted his bedroom to be Pocahontas, too. The Dad thought nothing of it at first, but the boy persisted. Dad was worried and tried to change his son's mind talking about "boy" stuff" to no avail. Finally, the Dad asked the little boy why he wanted Pocahontas in his bedroom and the little boy replied, "she's got nice legs!" heehee (((hugs!)))
Posted by: Angi at September 8, 2008 10:29 AMI think it's funny how great he is with cars. I wouldn't worry too much about the pink car, he will have a lot of fun with it. Just give him super hero figurines to put in it. :-)
Posted by: Traci at September 8, 2008 01:12 PMI think it's funny how men get "worried" when their sons show an interest or play with "girl's" things or like pink. It's so silly. Michael can be the same way about some things. He used to really not like it much (though he never said anything) when Tristan would put on Alyssa's princess dresses and high heeled shoes. I always thought it was cute and, of course, he doesn't do it now. And as for a pink car, of course boys don't care about the color, it's all about the CAR. :) Tristan also likes to play with cars and although he has a train track, he usually just drives his cars on it. And while Michael loves the whole "pirate" themed stuff, Tristan could care less, he throws the pirates out of the ship and puts his animals on it instead. He much prefers animals and cars to anything else. Though he also thinks pink is pretty and likes princesses because he has an older sister who likes those things. I think it's all just developmental stages and their trying to figure out how the world works. My kids love to play store too! Though items in our store seem to be overpriced!!
Posted by: Heidi at September 8, 2008 06:39 PMKids can get SO creative! Tyler has been cracking me up with his imaginative play lately, too! Too bad we don't live closer to each other so our boys could get together to play!
Posted by: Kari at September 9, 2008 02:28 AM