"Just Pretend, OK?"

Micah is at the age of great pretend play. It's really fun and funny when we do it. All the adults get dragged in without being asked. That's how the kids invade your world!

Thanks to his big bro, Max is starting pretend play at a much younger age, and he seems to understand what's happening. He loves to copy his big bro anyway.

Puppies
"I am a puppy. 'Woof! Woof!' Can you pat pat me?"
So mommy said, "Come here, lil puppy." Pats him on the head.
The grandmas would SO disapprove! Pantang.
"Max is a puppy too. Pat pat him," he ordered.

Micah was bouncing on the bed. does a bit of panting. I was holding a bunch of small potato crackers and he said, "Can I have some dog food?" I gave him one and he went barking away.
Max was holding a cracker in each hand and gave one to Micah who ate it straight from his hand. Then he said, "Thank you, other puppy."
It was just too cute. I burst out laughing.


Seals
"You are the Mommy seal. Max and I are the baby seals."
Both baby seals snuggle up to mommy seal on the ice (bed), then..
SPLASH! One baby seal jumped into the sea (the mattress on the floor) and started swimming. The the smaller baby seal jumped in too. SPLASH!

"Help Mommy. Please rescue me," cried the tired baby seal.
Max also waves his arms. "Uuungh! Uuungh!"
So Mommy seal has to pull a baby seal out of the sea, and then the other.
Both baby seals are safe. They snuggle with Mommy seal for a moment on their icy home. Then..
SPLASH!

This goes on for quite a few rounds until the boys decides to play something else or Mommy gets too tired to pull them up the bed and will get them to take a drink of water or have a snack.

Dinosaurs
"Look! A baby dinosaur hatched out of the egg." He cupped his hands and brought them close to my face.
So Mommy asked, "Is it a carnivore or herbivore?"
"Carnivore. Can you give it some meat?"
Before I could do anything he picked up a stone and gave it to me. "Give that meat to the baby dinosaur."

"Oh, look! Another egg hatched!"
He cupped his hands and brought them close to my face again.
So Mommy asked again, "Is it a carnivore or herbivore?"
"It's herbivore. Please give it some plants... here, here.." He had pulled some leaves from a growth on the ground and gave them to me.

"Mommy, you be the T-rex and chase me."
So Mommy had to growl and run slow motion after him while he ran in circles around me. Max gleefully runs around mommy too. Of course when either one gets near enough the T-rex will pounce on him and sink her teeth into his ribs. Peals of squeals. The the small dinosaur will escape and the chase begins all over again. After three to five rounds, the T-rex stays slow-mo for a while. The roar becomes a low "Grrrr.."

Then Max comes to Mommy's rescue. He will stomp his feet and point to my mouth - his request for a song. So we sing and dance to the dinosaur song:

We are the dinosaurs marching, marching;
We are the dinosaurs what do you think of that?!
We are the dinosaurs marching, marching;
We are the dinosaurs we make the earth flat.
We make the earth flat, and we ROooAR!
Coz we are the dinosaurs.

Barber
We took Micah to a barber last week. We usually take him to a hairdresser who is a family friend. She is really good at doing kids' hair. Fast, clean and chatty. But she just had a minor surgery recently and can't stand up for a long period of time. Hence we had to try the boys out at a barber.

Two days after that, Micah and Max started shaving each other's head. A toy plane was used as a shaver and a pillow case used as a cloth around the neck. Micah sure was busy shaving max and then Mommy. Then Max shaved for Micah. They sre did a clean job. No hair to pick up after them. :)


The pretend play is endless. Sometimes we are all cars or trains or caterpillars becoming butterflies or tadpoles becoming frogs. They love popping out of eggs (pillows piled on them) and they love to live in their own houses (stacked-up pillows with a blanket over). Sometimes Micah will come and offer you treats of sweets and ice-creams, and at other times make you take medicine. The kids really makes you go through childhood the second round. :)