Let’s play

Sim has discovered the beauty of playing the things he’s seen or read.  I already told you about Kermit, but now he’s also been Bill from Cheaper by the Dozen (Tess gets to be the baby, Bob, when we play that game.  It was interesting to have Sim call Tess “Bob” for a few days.), and then he decided to be the kid who took the crybaby’s gingerbread in Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.  Happily, he didn’t run around snatching things from others, since his sisters weren’t very interested in that game.  Who can blame them?  They would have been assigned either the character who has to cry constantly or the character who has to deal with the character who cries constantly.

Today, he’s Peter in Peter and the Wolf.  Although Sim likes to assign roles to everyone -- Hannah’s the bird, Naomi’s the bird’s cousin, Tess is the duck (since she doesn’t object to being the one eaten in the story, and the other siblings do), and Dada, when he gets home, will be the grandfather – I don’t have a part in this game.  I am not allowed to be the cat – I’m too big. I’m not supposed to be the grandfather – I’m not a boy.  I am not allowed to be the wolf or the hunters – I don’t really know why.  Thus, I’m at liberty to tell others about this game.

The best way to play this game is to start AS SOON AS THE BOOK OR MOVIE ENDS!  And then to play it for a while.  Sometimes for days. 

**Update!  Hannah is now the wolf.  And the rope keeps pulling her tail all the way off.  Whoops!