Saturday, March 28, 2009

Play Time

I went in to play with Boo and Puck and earlier. They were playing "school" and were in need of a teacher, so I was the one who was recruited to fill the role. The only problem that I encountered was the fact that all I was supposed to be doing that I could tell was that I was in the Teachers' Lounge rather than in the classroom doing the job of teaching.

All of this seems pretty normal I guess if you don't know Boo. See I went in to play and spent the whole time I was in there being told the set up of what we were doing. I was in the Teachers' Lounge, but I had gotten there by going over the top of the bunk beds it seems to get there which was, of course, the secret way. Boo on the other hand had discovered the way there and sneaked up and saw me in the lounge talking to the other teachers. Not about anything I guess, just talking. She then went back the other way and told Puck, who had gone to bathroom which allowed for Boo to do this sneaking about. While in the lounge, I couldn't go very far due to the imaginary wall that was there (this is why I had to go over the bunk bed I suppose). Boo was also the only one if the room of pretend students who knew about the secret way to the lounge. She was however going to inform Puck about the secret. Keep in mind that during all of the above, all I was actually doing was laying on the bottom bunk waiting to get to play. That was all that I really got to do as far as this time of playing seeing as how Boo and Puck starting fighting soon after that.

This is not the first time either that I have gone to play with Boo and didn't really get much chance to actually play. It used to be that I would go in to play with her, and we would spend the whole time watching her line up her Little People. This was so they could all go to "the" party" or whatever.

Now maybe it's just me, but I really don't remember playing that way. When my friends and I got together to play something, we didn't spend a lot of time setting it up with all kinds of stories and details...we just grabbed what we were playing with and went to it. We might decide on a couple of things before hand, like what the game was we were playing, but I'm pretty sure that we didn't take all kinds of time laying it all out before we played. That would have taken too long for us.

So maybe it's just Boo that likes to play like that. Maybe it's lots of kids that are that age. Whatever it is, it sure makes play time different for me when it comes to them. Peace and Love y'all.

2 comments:

mommyfranklin said...

Not to stereotype here, but I think it's a girl thing. Our 8yo daughter does the same thing. The other day, our boys (ages 4 & 5) had put together a tent the tent and were playing superheroes. They decided they wanted Emily to play with them. It wasn't long before she had written out scripts, introduced costume changes, and made it much more complicated than they had intended. They just wanted to play...

KJ's Blog Spot said...

Who knows maybe she'll be a great screen writer some day.