Monkey Business

So recently my boy has discovered the cartoon, Curious George. He is funny when it comes to what he watches. He has a few things that he watches over and over and Phineas and Ferb has been his favorite for a while and we were glad when he switched from Dora to Phineas and Ferb. But Curious George is different because my boy imitates George as much as he can. We watch him with pleasure but the other night he included us in his pretend play. George was having x-rays done of his foot and then the doctor put a cast on it and this is where we come in. My boy needed someone to x-ray his foot and then it needed to be wrapped, just like George. My boy is eight and when other kids were pretending to feed their babies or have Godzilla smash an entire town, he was playing with his cause and effect toys. As he got older he mastered the iTouch without being shown and now he uses my iPad with ease.

We have always encouraged pretend play but at some point you just come to realize that maybe just maybe it isn't going to happen. Looking back on the situation where he invited us in to play with him, I realize now that we must have looked confused and uncertain about our role and what was being asked of us. But it didn't take us long, we x-rayed and wrapped his foot so many times and honestly I think we could have done it all night long, but a little pretending boy needs his sleep.  So we had to say goodnight to George and my boy hobbled off to get his teeth brushed with his foot still wrapped.  I am not sure everyone will understand how this moment of monkey business made us all feel.  We even hollered at my girl so she could see what was going on and of course she was just as happy as we were when she saw that little foot wrapped.  Several things were happening here that don't normally happen and for starters he was allowing us to wrap his foot while he sat there.  I can't get him dressed without a wrestling match so this was just unusual.  Second he included us!

I often forget about all that my boy doesn't do until one day he goes and acts like a monkey and realize I have missed that all this time.