I know I have shared with you Grace's short attention span with
anything crafty, but occasionally we have a good time. This normally involves a lot of work or effort on my part, and not much craft on Grace's part.
Case in point, last week we spent about a half hour playing with play-doh. The catch? Grace doesn't make anything, she requires me to make toys for her. Her most requested toy is a baby.
What's funny about this is that she doesn't play with baby dolls. Given the choice between a toy doll and a car, she will 95% of the time choose the car. But somehow a play-doh baby fits in a different category... a category where she becomes the mother.
She always asks for a blanket for the baby. As I was making the blanket, she ran to the tupperware drawer to find a crib. She cuddles the baby, gives it hugs.
And carefully puts it in (and takes it out and puts it in and takes it out of) the crib.
Sometimes she sings a nice lullaby... or marching
song to the baby.
Eventually her curiosity or boredom get the best of her and she squishes the baby.
Then requests a new toy.
It's fun to see her play so gently and motherly with the play-doh doll. It makes me wonder why the play-doh gets the mother treatment, but no other toy does.
Case in point, last week we spent about a half hour playing with play-doh. The catch? Grace doesn't make anything, she requires me to make toys for her. Her most requested toy is a baby.
What's funny about this is that she doesn't play with baby dolls. Given the choice between a toy doll and a car, she will 95% of the time choose the car. But somehow a play-doh baby fits in a different category... a category where she becomes the mother.
She always asks for a blanket for the baby. As I was making the blanket, she ran to the tupperware drawer to find a crib. She cuddles the baby, gives it hugs.
And carefully puts it in (and takes it out and puts it in and takes it out of) the crib.
Sometimes she sings a nice lullaby... or marching song to the baby.
Eventually her curiosity or boredom get the best of her and she squishes the baby.
Then requests a new toy.
It's fun to see her play so gently and motherly with the play-doh doll. It makes me wonder why the play-doh gets the mother treatment, but no other toy does.
5 comments:
That was sweet. I love it.
So cute!
Ha ha ha! I love it. What does this mean for baby Peterson though? When she gets sick of him/her, is she going to squish him/her?
Ella is pretty good at squishing Ivan when she wants to "hug" him:)
p.s. I'm totally jealous of our husbands who get to hang out right now.
Annie likewise does not seem to play with dolls, we did however, have a break-through last week when she played Mommy and Baby with two Transformers. The baby was demanding food from the Mommy. Sounds about right ;) Kali
maybe it's bc she knows that if she's rough with it, it will go away. so she's sweet with it bc she has to be until of-course she's bored and then squishs it.
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