My kids are really strange lately. The past nights Little S has been playing with his sister and they'd made a fake fire on the floor and I'd hear him say "you put the bear meat on the fire and I'll go get some squirrels" He had stuffed animals in a bag he was carrying around and he'd just whip them out and plop them on the fire and Charlotte was turning them over and around sort of browning them. I said what are you playing and he said "me I'm the hunter and I bring home the food." He was using a sword as a gun but weilding it like a hunting gun slung around his shouler with a string attached which I found funny. Today Charlotte was playing with her doll and I started to put him away and arrange the little hat she'd put on him and she said "no mom don't! he's all dressed for the trip to the cemetery today--he's happy to go."
I wonder where they get these games? We don't watch t.v. so I guess it must be The Little House on the Prairie episodes we've been occasionally watching on internet. They're really fascinated with Pa and how he comes home with dead animals every once in a while. And the cemetery thing is just plain creepy. I don't think she's even at an age to understand that people die or even that cemeteries are places to go visit. Very weird.
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I'll admit it, the whole cemetery thing is a little creepy.
Kids never think about things the same way adults do. My kids played pioneers endlessly. Not sure if they pretended to visit the cemetery, but we used to take walks in a cemetery with rolling hills.
The grilling squirrels cracked me up. As for the cemetery my neighbor came over later in the same day to tell me her father has terminal cancer and hasn't got long to live. She was very freaked out and crying, holding Charlotte on her lap and talking to me. I thought when Charlotte said that it might be a sign of a death. It was such an odd thing for her to say.
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