Down with the kids

We visited the toy library this week - the favorite toy for both kids was a bag of dinosaur figures in all shapes and sizes. They played with them for ages; Big Sis developing an elaborate imaginary world where the T-Rex was friendly and they all went to the park to play! Little Bro was content to crawl around the floor with each in turn practicing his loudest roars!

After half an hour of happy play I was surprised to hear Little Bro screaming hysterically. They weren’t the normal - someones not sharing properly or the toy has fallen down the back of the couch type screams, but really loud terrified wails! When I entered the room he was cowering with his face covered by his hands. Big Sis was standing back from the table pointing an accusatory figures at the dinosaurs!

I noticed a very large cockroach crawling along the table between the plastic figures. It’s hard to imagine a more prehistoric bug than a cockroach and it was about the size of the smallest dinosaur. It looked perfectly in place, except it was moving! Poor Little Bro thought the dinosaurs had come alive!

We dealt with the cockroach, but Little Bro will still not approach the plastic figures - in fact he is examining all his toys with new, skeptical eyes. I suspect he thought he was starting to get a handle on how things work around here - but that dinosaurs coming alive has made him rethink everything!