I know I have mentioned before the vast difference between girl play and boy play, but I heard the following pass between my daughters and son, which was worthy of note.
Location: Playroom interior scattered with Littlest Pet Shop and Legos
Time: Afternoon
Players: Leah, Mary, Caleb
Mary: Leah, come to my beauty shop. It is soooo pretty.
Leah: Oh, Mary! My hair needs to be brushed.
Mary: Okay, pretend my hair is already done, and I have a ribbon.
Leah: Your pet is so beautiful, Mary. That ribbon looks beautiful.
Mary: Thanks (tossing her Littlest Pet Shop pet's plastic hair).
Caleb: Then pretend that the ribbon turns into a sword! And then a dragon comes to eat you, and I have to kill the dragon. (He begins to slaughter the make-believe dragon with a Lego Knight, hacking the Littlest Pet Shop pets while he is at it.)
Mary: NOOOOO! Caleb, my ribbon is beautiful! I don't need a dragon.
Leah: CALEB! We're getting our hair done.
Caleb: Yeah, but you are going to fall into a boiling pot of army bullets and die, and I have to grab you with my axe so that I can kill the dragon. (Again, he proceeds to slam the girls' pets with his Lego man, slashing wildly at the air.)
Leah: Caleb, I already got saved from the bullets. I'm getting my hair done.
Mary: My ribbon saved me from the dragon.
Caleb continued the good fight for several more minutes before finally realizing that hairspray and ribbons can defeat anything.
I am ROARING!!!!!!
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