Aidan: Mommy, I want to play with this crab.
Mommy: OK, ask daddy. I'm sure he can incorporate the crab into your game.
Aidan: Daddy, can you incorporate the crab?
Watching his lunch cook in the microwave,
Aidan: Look, my cold pocket is transforming into a hot pocket!
Trying to get a baba (sippy cup) that works to his specifications,
Aidan: This baba is too wonky.
Mommy tries to fix it, but Aidan gives it back,
Aidan: I don't think this is a good baba.
Aidan: Stop it!
Mommy: What?
Aidan: I said stop it to daddy.
Mommy: What's he doing?
Aidan: He's talking to me again!
Aidan pretending to be a ghost,
Aidan: Ooooooooooooooooooooo.
Mommy: (Acting too convincingly scared) Oh no! Don't get me!
Aidan: (Takes ghost costume off and puts on vest) I'm not a ghost, I'm a street rat. I'm your friend. Come on, love me.
Playing Superheroes,
Victim (daddy): Help! I lost my money!
Golden Boy: (Hands on hips) Young man, where are your coins?
Calling to mommy in the kitchen,
Aidan: Little mommy, I love you!
Requesting a sippy cup,
Mommy: How do you want it?
Aidan: I want it juicy.
Getting the ginormous (econo size) apple juice out of the refrigerator,
Aidan: Wow look at this jumbo!
Mommy: It's big isn't it.
Aidan: It's a big jumbo.
Playing with his Spongebob Squarepants toy,
Aidan: His name is Swiss Cheese Squarepants.
Watching basketball with mommy (GO LAKERS!),
Aidan: (When the Lakers have the ball) Go Babies!
Aidan: (When the Lakers miss a shot) Dang it (raises fist in air.)
Aidan and mommy are a crime fighting duo. Brush Aidan's face with bronzer and paint mommy's face with pink cheek stain and you've got Golden Boy and Pink Face. You can find them wherever evil is afoot. Their arch nemesis is Plastic Bag Man (daddy.) He is easily defeated by removing his plastic bag (that's where all his power lies.) While being superheroes Aidan was heard to say,
To Plastic Bag Man,
"Get out of our lair!"
"I defeated you!"
After fighting crime,
"Superheroes away!"
Basking in the praise of those we save,
Victim: How can I ever thank you superheroes?
Pink Face: Just pay it forward .
Golden Boy: Yeah, pay it forward.
The Superhero Oath,
Aidan: Golden Boy!
Mommy: Pink Face!
Both: UNITE!
Play time can be very elaborate.
We were playing pirates and Aidan decided that he was a pirate with a pegleg. This is how he achieved it:
That sweet thing managed to play like this for a while. And that thing he's standing on is the plank of course.