Although I thought the sweet girl was relating most to Tib in our recent read-aloud of Maud Hart Lovelace's first two Betsy-Tacy books, she has recently declared herself Betsy. She's named two of her dolls Tacy and Tib, and this afternoon they've been very busy. In fact, everywhere I turn, that trio is up to something!
Today's adventures....Betsy, Tacy and Tib have played with Lego's, given each other fun hairstyles, and gone to dancing class. That would be the sweet girl's darkened room, with music playing and a big flashlight to use as a spotlight.
Although I cracked up over the idea of Betsy, Tacy and Tib (those playmates of the late 1890s) playing with Lego's, it did dawn on me that they would probably have loved them if they'd been invented back then. Tib's brother Hobbie would have too. In fact, one could almost imagine Hobbie growing up to invent them. Think about what great fun they had building a playhouse with the wood in the Mueller's basement!
I must confess that seeing the sweet girl so enthusiastically making up stories for the terrific trio makes me wish that she had a) sisters; b) nearby cousins, both in age and geography; or c) neighbors with bookworm kids.
But I will count my blessings that she is blessed with a lovely, vivid imagination!
I wonder if we could start a girl's book group?
2 comments:
Legos are pretty much the perfect toy... :D Though my brothers ended up getting much more expansive collections than I ever had, with an incredibly complex filing system to match, I loved them first and never grew tired of just the basic bucket of blocks. And of course, I know all about adventures with teddy bears! My first several years you rarely saw me without them...
S. has been in a major building mood lately -- Lego's, Lincoln Logs (something tells me you liked those too, with your great love of Abe!).
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