Creative Play

As you may know Samuel loves knights and loves to play. When these two are combined with his imagination anything can happen. I like to play with Samuel during his "rest time" when I get the chance and today - this is how it went (this is the short, very short version to give you an idea)

"Mama, you can be the green knights and I can be the red and blue knights. Here is your castle (the police man hat) and your guards (the frogs). I'm going to be the good knights and you can be the bad knights."

"Okay, we are going to do this (pointing to a book about knights in which a band of soldiers were protecting the peasants from the recreant knights - YES, he calls them 'recreant knights') - you will need a raft so that you can float up to the village. Look, according to the book, when the rafts arrive at the village they attack."

Therefore, my raft was a shoe box top. And YES, he used "according to the book" several times to correct the way I was doing things and "arrive at the village" - his vocab is funny at times - he assimilates new words so quickly.
oh, and of course we had to have village people. These were our village people - I tried to kidnap the potato head and bring him back to my castle (AKA the police hat) to be my castle cook and Samuel's knights tried to protect the potato head villagers - though, they didn't need much protecting because I was told they had invisible shields and swords to fight the enemies.
One time when I was attacking his castle I used a ping pong ball as a cannon and he said - "Mama, according to the book there are no cannons in this battle." OK. But then when I tried to bring up that knights don't have "rocket powered boots so that they can fly up to the top of the castle to avoid a sword fight" I was told "Well, Mama, I said we didn't have to do everything like the book because we can use our imaginations."

I love this kid!