Knights & Lady
I'm sitting here listening to Carson, Josiah, Nicky and Annika. They're all playing some sort of imagination-powered game involving dragons, knights, princesses, ghosts and fires. Carson is definitely the head knight...right now he's leading all of them around and telling everyone to be "very quiet". They're hunting dragons.
Oh, there's a pirate ship! And Captain Hook!
I'm getting a big kick out of this. When I was young, my siblings and I played so many games like this...dressing up and using our imaginations. Little House on the Prairie was a favorite. And Gone With the Wind. I'm sure that I've told you all that my grandpa fashioned me a hoopskirt from an apron and some baling wire--yeah, he loved me like that. I confess that I would still love to have a real hoopskirt and a Scarlett O'Hara-ish dress. I have looked at them on eBay...there's a real market for Civil War-era reproduction clothing for re-enactments. So, if I show up at your cocktail or birthday party someday in full Scarlett regalia, don't be surprised . My wedding gown was as close as I came to my GWTW fantasies.
I'm getting off track. They just came to ask me for a key to get Carson out of Captain Hook's jail. Somehow, Peter Pan has hooked up with the knights and the lady.
Annika is all dolled up in her princess gown and tiara, Josiah has on his knight helmet and sword that we bought him at Neuschwanstein and I have fashioned swords for the rest of the party by wrapping rulers and a particularly large wooden spoon in tinfoil. They're not quite as cool as the Neuschwanstein sword, but imagination makes them work. I briefly considered Hans' sword in the closet (no, we're not secret Renaissance Fair(e) people, it's part of the uniform), but quickly came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth someone's eye.
Gotta go referee...
Oh, there's a pirate ship! And Captain Hook!
I'm getting a big kick out of this. When I was young, my siblings and I played so many games like this...dressing up and using our imaginations. Little House on the Prairie was a favorite. And Gone With the Wind. I'm sure that I've told you all that my grandpa fashioned me a hoopskirt from an apron and some baling wire--yeah, he loved me like that. I confess that I would still love to have a real hoopskirt and a Scarlett O'Hara-ish dress. I have looked at them on eBay...there's a real market for Civil War-era reproduction clothing for re-enactments. So, if I show up at your cocktail or birthday party someday in full Scarlett regalia, don't be surprised . My wedding gown was as close as I came to my GWTW fantasies.
I'm getting off track. They just came to ask me for a key to get Carson out of Captain Hook's jail. Somehow, Peter Pan has hooked up with the knights and the lady.
Annika is all dolled up in her princess gown and tiara, Josiah has on his knight helmet and sword that we bought him at Neuschwanstein and I have fashioned swords for the rest of the party by wrapping rulers and a particularly large wooden spoon in tinfoil. They're not quite as cool as the Neuschwanstein sword, but imagination makes them work. I briefly considered Hans' sword in the closet (no, we're not secret Renaissance Fair(e) people, it's part of the uniform), but quickly came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth someone's eye.
Gotta go referee...
Comments
Assuming Germany allows toy swords. Do they?
We keep meaning to get Josiah a shield at one of these schlosses, too.
Absolutely not.
Still, I do know where you can get some good quality wooden swords, just perfect for small hooli...children.
You can play Barbies again at my house someday. There probably won't be many Barbies in the Theobald house.
Andrew--well by all means, hook us up!