Alexander likes sticks and guns and weapons and pretend shooting. And as much I hate it he's being a boy. He doesn't play inappropriately and he doesn't hurt anyone. (Well, he hasn't yet!) Little boys will be little boys and we need to let them play and act out their imaginations. I have no problem with this. Nor do I have any problem with the rocks and sticks and pine cones and other goodies he picks up outside. For the most part. The other day he picked up a stick, an ordinary stick and began to play with it. He was not being rough or violent but he kept waving it around. I thought he was going to scratch someone. Or worse, damage the new paint job on my walls! So I confiscated the stick and put it away "someplace safe." Eventually we both forgot about the stick.
Alexander also loves to read. He'll grab books by the handful and drop them into my lap. He loves all types of books. He does not discriminate between the "girl" books and the "boy" books and I love it. Pinkalicious is at the top of his list. He also adores Alice the Fairy by David Shannon (of the David books). The stories are wonderful and the illustrations are perfect for the preschool set. Alice is training to become a Permanent Fairy. If you are not familiar with the story a stop at your local library is a must.
After reading the book, not once but twice, the other day Alexander told me that he needed a wand. I couldn't believe we had no such thing in the house. After all, Rebecca sure had her share of magic wands and crowns when she was little. But there was nary a wand to be found! So we decided we would make our own wand. And it would be the bestest ever.
What would we use? We searched high and low and then I remembered the confiscated stick! Perhaps we could transform it from a weapon of mass destruction in to a magical wand!
So we went about taming our tree limb. I found a pale green, wire ribbon and wrapped it around the stick. Then we found a piece of cardboard that was in the recycling pile and turned it into a star. We found other ribbons that I used to tie around the stick to create streamers. Finally Alexander decorated his star with glitter paints, because all fairies love glitter. Then he pressed some buttons into the wet glitter paint. When everything had dried (We let it sit overnight) I then glued the star on with a hot glue gun. The end result of Alexander's Fairy wand was nothing less than spectacular!
Like Alice, Alexander wanted a bath of strawberry Jell-o. We opted, instead, to use several red colored bath tablets and some fruit scented bubbles. This did not disappoint.
Finally, fairies love to bake. And they love sprinkles. So our Blueberry Sparkle Bread was a perfect treat!
