The funny thing with kids – no matter how complete your life may have felt before, once you have kids you can’t imagine life any other way. Cricket and I have some interesting ways that we bond. We play video games together, we read stories together (currently we are going back and forth between Nancy Drew and Harry Potter books), and we watch the cartoons together (some of them are quite fun even for adults). Recently the kids and I had some free time together in the evening and opted to go to some nearby shops. After doing a round at the pet store and passing in and out of a bike shop and a mattress store (who doesn’t like to bounce on beds?), we walked into a game shop to check out what Wii games were out and coming soon.
After browsing the selection and playing a round of each of the games they have on their demo systems, my son and I turn to see his sister having put a Rock Band guitar strap over her head getting ready to play it (mind you, she has never actually played any such games – she is only 5). She gets her hands in position and shouts to the audience of the store “I’m bringin’ the THUNDER!”
Being her 3-year-old little brother, Grasshopper had to follow suit by getting his own guitar and repeating the phrase as best he could remember it. In hindsight, I’m glad we had gone to the stores in the order that we did, because that was a better finale to the evening than the typical ‘don’t touch that’-fest that any trip the the pet store always becomes. This event easily washed all of that away.