Developing imagination

This morning Ransom told me quite the story. I really don’t know where he got the theme material from, but the extent of it was such:

A monster came to our house and ate Ransom, Daddy, and Mama multiple times. Then the monster drove Daddy’s car to the grocery store and bought peanut butter, apples, balloons, and teddy bear cookies (teddy grahams). Then it drove to Walgreens to get some vitamins. After that it went to cousin Elijah’s house, where it ate Tirzah, Berea, and Uncle Christian. Then Peter ate the monster. And there was no more monster at the house.

The end.

Another entertaining episode from a few days ago:

Frequently on Sunday evenings, Andy joins Uncle Tim in an online game of Unreal Tournament, which is a video game where you run around and shoot the other team as far as I can gather. There might possibly be some sort of plot where you have to capture the flag and return it to somewhere.
Anyhow, Ransom enjoys watching when Andy plays. And while Tim and Andy are generally on the same team, Andy takes great delight in shooting Tim whenever he gets the opportunity. So when Andy tells Ransom he's going to play, it's generally referred to as "shooting Uncle Tim."

There's the setup. The other afternoon while I was working on this and that, Ransom found a little green gun and of his own accord began a game of chasing an imaginary Uncle Tim about the house, with many cries of "I missed Uncle Tim!" "He got away" "He's hiding!" "I shot Uncle Tim!" "He's in the closet!" and the like. Multiple times he trapped that sneaky Uncle Tim in the closet, but Tim always seemed to escape.

Anyway, it entertained him for a solid 15 minutes, and I got some work done! Of course with verbal encouragement to keep chasing Tim and shooting him as often as he could. :-)

In other news, today we took our hospital tour so we'll know where to go and what to do when the time comes. We also mostly set up the baby closet (our closet, now with pack-n-play, rocking chair, and stocked with diapers and all those necessities), and put the car seat in the car. Still got almost 6 weeks to go, but it's good to have all that prep stuff out of the way just in case.