As I've mentioned before, Andy, my seven-year-old, loves to read. He has an amazing imagination and truly gets into character. That doesn't just apply to books, it's video games too. When he starts to play a new Wii game or read an exciting book, he gets completely wrapped up in it. For example, when he was four or five he was really into Mario and Luigi from the Mario Bros. They were all he talked about. Well, them and all the other characters from the video game. He was always asking questions like, "Who is your favorite character from Super Mario Galaxy?" and "If you had to be a villain from Mario Bros. who would it be?". I found two hats on eBay that looked exactly like Mario and Luigi's hats (some woman had made them by hand, they were awesome) and we got some overalls and red and green long-sleeved t-shirts. He played Mario and Luigi all the time and even was them for Halloween (we went to so many trick-or-treeting activities that year that he was able to be both of them at different times). He was probably into them for at least a year.
I think the only thing that got him past the Mario Bros. was Star Wars and the Clone Wars. Once again, he went from knowing nothing about them to knowing everything and wanting to play them and be them. You can't even imagine how many Star Wars Lego sets he has, it's crazy. The questions shifted to "Who is your favorite sith?" and "What's your favorite lightsaber color?". He played the Lego Star Wars Wii game so much that by the time we sat down to watch the movies with him he knew everything that was happening. I kept asking him what was going on throughout the movie and he always knew even when it was the first time he had seen it. He could even tell me what was going to happen next. His attention to detail was extraordinary and he truly knew everything there was to know about Star Wars.
His latest thing was Percy Jackson. I liked this topic much better because it was one of my favorite electives in college, Greek Mythology. Plus, it's educational and he was actually learning about things that existed, not something that some genius movie director or video game creator made up. I did get tired of questions such as "Who is your favorite Greek god?" and "If you had to be a minor god which one would it be?", but I did enjoy the books and remembering all the stories I had learned.
Unfortunately, Percy Jackson has been replaced. This time, it's Harry Potter. Luckily Charlie is reading them with him this time, so I don't have to get wrapped up in the books and I get a little more free time in the evening, but that doesn't mean I'm not drawn into the conversation. Unfortunately I've read all seven books and there is a lot of content over seven books so when Andy asks me what happened in chapter eight in book one I have a hard time remembering back that far. So now we'll probably have to buy a wizard costume and a wand and he'll start memorizing all the spells. As long as he doesn't use them on me I'll probably be okay. I can't wait to see what kind of influences Harry has on him and how it changes our dinner time conversations.
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