Wreck This House
Aiden got a tether ball as a prize at the St. James Festival last weekend. It’s literally a ball with a string poked through it; a loop on the other end goes around your wrist. You can throw the ball and it has no choice but to come back to you. Aiden played with it for a bit, but Gavin got more use out of it as a teether.
The other day, Aiden and Gavin were playing in the nursery. Aiden had the tether ball and was saying something that I couldn’t make out. He’s been talking a lot more lately, but sometimes I need to go back and clarify what he is saying. I thought that I heard him say, “Rock this house”. That’s an odd thing for him to say. Who taught him that?
Then he whipped the tether ball at the playhouse. He was actually saying, “Wreck this house”. Ah hah… Aiden has a set of Tonka books that use construction vehicles to teach sounds. The book featuring a crane equipped with a wrecking ball highlights words with a short “e”. The wrecking ball “wrecks” an abandoned apartment building.
It’s nice that Aiden is speaking more and he has shown a real knack for imaginative play. The tether ball didn’t actually wreck the playhouse, but Aiden did run to get his bulldozer to clean it up. Gavin, safely inside the non-wrecked playhouse, was not injured. I’m left to wonder which is preferable: wrecking the house or rocking the house?
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My guess is the “wrecking” now is going to be better than “rocking” at age 16 or so! Cute story.
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