It had to be blogged !!!!

Well Tyler is at a stage where everything or anything that is at all important or interesting is a sword and/or a sword belt (being a shealth). You can't trust him with anything because somehow if there is any angular quality to it - it is a sword and anything with any capacity to hold or surround something is then a sword belt. For instance... Hot wheels tracks are swords and his underpants - sword belts. Floral foam cones - sword belts and the little wire part - the sword. Or as you can see - wrapping paper tubes a sword (sword belt his pants) and helmet for protection! We had taken away his reindeer sword belt (shown below) and he climbed up on the counter to get a glass cup out of the cupboard for his sword belt. At that point we realized the reindeer wasn't that bad at all! :)

It is probably a huge honor to be considered a 'bad guy' which is usually the central figure in all of his imaginings. He is either pursuing the 'bad guys' or he is the bad guy. He sometimes will tell us we are the bad guys, to be nice so we can play too in his crazy little world!

He loves 3" tall men/guy figures - pirates, soldiers, really anything with a sword! if he can't find a sword he'll make one out of a pen cap. If they have horses too you might as well have given him a million dollars. If we take them away because he is getting to distracted to eat, clean, listen, etc.... well we might as well have cut off his limbs and sold them off at the black market.

We've enjoyed this little world of his, but when we saw the reindeer, it was just too good to pass up blogging it.

At John's work Christmas party I got a little reindeer (pooper) treat dispenser from the white elephant exchange. The kind where you put in the candy and push down on it's hinde legs and it 'poop's out the treats. Gross - but really cool and funny to little boys! Tyler fell in love with it and we started using that for potty treats (since we had stopped doing treats at all) but he started trying to take the reindeer so I put it up. It was gone after a day or so and I forgot all about it.




















Tyler was helping me cook on night and while looking in a drawer he found the knife sharpener I didn't know we had and immediately it was his sword - he got down and went around 'getting bad guys'. But very soon after that he came back saying sword, sword belt with a very sumo like stance! We realized he had decapitated the reindeer and skewered it for his sword belt. Then he proceeded to go find a horse to ride while he fought the bad guys. First it was a little caterpillar (one the floor between his legs) and when that was too hard to squeeze into place while he 'rode' he found the next toy on the floor - the stuffed reindeer which worked great. While riding around he found the little donkey from our stuffed/bean bag nativity set and rode that for a while, but I guess decided the reindeer was a much better size and allowed more freedom in his pursuits! So he started walking around with the reindeer between his legs taking his sword in and out of the little decapitated pooper reindeer saying 'get bad guys' 'my sword, sword belt'. It was hilarious!































And if this is something that is just funny if you were there - at least you can see from all this how desperate my entertainment has become! Seriously though, this child is hilarious. He's 2 1/2 and I know we've hit the hard part of the 2 year old stage, but sometimes... he just is so funny... and doesn't seem to notice or care that we laugh like we do!