Stories!

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DD#2 has just started telling stories.

My favourite was when we were all on the couch, and I noticed there were two dummies on the floor and told her to put them back in the bouncy-bounce (bouncinette) and she refused and had a meltdown so I got DD#1 to do it instead.

Later she tells me "Once upon a time mummy and cassie and feo (Theo) on the couch and dummies on the floor and the end!"
I especially like how she cut it short just before HER part came into it

We've also had her story of how the day passes: "Morning morning morning dark dark dark the end!"

And this long saga: "Once upon a time I went to the doctor the end!"

Priceless. Anyone else got a toddler in this phase?

[Calluna]

Too cute, she'll be writing novels in no time!

[meow]

That's gorgeous!

My son recites books so the closest he gets are from his In The Night Garden books "Once upon a... night garr-da"

[Deedles]

I like stories that get straight to the point!

My DS loves to sing me stories. They are never ending though. I just love hearing his creativity!

They are such clever little things aren't they.

[Boo Boo]

DD and I have a ritual at bedtime, called 'magic stories' - she tells me what she wants me to say - it usually involves Dora and Diego, ie, "Dora and Diego go shopping with their mummy and then they get separated, so they find a policeman and he calls out on a loud speaker and then Dora's Mummy finds them", and then I have to repeat it back to her with embellishments...it is hillarious!

[AliBaby]

That is gold and made me smile! Love threads like this.

BooBoo- I love that idea of magic stories! They sound so funny!

[sasha]

I just love when they start telling stories! S will now play with his toys and make up voices for them - too funny (and rather illuminating as to how we must sound to him!).

We have stories where S has requests about what's going to be in the story too... it started when he woke up with nightmares about things he saw (probably shadows), one of whom was the Zig Zag Dragon. So I told him, "Oh, no, the Zig Zag Dragon is a friendly dragon! Do you want to know what he did when he came to visit one day....?"

Now the Zig Zag Dragon is our best friend, and takes us on trips to see Grandma and Grandad, and through magic doors in the cubby house - it's so much fun.

[YoYo]

YES!

My DS is starting to re-cap the day in story mode before bed! It's so funny!

Wish I had the brains to remember some of them!

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S will now play with his toys and make up voices for them - too funny

Hehe at about 10pm the other night DD#2 was in her room chatting away (clearly not in bed and her light was on ) and it seemed she was acting out the baby getting put in the bouncy-bounce and then kissing him goodnight and going off to make dinner

Funniest thing is she just passes out on the floor in the middle of her toys with her light on. You can't move her once she's asleep so we just turn her light off. So in the morning you ask "did you sleep in your bed?" "No, I sleeped on the floor!"

My other daughter never had the phase of telling stories or acting out things with her toys so this is all a first for me

[YoYo]

Just remembered a story...

DS now has his own baby - named Darcie like his new baby sister (original)....it's a toy chicken. He carries her around, pats her back "awwww it's OK baby" breastfeeds her (makes a little squirty noise) I have to help him wrap her in a towel so he can carry her around. He puts her in the swing. It's Very cute! I'm loving seeing his imagination...it helps me do things with him too!