let’s pretend

Lately Eli is into pretending to be different animals or characters.   He’ll say out of the blue, “Eli be a lion,” etc.  He will growl and crawl around pretending to be a lion, or beg to have Mike or I hold his hand and skip around the house singing, “We’re off to see the Wizard…”  He recently pretended to be a lion at a holiday gathering where he loudly growled in the face of a 14 month old.  That didn’t go over so well.  On this day, he decided he wanted to be a ‘dino.’  

 

Silas pretending to be a MN fisherman. 

A month or so ago, Eli dressed up as a pirate and then came running into the living room saying, “I’m scared!”  I said, “of what?”  He said, “that guy,” and took off running to the hallway wall to show me his shadow.  Of course my camera flash ruined the shadow, but this was him staring at his shadow.  He wasn’t sure what to think.

My cute little pirate.

Eli pretending to be doing a little “work” wearing my work badge.

 

This is a silly picture.  I think Mike took it…..I’m not sure what was going on, but you can make up your own interpretation.  He keeps us smiling.