Sunday, July 29, 2012

Hammer

I bought Violet a little stick helicopter, the kind that you spin in your hand and it flies a few feet before hitting the ground. I spun it and Violet watched. She ran to get it where it landed.
"Bring it back, Violet."
"No, I'm gonna do it," she said.
"But you don't know how. Bring it here and I'll show you."
"No, I show you," she said and ran off with it.
When I caught up to her, she was banging it into trees. "I'm fixing this tree." After a few more taps, she declared the tree fixed and moved on to the next one. A few taps to that tree she said, "It's perfect."
She fixed a couple more trees, fixed the deck and then came over to me with her "hammer." "I'm gonna fix you," she said. She gave me a few taps of the hammer and told me that I was "all better."
I think it's great when a toy gets used in a totally unusual way, but it's still a hit.

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