I love the way her mind works.

Since it is so cold around here, we have been finding ways to keep ourselves amused that do not involve stepping outside. The other day we found ourselves trying out THE SIMS. It was a neat way of the four of us to spend a little time together, and it was neat to see the way that the kids viewed us. We had Bug and Munch design our characters...they put a lot of time and effort into picking out hair and bodies for our avatars...Keith did a great job of recreating both of the kids on the computer.

Later on in the day, Big asked of she could do a scenario on her own. She asked for little help, and i was amazed at her ability to have picked up the concept of the game so quickly...but my real interest was in the families that she created.

Bug choose to make two families. Her first one was traditional..Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Papa.(ok traditional for us). Her second family, was Mom, Mom, Sister, Sister.

As i watched her create a world for her characters, i had to ask her why she had made the choice to have no men in the second family. She looked at me like i had two heads. "Because the Daddy is gone....the Grandmother moved in to help the Mommy with the kids" she said. The educator in my brain was suddenly full of questions. Why no male? Why not a Grandfather, since that is what she has in her own life. Why was the Daddy not part of the picture?

Her answer to our question of How she came up with that family?
In one of the books i read there was a family who had no daddy, and the gramma came to live with them. I like to pull ideas from books i have read mommy. I like to make up different stories for them. things that did not happen in the books they are in. I want to know what happens after the story ends.

A girl after my own heart.

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[Keri]

That's fascinating. Wish I'd had that opportunity with Kel when she was little.