My boys are really into dinosaurs these days! I can't even really remember how it started. Maybe because we got a book on dinosaurs and have a few small plastic dinosaurs but it was really fueled by a trip to the zoo last weekend to see the dinosaurs! Dinosaurs at the zoo, you ask? Yep! There is a new exhibit at our zoo with life-sized, roaring, moving dinosaurs. We thought the boys would be terrified but instead they were utterly enthralled:)
Since then, the boys have been roaring and making dinosaur claws and pretending that they are different types of dinosaurs. Samuel will ask, "What dinosaur are you, daddy?" And daddy will say something like, "Oh, I'm a...T-Rex!" And Samuel will respond, "No, you're a stegosaurus!"
This afternoon the boys were absolutely convinced that they heard a dinosaur downstairs. It was hilarious to listen to them! It all started because of a drilling type noise on the floor below us that made a really strange sound:
Samuel, gasping, "What's that noise?!"
Zakkai echoes gasp and question, "Wha's dat noise?!"
Mommy: "I think someone is drilling downstairs. Probably Ivan. (our janitor)."
Samuel shakes his head, "No, mommy. That's not right. It's a....dinosaur!!"
Zakkai with wide eyes, "A dinosaur!"
Samuel and Zakkai talk amongst themselves for several minutes, while all is quiet downstairs on the dinosaur front. Then suddenly, we hear the noise again!
Zakkai: "It's a T-Rex!!"
Samuel: "Yeah, mommy, that's a really big T-Rex downstairs!"
Both boys run to the window, positive that they are going to catch a glimpse of the elusive, gigantic T-Rex that lives on the 2nd floor of our building. He's a sneaky one!
Shhhh...don't tell them!
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In college, I nannied for two little girls and a boy and the little girls were very into playing with toy dinosaurs. And they would only call them by their proper scientific name- never the green dinosaur or the blue one, it was always "the stegasauras" and "the velociraptor". Very amusing to hear from two little girls!
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