I should have known I didn't stand a chance.....
It has arrived....
The obsession of a lifetime for my oldest has been passed on to my baby boy.....
Paulo bought his first Pokemon deck on Friday.
Lord...give me patience....patience to listen to him ramble about their HP, their attacks and the weaknesses, patience to listen to the cartoons playing on the TV, patience to play with him (thankfully right now he thinks you play with the cards like you play War, this works for me!) and most of all patience to play different people, a lot of different people.
It's already started, he's various Pokemon and I'm a Pokemon trainer and we ad lib our parts, mimicking what he's seen in a Pokemon cartoon or a book.
You see, Paulo loves to play different people. It is a true passion, some might say obsession, of his. He loves to take on different personalities, become animals, characters he has read about or seen in movies, we play pretend all the time. Seriously...every single day....multiple times a day. When I feel like my head is going to explode and I just cannot take it anymore I remind myself that someday, sooner rather than later, he won't want to play different people with me and then, then I will miss it. To be honest I will miss it a lot. It's a special thing between us, oh he'll ask Dad to play sometimes and Grandma gets called on to the stage from time to time but us? We play all the time. Yes sometimes it makes me crazy but it is so important to him I try not to shoot him down when he asks. There are times when I have to remind him that I like to be Momma and actually have a real conversation with my son. He's usually good about giving me that real time...then we go back to playing different people. I have been waiting for him to outgrow it...for the last three years, he's shows no signs of slowing down.
This weekend though we got a whole new source of inspiration....Pokemon...seriously, patience, and lots of it!
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