Bad Guys!
Ever since Will caught a glimpse of my friend Scott and I playing Halo 3, Will has been obsessed with “fighting bad guys”.
Lately, he uses a hammer from his xylophone as if it were a magic wand. He waves it around talking about fighting bad guys. Sometimes he proclaims, “I’m a bad guy!”. And then he makes funny noises with his mouth as he waves around his “bad guy stick”, as if casting some sort of spell.
It is thoroughly amusing.
Saturday, Will and I hung out most of the day. Malin had a photo shoot in the morning, so we played couch potato, watched cartoons, and then I started to make some food. Malin was going to a “girl’s night out” party later that evening and was taking a casserole. Will and I got bored, so we started cooking on her behalf: Macaroni and Cheese with Gorgonzola and Prosciutto.
The dish was almost halfway finished by the time Malin returned home. Later that evening, Malin went to her party, so Will and I played bachelors for the evening.
He has really gotten into playing Webkinz – it’s an online site to which you get a one-year subscription when you buy a Webkinz stuffed animal. Will’s Franny (my mom) gave him a black cat Webkinz, and Will has been addicted ever since. His favorite part is the arcade, wherein there are many simple Flash video games that are reminiscent of some of the offerings of PopCap Games. He is starting to get the hang of using a mouse. His latest maneuvers include click-and-dragging and using the touch-pad on the laptop. His coordination still needs some improvement, but he is learning. He even gets indignant when you try to help him with it.
So Will and I played Webkinz for a little bit. And then Will started playing “the bad guy”, prancing around the room with his “bad guy stick”. He’s wearing a diaper in the photos because he had just recently arisen from a nap (he often has accidents in his sleep, so we usually put him in a diaper to keep from washing sheets everyday – we’re trying to conserver water in our time of drought).
More pics of Will, casting spells against evildoers:
