The Ninja Turtle phase has hit us really hard. I am still trying to process this because Anderson never loved them longer than 5 minutes. With the exception of a very short lived Transformers stage, Anderson never really cared for cartoons or super heroes (except Sponge Bob-is he a super hero?), instead he gravitated toward real people like firefighters, scientists and Harry Potter.
Max, however, truly believes that he is Michelangelo. I do not think there is a shred of doubt in his body that he is not actually supposed to be living in a sewer. He attacks everything, jumps off of everything and only wears NT clothes.
"Ninja Turtles don't take baths!"
"I a Ninja Turtle; not Ferg!"
"I NEED my sword at school! I Mikey!"
"Mama! Ninja Turtles don't wear shoes! I will not stop on anything outside!"
It is all around adorable and slightly exhausting.
GG for the win-she bought him this awesome Ninja Turtle costume for halloween. He is seriously so cute.
His school probably wonders why he is always in a variation of pajamas/rash guards, but I will not choose the clothes battle as the cross to die on, so they can judge away. I do take off his dirty pajamas and put on clean pajamas each morning, so I am still technically parenting.
Sweet Kennadee and Marisa invited us to a Little Gym class where Max/NT proceed to jump off of everything and they cry uncontrollably to the point where we had to leave.
Side note-how cute is Kennadee??
The day he was "sick" at Anderson's lunch all of the kids thought he was the greatest pet turtle.
Another pic from school
He has all of these swim shirts but he somehow ended up in a regular shirt and a water birthday party because that is how little I pay attention to the clothing choice.
Haha, I love how arbitrary kid obsessions are. And I love that you embrace his crazy and allow his inner Ninja Turtle to sing. Good mommy.
ReplyDelete"I a Ninja Turtle- not Ferg."
ReplyDeleteI can't even.
I have been waiting on this post.
Girl. The clothes battle is definitely not a battle to pick. And putting clean PJs on in the morning is totally parenting.
ReplyDeleteJacob went through a NT phase but not to this extent. His two obsessions were transformers (horrible, just horrible) and legos. But when he went through the NT phase the rest of the world was in a NT remission apparently bc I couldn't find them anywhere-same problem with Ghostbusters and now you see those everywhere too, so basically jacob paved the way-you're welcome. Anyway the NT phase hit right before Christmas and one day I had to run into the Bartlett Freds for jon's mom and look and behold they had all four turtles, splinter, a bad guy and a couple vehicles. It was glorious.