play nice. . .

so my girls don't often play with toys at all, we have about a million of them, but only rarely do they actually play with them, usually they just hoarde them and follow me around telling me how bored they are (or how "boring" they are, as rayna says). they also play quite happily outside for as long as they can, but the moral here is that they don't often play with toys in their games. rayna can be found brushing the life out of anything hairy --including her own head, but that's generally it.
this is a rough breakdown of a game yesterday though that made me take note:

'mom, can i have 2 strings?'
'i suppose so, what do you need them for?'
'we're tying up the ponies.'
. . .(thinking) *ooookay. . .*
a little time passes, and i come to see what the quiet girls are up to (you know what i mean, that quiet play where something has to be going wrong), this is what i saw:

'that (pointing to yellow block) is the fire mom'

'ummmmm. . . oooo-kay'

few minutes later, 'mom we need scissors!'

'how about i help you untie them?' --i don't want the girls using scissors that close to my nice wooden gougable chairs, and ps, i hope all they wanted the scissors for was to untie the ponies, i did NOT ask!

me listening:

'they're good and dead now'  'lets feed them to the giants'  'yum, ponies'  'belle's my favorite'  'grumm'

etc. . .

anybody else want to try telling me little girls are always sweet, or how they play so nicely or anything?