Sophia’s imagination is running wild….much like her. Her desire to pretend to be something or someone else has really grown over the last month and her imaginative play is more involved. It really depends on what cartoon she has recently seen that helps her determine what she wants to be. For quite a while she was Bolt. She would have to only be in panties (because as she pointed out “dogs don’t wear clothes”, whereas Daddy argued back that they at least have fur, hence she SHOULD wear clothes. However, I have almost given up on the “You must wear clothes at home battle”) and have this pink necklace on that was her “dog collar”. She was wearing the collar so often–to bed and in the bath–that she ended up with irritated skin that scabbed over. So of course if she is Bolt then she must have her side kicks–Phoebe is Mittens and I am Penny, BJ is the green eyed man. Then she was a Care Bear, sometimes she is Penny, a lost kitten, and a ballerina. She received a pink leotard from a neighbor girl that instigated the whole ballerina identity.

If we don’t address her as the current identity she will remind us very quickly “NO, I’m _________.” When she is a Care Bear then daddy is Dark Heart. I told BJ I think simply because he is the only boy in the house he is doomed to pretty much be all the bad guys. At first BJ and were game for it and would play along, but it has become so frequent and inconsistent. We never know who she will be at any given time. It has become kind of frustrating trying to keep up with her various identities, especially if we are trying to reprimand her and she is more distracted with telling us to get her name right then actually listening to us. I suppose we just have to hang in there as she continues to reveal to us who she is next…again and again…..

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