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[cahn]

...My three-year-old has just informed me that he wants to go to the Halloween party tonight as Posa.

Yes, the Marquis of Posa from Don Carlo.

I don't know whether I should be very pleased or very, very frightened.

(To be fair, I think all this means is that he wants to wear his green cape, and I seem to have successfully shunted this into being "Super Rabbit Boy" (the hero of some books we've been reading) but...)

ETA: Now he wants me to be the Prince. So I have a green cape too now. People are gonna be really confused...

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[wendelah1]

My son at age three was obsessed with the Ring Trilogy, probably because we had watched and taped it off Great Performances. He wasn't allowed to have toy weapons but he craftily made himself a sword out of a coat hanger.

Alas, his interest in grand opera was not a lasting one.

[cahn]

Hee! That's awesome! It's too bad it didn't last. I don't know if A's interest will last either -- it's based on a single scene that involves swords, since both kids are very interested in swords. (We won't buy toy weapons except for that one lightsaber that we couldn't resist but E has made a sword out of cardboard, and usually they use pool noodles.) ...actually they might like the parts of the Ring that involve swords, hee.