Performance Gene?

Preserve me, I've sired an actress.

I guess it goes to figure.

Immediately upon waking, sometimes before her eyes are open, The Boombah will hand The Birdus or me one of her stuffed animals and say, "Can you make him talk?" Or she will get under the covers and announce, "I'm an egg!" Then, while stroking the egg we have to say, "Oh egg. I love you egg. I'm going to take care of you and keep you warm and protect you until the day that you finally hatch." Often, she'll miss her cue and we'll have to repeat, "...ahem...until the day that you finally hatch." She then starts pipping and dramatically "hatches" from her egg blanket.

She loves putting on voices, especially little baby voices. The best is when she puts on a deep, gruff voice like when she makes our Halloween decorations talk. Sometimes, when she's pretending to be an animal, she'll intersperse her English with bursts of animals sounds. For instance, if she's being a duck while singing "Jingle Bells" it will sound like this:

"Jingle bells *quack*
Jingle bells *quack*
Jingle *quack* all the way *quack*"

It becomes quite a production when a lamb and a duck sing a duet.

Many of The Booms' games start this way:

How about you be...

(choose one)
a) Daddy Warbucks
b) the monster
c) the daddy
d) Miss Clavell
e) the children
f) the teacher
g) the audience
h) the dragon that only talks to ladybugs
i) the cat
j) the doggie


...and I'll be...

(choose one)
a) the baby that doesn't talk
b) the witch
c) Madeline
d) Annie
e) the teacher
f) the mommy
g) the children
h) the dancer
i) the baby dressed as a ladybug
j) the doggie

Right now, I'd say that pretending is defintiely her favorite play activity.