Wrestling AKA Playing Superheroes
Alex has enjoyed "wrestling" for as long as I can remember.  It was a father-son thing for the longest time, but he will try to engage just about any adult in wrestling.  When Mike and Alex do it, Alex is ALWAYS the good guy (typically Spiderman) and he picks which bad guy Mike is that time (believe me...he knows ALL of them...Dr. Octopus, Lizard Man, Electro, etc.) and then they use their respective powers. 

I wrestle with Alex on occasion.  I don't know all of the villains' super powers and can't portray them correctly, nor do I really want to, so when Alex and I wrestle he is Fire Man and I am Water Girl...our powers are obvious and it works for me.  I'm going to be honest with you...secretly I really like wrestling not necessarily for the bonding time or providing endless fun for Alex.  I like wrestling because I actually get a lot of rest time while doing it.  I play dead a LOT...which means I close my eyes and rest on the pillows after he has used his powers on me in some way.  It's awesome!!!  However, as soon as I'm starting to relax with my eyes closed on the pillows, he ends up jumping on me, or whatever, but still. 

Anyway, today's wrestling went in a whole other direction than usual.  We were doing our usual Fire Man/Water Girl routine, when suddenly he said something like, "Fire Man is gone.  I'm Bad Boy now." Well, Fire Man and I had really developed quite the relationship.  I was a little thrown by the change.  After we had interacted a little while, Bad Boy left the room and I heard him talking in the other room.  He returned and said that he is now Good Boy, that he told Bad Boy three things (he relayed some gibberish that he told him) and then he was giving me hugs and being sweet to me.  I loved Good Boy, but then suddenly Good Boy morphed into Bad Boy right before my eyes!!  Aah!!  A superhero with Multiple Personality Disorder--the scariest super power of all!!!  Bad Boy said that Good Boy was in his chest?  Huh?  And that he only comes out at night.  Thankfully daddy got home at that point...I was a little nervous to see what might happen next.  Actually I'm intrigued by it and impressed with Alex's imagination.  I, personally, am not all that creative and imaginative.  He gets it from his dad...they do a lot of role-playing and I know that's a good skill to have. 

Anyway, I just had to share today's funny wrestling experience.

I plan to post updated pics of Lydia's garden soon, since some of you have requested to see them!!!