This is a Batman post
So, hey. Remember when Quentin was obsessed with penguins? Good times.
But penguins don't come with a narrative attached, you guys. So, welcome to Quentin's new obsession: Batman.
I think it started when I switched from playing Lego: Lord of the Rings to Lego Batman. Watching me play video games is one of Q's favorite forms of entertainment (which I encourage for a number of reasons--one of which is I want women gamers in the background of his life), and he really enjoyed watching Batman and his friends and villains. They are, after all, colorful and cartoonish.
When I got back from Italy at the beginning of June, Jay had bought Q a Batman shirt at Target; the kind that comes with a cape velcroed on. It was all downhill from there.
Q enjoys spinning in a department store mirror cage.
He had to wear the shirt at least once a week, at first. He'd wail when it was dirty. Eventually we got a second Batman shirt, courtesy kcobweb, but at first he wouldn't wear it because it didn't have a cape. Batman needs a cape, you guys!
Eventually we convinced him to wear it. Eventually, eventually, I attached velcro to it (and another one) so that all his Batman shirts can have capes.
At the same time (when I was in Italy) that Q got the new shirt, Jay bought him the Lego: Batman movie. And, man. Q watched this shit out of it for about two months. I think our peak was right when he got the stitches and I let him watch it 5 times in a row. IN A ROW. It's a good movie as far as these things go. Funny, smart, full of enjoyable references for parents (quotes and visual references to the 1978 Superman and 1989 Batman, forex.) Includes Cyborg and Wonder Woman as part of the Justice League helping Batman learn to be more of a team play as the moral, but doesn't pass Bechdel, and isn't racially diverse. But, at least Cyborg and Wonder Woman are included. He has Justice League sneakers and a shirt now, and it's ALL ONLY THE WHITE MEN. *sigh*
Apparently it's based off the narrative from Lego: Batman 2, which I need now.
Quentin has taken to calling the Lego: Batman stuff "Baby Batman" and the other things we're showing him now, like episodes of the TV series from the 60s (on youtube) "Daddy Batman." You know, for clarification.
Like with the penguin thing, we're mostly encouraging his love for a thing as well as making use of it. So, when we finally got him to agree to start using the potty, it was with the promise of Lego: Batman (and Justice League) undies.
Which is actually working, yay!
Drawback: if we have no available bat undies, there is no cooperation. At least at first.
Reason my son is pouting: we would not let him wear the same Bat undies two days in a row. :(
For the most part, though, it's working fine. Oh, he'll scream sometimes if we make him take off the play stethoscope he uses as an impromptu cape when he doesn't have one otherwise (I have no pictures of this yet, which is a major oversight). But we'll let him eat dinner wearing his Batman mask.
It's an exercise in fine motor skills. Yep, that's the ticket.
I got him to agree to swim lessons with a Batman rashguard and Batman towel (though we ended up backing off on that, as he's not quite ready and didn't have as much experience swimming going into the lessons, what with the ear issues.)
He still uses them in his wading pool, though.
Mostly, I'm just happy to see him so happy and engaged with characters. We already had the Fisher Price DC Super Friends Little People, so he started playing with them constantly. He sleeps with Batman and Robin. You can see Batman and Joker in the above pic. He's moved on to Teen Titans Go! once he realized that it was okay that this story wasn't about Batman. Robin's cool too (and the theme song makes him really happy.) He has Justice League sheets on his bed in a penguin room.
He's branched out to an appreciation for super heroes in general, with my gentle nudging. He has an Iron Man shirt now too, and I've gotten him a Wonder Woman one (and am working on him being willing to wear a girl on his shirt. Because he is 3, and this shit starts early.) His new favorite thing is watching me play Super Mario Bros, because clearly Super Mario is also a superhero. Right?
Even his sister is getting in on the action.
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/251966.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
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But penguins don't come with a narrative attached, you guys. So, welcome to Quentin's new obsession: Batman.
I think it started when I switched from playing Lego: Lord of the Rings to Lego Batman. Watching me play video games is one of Q's favorite forms of entertainment (which I encourage for a number of reasons--one of which is I want women gamers in the background of his life), and he really enjoyed watching Batman and his friends and villains. They are, after all, colorful and cartoonish.
When I got back from Italy at the beginning of June, Jay had bought Q a Batman shirt at Target; the kind that comes with a cape velcroed on. It was all downhill from there.
Q enjoys spinning in a department store mirror cage.
He had to wear the shirt at least once a week, at first. He'd wail when it was dirty. Eventually we got a second Batman shirt, courtesy kcobweb, but at first he wouldn't wear it because it didn't have a cape. Batman needs a cape, you guys!
Eventually we convinced him to wear it. Eventually, eventually, I attached velcro to it (and another one) so that all his Batman shirts can have capes.
At the same time (when I was in Italy) that Q got the new shirt, Jay bought him the Lego: Batman movie. And, man. Q watched this shit out of it for about two months. I think our peak was right when he got the stitches and I let him watch it 5 times in a row. IN A ROW. It's a good movie as far as these things go. Funny, smart, full of enjoyable references for parents (quotes and visual references to the 1978 Superman and 1989 Batman, forex.) Includes Cyborg and Wonder Woman as part of the Justice League helping Batman learn to be more of a team play as the moral, but doesn't pass Bechdel, and isn't racially diverse. But, at least Cyborg and Wonder Woman are included. He has Justice League sneakers and a shirt now, and it's ALL ONLY THE WHITE MEN. *sigh*
Apparently it's based off the narrative from Lego: Batman 2, which I need now.
Quentin has taken to calling the Lego: Batman stuff "Baby Batman" and the other things we're showing him now, like episodes of the TV series from the 60s (on youtube) "Daddy Batman." You know, for clarification.
Like with the penguin thing, we're mostly encouraging his love for a thing as well as making use of it. So, when we finally got him to agree to start using the potty, it was with the promise of Lego: Batman (and Justice League) undies.
Which is actually working, yay!
Drawback: if we have no available bat undies, there is no cooperation. At least at first.
Reason my son is pouting: we would not let him wear the same Bat undies two days in a row. :(
For the most part, though, it's working fine. Oh, he'll scream sometimes if we make him take off the play stethoscope he uses as an impromptu cape when he doesn't have one otherwise (I have no pictures of this yet, which is a major oversight). But we'll let him eat dinner wearing his Batman mask.
It's an exercise in fine motor skills. Yep, that's the ticket.
I got him to agree to swim lessons with a Batman rashguard and Batman towel (though we ended up backing off on that, as he's not quite ready and didn't have as much experience swimming going into the lessons, what with the ear issues.)
He still uses them in his wading pool, though.
Mostly, I'm just happy to see him so happy and engaged with characters. We already had the Fisher Price DC Super Friends Little People, so he started playing with them constantly. He sleeps with Batman and Robin. You can see Batman and Joker in the above pic. He's moved on to Teen Titans Go! once he realized that it was okay that this story wasn't about Batman. Robin's cool too (and the theme song makes him really happy.) He has Justice League sheets on his bed in a penguin room.
He's branched out to an appreciation for super heroes in general, with my gentle nudging. He has an Iron Man shirt now too, and I've gotten him a Wonder Woman one (and am working on him being willing to wear a girl on his shirt. Because he is 3, and this shit starts early.) His new favorite thing is watching me play Super Mario Bros, because clearly Super Mario is also a superhero. Right?
Even his sister is getting in on the action.
Also posted at http://kouredios.dreamwidth.org/251966.html ; feel free to comment there if you so choose: add comment/
comments.