Hot Enough For Ya?

Yesterday morning, sitting in Sprite's classroom, I passed the time chatting with her teachers while Sprite had the place to herself, moving around the shelves and pulling toys at random.

She passed the area where baby dolls of various colors and sizes were arranged and took them out one by one. She lined them up on the floor near me and patted them on the back with enthusiastic thumps as she said "nite-nite" to each one of them. Pretty typical Sprite behavior. It was what she did next that floored me.

She brought each baby doll from its resting position on the floor to the nearby oven in the play kitchen and opened the oven door, shoving them into the unit and closing the door immediately after.

"Sprite, what are you doing?" one of the teachers asked.

"Hot", Sprite answered, as if this explained everything.

The teachers looked at me. I looked at them. We were all thinking the same thing. Should we worry?

Sprite went about her task of opening the oven door to shove the baby dolls in one by one, making sure to close the door, at one point, kicking it up with her foot. (I looked a little guilty over this as I do the same thing with the oven door and dishwasher door all the time. I'll admit, she got that from me.) (But the oven and doll cooking? Look elsewhere!)

I think I'm going to have to work hard to make my surprise look natural when Sprite comes home from school one day in the future wondering why she's being cast as the wicked witch in Hanzel and Gretel.

At least she can draw her character from past experiences..

Comments

[Kirsten]

LOL I was totally wondering if you'd been reading her Hanzel and Gretel before I read the last line.
Meggers is going through a phase where all her teddy bears are sick or dead (very disturbing) and the other night she said she took all daddy's blood. I think it came from school 'cause we definitely don't let her watch anything like that. The only other thing I can think of is we lost our dog last year to old age, but I never actually said the word dead?
We try not to give it too much attention, rather redirect and say things like Beary bears not dead he's just eaten to many sweets and needs a rest...lol Can't wait till she passes this phase though.

Take Care
Kirst

[Lisa]

Oh my gosh. I was laughing outloud (though softly as my child is asleep) at this!

If you start finding boxes of Barbie and Ken heads under her bed later on -- I would seek professional help. Otherwise I would say she is just exploring opening and closing doors...and roasting dolls. Ahem.

[Sprite's Keeper]

You know, maybe I should just go all the way and teach her the evil laugh too. "Mwa ha ha ha!"