You know, you can be the leftiest parent in the world. You can raise your kid on organics and gluten free foods. You can screen all their reading material, you can even, if you are crazy enough, keep them from watching TV. And of course, it goes without saying that you would never. ever but them a toy gun. But none of that matters because one day they are just going to go outside and NATURE will have MADE them a gun!
"Look Dad!" the Little Dude shouted with delight, "I found a RAY GUN!"
I did not pose him at all for this. The stance all him.
Though I did ask him to turn profile for this shot. It feels very Charlie's Angels to me. That'd be my influence, I'm sure.
And he was more than willing to provide all his own sound effects.
It was certainly NOT my idea to shoot the lion.
Hubs tells me that when they found this in the yard, and then when the Little Dude identified it as a ray gun, he proceeded to sing "it was a baby boy/ so we gave him a toy/ it was a ray gun/ and it was 1984...." And yes, I will admit that he learned that from us. We are White Stripes fans, and that Hardest Button to Button is such a catchy little number. Sometimes Hubs will just hammer out the ridiculously simple drum beat on the kitchen table and I'll sing it. "We were livin' in a old house/ our mom gave birth and we were checkin' it out...." Its a song about homebirth, right? How much more wholesome can you get? Basically its either that or Kumbaya.
Whether you think of it as a gun or not, its quite a pretty piece of nature. Very sculptural. We'll probably keep it around for awhile, and you know how it is with little kids, it'll probably be imagined into a lot of different things, and scenarios. And hopefully not all of them involve the untimely demise of a lion.
Oh, also I heard him later on in the day repeating over and over to himself "Ronald Raygun, Ronald Raygun..." When he noticed me noticing him he said "That's what the stick is named mom."
I blame Hubs.
No point blaming anyone....our son is 28 now, and he was brought up in a 'weapons free zone'....all friends had to check their guns at the door.....no sugar,regulated TV, lots of books, wholesome food, music, art, and sports....country life with homegrown meat and veggies and wild berries....and you guessed it...the guns came with nature....but just for a while....he is now a peace full anti gun kinda young man, even thou he played with natures gun.....and when he was at his friends houses sometimes the real things...he tells me now lol
Posted by: linda | 01/17/2013 at 09:30 AM
Too funny!!!! the Ronald Raygun part slays me!!! Having said that just look at the blog below and you can see the influence for the stance, Luke Skywalker has that going on :) its funny when you look at things so often that you don't realise really what they are anymore...like for example I could sing every word of Les Mis and totally didn't realise til I was sitting in the theatre that it is NOT a feel-good pick me up story, but rather tragic beyond belief.... context is everything I think...regardless of that tangent, Little Dude really has it going on with his RayGun :)
Posted by: Cyn | 01/18/2013 at 09:00 AM