Super Hero Drama

In case any of you are wondering if Spiderman still makes his occassional visits, maybe this will answer your question. I never imagined that the Spiderman phase would last so long. However, after a few nights of bad dreams about bad guys and green goblin, we had to sit the boys down and explain to them what was real and what was not. We had to explain that Green Goblin and the Joker were just actors, and inevidably, so is Spiderman. That kind of took the magic and thrill out of the super heros for Cbugs. I feel sad. The whole super hero thing has fizzled out since then. It's like the end of an era. It is like finding out that your children don't believe in Santa any more. In fact, the whole Santa thing did come up in this little talk we had about reality. I had to say, "Well, Santa is as real as you want him to be." Needless to say I changed the sublect really fast! Skater has kind of a super hero identity crisis going on. He has been exposed to so many super heros, that he doesn't know which is which. In this picture, he is wearing a Batman cape, an Optimus Prime helmit, and even though you can't see it, he is wearing a spider man mask too! Oh, and he was holding a Darth Vader light saber right before I took the picture! And of course, he is in nothing else but a diaper. The picture of the boys in with the boxes is their version of Ironman. I refused to buy them costumes, so they made their own!