More superheroes

I don’t think Small is the only small boy fixated on superheroes, but he does take it to extremes rather. Instead of trying to move him off I’ve been rather following his interest recently, so we followed up yesterday’s filmfest with a viewing of Batman And Robin this afternoon. I would say that it actually didn’t hold their attention as well as X-Men did yesterday, and also that in some ways the comic book violence (ie less scary, so gets a lower parental guidance rating) is more dangerous, as it could lead children to believe that you can recover from just about anything. Small is getting into recognising and discussing the actors and special effects now, and Big is beginning to not let stuff get to her in the way she used to. She still screwed her eyes up a few times and refused to watch 😉

They both talk all the way through though!

After the film they both took to designing their own new superheroes. Small has got the idea rather better than Big – his superhero could move the world, while hers (pinkclad of course 😉 ) did interesting things with her cape. Ah well.

This evening after a belated bath, I got to carry on the superhero theme by reading from Spiderman 3 Movie Annual 2008. There’s a comic strip version of the first film in it, and it took ages to read the first 20 pages. Thankfully he accepted putting a bookmark in with a view to reading the rest of it another night.

Tomorrow I need to crack on with sorting things out at current work, as well as making more of a move on the whole rental concept. I think I might have an early night in order to focus my energies better. Or something. I probably had more to write today, but firefox crashed in the middle of this post. I only lost a line, or so I thought at the time, but once I’d put that back in, it appeared I’d lost the thread as well.