The Acting Bug

Well it seems someone has caught the ACTING BUG at the house these days. Sullivan’s new movie of choice this week has been Disney’s TOY STORY and in usual Sullivan style he watches it an obscene amount of times each day. For those of you who’ve never seen the flick OR forget the movie Tom Hank’s plays a toy cowboy named Woody who numerous times throughout the story gets into some unfortunate situations. Well, at the end of the movie it seems our hero Woody has come to the end of his journey and is not able to reunite with his owner and in classic Hanks style throws a comical fit. Those of us who have seen Hanks in such movies as CAST AWAY, BIG, and THE MONEY PIT are familiar with this silly bit he does. So last night when we finished watching the movie for the THIRD time of the day Sullivan got up from the foof grabbed his cowboy hat and dropped to the ground saying “No, No,….No, No, No, No, No.” and at first I thought he was upset the movie was over and then I thought he was upset because we mentioned that it was time for Night Night and then as I watched him repeat the same drop and recite I realized he was re-enacting the Tom Hanks fit scene from the end of the movie. Well needless to say he re-enacted this scene about a hundred times last night….and then as we put him to bed we heard the scene played out another hundred or so times and then this morning when he woke up at 6am he acted it out another dozen times in his bed before he went back to his play room to watch the movie and then act the entire scene out in front of the mirrors once again. Now for the past couple of hours he has been back in the playroom acting and recreating scenes all by himself. And if Damon and I try to go back there he says “Bye Bye”. He wants to be all by himself today and has his tub of toy animals out and toy characters and is playing scenes with them. Is is a day of THEATRICS for sure 🙂
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It was pretty funny last night when I heard him and went back. He stopped and said “Bye, bye, Daddy. Bye, bye?” So I left and heard him say to himself, “Ok. Go, no-no.” Then he started up the scene again … “NO, no no nono no no …” and so on …