5 Things that Caroline finds normal (that other kids probably don’t)
Posted By Kathleen David on June 7, 2007
I have been thinking about Caroline’s formative years and how there are things different in her life than that of her peers. There are a number of things that she finds perfectly normal and for her that is the way that life. Here are 5 off the top of my head
1) Mommy and Daddy work out of the house so she always has both of us around for the most part. She assumed this was norm but she is starting to realize that this is not a regular situation because of her friend whose mommy and daddy leave the house to go to work. I am glad that she has had this situation because she has a close relationship to both of us.
2)Having Oobie eyes (aka Puppet Eye Balls) all over the house is normal. She finds them around and plays with them. Then puts them down and I find them later or the cats turn them into cat toys. She is pretty good with them too.
3)She knows what Daleks, Cybermen, and the TARDIS is. She also understands that the Doctor changes faces. She runs around the house with my sonic screwdriver “fixing” things. Also she was our Doctor Who (Doctor Cindy Lou Who) in our Grinch/Dr. Who cross-over sketch. She loves it when we sit down as a family to watch the new episodes of Doctor Who.
4) Going to a hotel and staying a couple of days for a convention is normal for her. She actually expects that we are going to do that every weekend. She knows how to behave at a convention and she is learning not to run on stage when Daddy is up there talking. She also loves being in the Masquerade. Now when she was younger we did use her as a warm body in our sketches. Now she just wants to be in them because for her that is a normal thing to do at certain conventions. She also knows her way around the Hunt Valley Inn.
5) Puppets are supposes to take over the house. She loves to play with the puppets I build. Puppetry is just a part of her life and she doesn’t understand when another kids act scared of them. She loves the Muppets and the Sesame Street Monsters along with the movie “Nightmare before Christmas”. She and I sat down and watched a couple of Captain Scarlet episodes the other day and I explained marionettes to her and showed her some of my books on the subject. She spent the rest of the afternoon pouring over those books and pointing out her favorites to me.
I am grateful for things that interest Caroline.
LOL! That’s great! The other day my husband was explaining to a coworker that our 4-year-old son knows all the characters on Doctor Who, and gets excited about going to the comic book store with mommy.
I think many kids who grow up in fandom are like that. My last pregnancy was very high risk, and we chose not to drive 6 hours to Shoreleave, choosing 3 days in closer Boston instead. The entire time, the other kids whined that THIS wasn’t their pool, THIS wasn’t their hotel, and what did we mean there wasn’t a costume contest? They could not imagine there could be a hotel without a convention. It was a miserable 3 days, and we haven’t missed a Shoreleave again.
What do you mean not normal? It’s normal for me! Hooray for Hunt Valley!
You may know about these anyway, but just in case…
The Martha Jones character has an official myspace page, which is fun:
http://blog.myspace.com/marthajonesuk
And David Tennant was interviewed on the Parkinson talk show over here a few weeks back. Tennant’s always a great interview, and this can be seen in two sections at:
http://david-tennant.com/temp/id88.html
My 3 year old, Brenden, also loves Dr. Who. For his birthday we got him the Tom Baker Years key to time box set. His current fav story arc is the pirate planet. The episode that got him hooked was the 2005 episode Dalek. Shortly after that we went to Borders and got Genesis of the Daleks for us all to enjoy.