John had been wanting a Nintendo DS for quite some time before his Mimi made all those dreams come true this past Christmas. He was almost 8 years old and we had built up all the responsibility that goes with owning a small, expensive electronic item as something that he would have to "earn" by being mature enough for the task. So, he was delighted to no end when he opened his great gift a few months ago.
Thankfully, he was a doll and shared his DS with his little sister--she liked to play some of the games and he was fine to let her play. Well, then she started wanting to play a lot. And we started looking at our calendar and seeing all the long car trips we had coming up and realized what pleasant travelers we could have in the backseat of our mini-van if someway, somehow, somewhere, we could have one DS for each big kid.
Hmmmm.....
You know, Maddy is awfully mature. I mean, really--girls just are. They are. Seriously--she could handle the DS. She's good about keeping up with stuff. Uh huh. She's ready.
Next stop: Gamestop.
Yes, our 5 year old daughter BOUGHT HER OWN (pink, of course) Nintendo DS a few weeks ago and she thinks she is hot stuff with it!
It's hard to be the starter child!
Behavior-wise, Will gets away with murder compared to what we used to crack down hard on John about....at this rate, he'll be playing MarioKart in no time!
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Just tell her to keep it off of the bathroom sink...Jonah left his on the sink last week and Maddie Rae decided to "wash" it. Sad, tears, wailing...from me and from him. Now we're back to fighting over Jack's ds.
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