Several months ago, Mitch brought home the Disney "Hercules" little golden book from Half Price Books and the girls started reading it. When shopping for Christmas, we found the movie and thought that the girls would like it.
Like it would be an understatement.
Almost every night since Christmas, the girls have watched parts of "Hercules" while dinner is being made. They don't even ask to watch anything else.
Mitch fueled the obsession when he found Hercules action figures on eBay and bought them. They arrived yesterday, and the girls have been playing with them nearly nonstop. Imaginary Mount Olympus and Underworld areas are popping up all over the living room, most recently in the form of Legos. Some of the things overheard in our living room recently:
- After telling Gizmo she couldn't have the underworld on the side table, she decided to have it be on top of the chair, because, "that other underworld is out of power".
- When Hercules saved Meg from the underworld, in my Hercules voice I said, "Now I know where I belong - with you Meg, on Earth." Gizmo said, "Yeah, so let's go pick some blueberries!"
- Gonzo consistently yelled out "ZEUUUUSSSS" and "HERC" and "Ha-deez" while holding the toys. Another favorite is "Peg-a-dus".
- After a while, the two boxes that were to be the homes of all of the figures became Mount Olympus and the Underworld. Gizmo would then set up the figurines on the corresponding boxes. When someone fell off Mount Olympus (because really, more people want to be there than the Underworld anyways), she would yell, "Oops, everyone into the rowboat to rescue Zeus!", and then she would pile all of the figures into the box they were mailed in and push the box until they could "rescue" Zeus.
I could tell you more about it, but it's cuter when they do.
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