You have take a recent interest in the book series Goosebumps and pretty much anything else scary and involving monsters or ghosts of some kind. I wasn't sure you were quite ready for chapter books, but you adore having me read them to you. We have watched the 2015 Goosebumps movie as well as the 1995 television episodes. Even when your father and I watched Stranger Things, you impatiently waited for glimpses of the monster.Your imagination has been ignited!
You "write" the names of all the monsters from the books and movies you can think of.
In one scene, a teen boy with silver fillings jumps on a werewolf's back and bites his shoulder to send him running away, and your are positive you can use this strategy to win any fight with any monster. You tell me in detail how you will fight them and scare them off.
You write and illustrate your own monster books.
Your carry your books--both the R.L. Stine versions and your own handmade ones--to school to show your friends and teachers.
You act out monster scenes with your friends at school. One day when I dropped you off, I heard your friend ask, "Sophie P., do you want to be the wicked witch?"
You ask me regularly if I believe in monsters; I tell you I believe in ghosts but not monsters. You don't care for this, and spent at least a week trying to convince me that I DO believe in monsters because you are actually a vampire and I know and love you already. Here is a link to a clip of us discussing the blood sucking bit:
https://youtu.be/trz5YKZtDPA
Some people think it's odd or undesirable for a 4 year-old girl to be so enraptured by such things, but I love seeing your excitement and I feed it every chance I get. How can it be bad for you to bring a book to me multiple times a day, begging me to read another chapter or two? I don't care what the topic is.
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