Aaron's house

In the past several months, Aaron's imagination and creativity have really taken off in ways they never have before. He has always played whatever the others are playing, but leading the way is a very new thing. By playing whatever the others are playing, I mean if they dress up, he does too, but then he just kind of walks around and/or does whatever they tell him. Until recently he's never said things like "hey let's play..." and he's really been in his own world alongside them while they play. He gets most of his stories from backyardigan episodes or things his siblings have done in the past, but it's still a big thing for him. Just the fact that he's even playing with siblings instead of doing his own thing while they play near him is a big change.

Along these lines, he has recently become very focused on having homes for his plastic animals and stuffed animals. The past week or so has found him working hard to make a house out of a box. The ideas and design for this are completely his own.

This morning, he asked me to make this video and put it on my blog. He suggested that I tell you "some words about it. That is so they can read the words and decide if they think it sounds interesting or if they want to watch it."

I asked what "words" I should write and here's what he had to say...

"This is a movie that I made for people to watch and know about it. It's pretty interesting so far. I'm going to make some more parts of it. And I made the windows, the five windows and the two doors. And I'm going to finish the rest. Which this movie shows the parts I already have made, but I'm probably going to make another one [movie] because I haven't finished the house and I made the roof and the chimney and the couch and the ladder and the two rugs. I hope that you will like it. This movie is really interesting, how 'bout you watch it."