CARS

Lightning & Guido, originally uploaded by skweerell.

We took Ro to see Cars on it's opening weekend. He was entranced. He loved Lightning McQueen but he seems to have loved Guido, Luigi's forklift sidekick, even more. He's always talking about Guido and wanting to fix someone's flat tires. He draws pictures of cars with flat tires and pretends to be Guido fixing them up.

He even made Guido and Lightning out of Fimo. He's amazingly good with three dimensional stuff. He made many of the other cars too but as we were running low on Fimo, the cars got progressively smaller and more difficult to identify. He's also made two sets of the cars out of playdough,but they're all pastel as we only have Easter playdough on hand at the moment.

Strangely, Ro has no interest in seeing the movie again. I offered him the opportunity to see it again a few weeks later and he said, "I only need to see it once, Mommy." That seems to be true. His memory of the movie is really good even more than a month later. He also manages to work lines from the movie into everyday life. Obscure lines from the movie. It's kind of funny odd. It's clear it's on his mind a lot.

Another movie side effect, is that Ro enjoys pointing out rusty cars everywhere we go. It's suddenly like having a bit of rust is a badge of honor.