Well could you? I know I can’t ……………I try but I just can’t.
However my amazing, awesome little man can! J has the most amazing memory EVER!
Since arriving back in the UK J has discovered Moshi Monsters. We went to play at a friend’s house, her youngest daughter, H, is a couple of years younger than J but they have always had some kind of special connection……..And I hope my friend will agree it really is quite special watching them play together 
Anyhow, H had a small collection of Moshi Monsters which they played happily with…………..and so the interest began, yes interest it’s not quite an obsession yet, Mario still holds the crown there. It becomes an obsession when every other conversation, every other game and 90% of all artwork is that particular topic and at the moment Mario is his favourite topic of conversation, almost all artwork is a Mario character or a level/world on a Mario game and every other game that we play becomes a mario world/level or story.
J took around 2 weeks to memorize every Mario character in his games, one of his favourite things to read was the instruction booklet that came with his Wii games, (yes he has more than 1 and he’s sooooo good at playing them).
He took around a week to memorize every Sonic character. In fact we have used Sonic to help him make a connection between Australia and the UK. How? Well Knuckles is an Echidna and so is Australian, Sonic is a Hedgehog and so is English……..see the connection? But what has amazed me even more is his ability to store all of that info and then memorize the name of each and every Moshi Monster in such a short period of time!
Despite J talking about Mario every day and night, (he’s woken up on more than one occasion during the night to tell me something very important about Mario!), I’ve not been able to remember the names of all the Mario characters, let alone Sonic, Moshi Monsters and all the other things he knows……….don’t get me started on animal and space facts!
So, I wondering how I can make his interests and obsessions more educational. I mean if he can memorize all of the things he can, imagine how he could excel if for example Mario became a scientist……………….
J you amaze me everyday little man. You’re pretty awesome and Mummy’s so proud of you…………………..You’re going places kiddo!
He is fab, and yes watching him and H play nearly brought a tear to my eye yesterday, I wasn’t sure how they would be after 2 years of not seeing each other but there is definitely that bond between them and they have just picked up where they left off – much like us really!!! He definitely has the brain and memory to do big things, and I’ll be there with you every step of the way……….I wonder if we will ever share grandchildren!!!! Lol xxx
oooh now there’s a thought sharing grandchildren!!! LOL xxxxx
Jo do you ever worry about Js special interests? C became obsessed with a game called Zombies v Plants. He played it on the itouch and pc. He drew it. Talked about it. Acted it out. Untill it started to take over all his other interests. He wouldn’t even swim over the summer (which he loves) but just walk through the pool pretending to be a zombie. In the end we deleted the game. I still feel a bit bad about it.
Dearna I do worry sometimes, he goes to bed talking about Mario, wakes up talking about Mario and plays Mario (with whatever he’s playing with at the time) each and every day. He’s even told his TA about Mario, it does drive us a little mad and at times worries us that his interest is taking over everything he does. However we’ve started using his interests to our advantage……..We wrote Mario words, working on his handwriting, Mario models with playdough, draw our own Mario levels (working on his imagination skills), I wrote the Mario story to encourage his reading skills and so on. His favourite characters are always the “baddies”…….when his special interest (pre Mario) was Thomas, his favourite character was Diesel, when it was Power Rangers it was the bad guys, now it’s Bowser, Dr Eggman and The Glumps (Moshi Monsters)……his psychologist told us that maybe he relates to them because they are always fighting the good guys and maybe that’s how he sees himself…he’s told so many times not to do this and that and maybe he feels like a bad guy fighting everyone else??? xx
Love it Jo…he is so clever. Wait till I get him onto Pokemon for you…LOL
Love you LOADS. xxx
Speaking of Mario- I know you’ve been busy (!) but has J seen the Mario pics and story to make into a book by my Mr(then)11?
Hi yes thankyou J loved it, I have sent you an email. Tell Mr he did a great job and we send him a huge thankyou
Eek- I’d been wondering. So sorry, we missed it. Junkmail may have eaten it
No worries
J really loved it, I think his words were “Oh WOW where did he get a picture of Bowser’s castle from?” or something along those lines LOL
Huge thanks to Mr again
My kids are obsessed with Moshi Monsters……UGH!
….and there’s so many of them isn’t there? J gets so annoyed with me when I don’t know their names, (which is quite often). xxx