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Aug242009

If someone wrote a movie based on how I play with my son. Part 2: Spy movie.

Spy 1, wielding intricate weapon constructed out of many tiny, differently colored parts, confronts Spy 2, who is hunched over what appears to be a computer.

Spy 1: So. We meet again.

Spy 2: What? Oh. Yep.

Spy 1: Heh heh heh.

Spy 2: Hang on.

Spy 1: No, you're scared. I have a laser blaster poking you right in your head.

Spy 2: No, right, I'm terrified. I am! I'm just…uh…

Spy 1: HEY.

Spy 2: No, I'm trying to crack the code. The code that will, uh, destroy you!

Spy 1: Oh, no!

Spy 2: Oh yes! Hang on… I just have to hit "send"…

Spy 1: Are you sending … is that email?

Spy 2: Uh, yes, but I am sending it to my cohorts, who are coming to get you! Just as soon as I check something else on this, uh, death computer.

Spy 1: That's not a death computer. There's no such thing as a death computer.

He laser blasts Spy 2 in the skull.

Spy 1: I just laser blasted you right in the skull.

Spy 2: And yet I live! Hang on. I am trying to crack the, um, the other code.

Spy 1 slams the computer closed.

Spy 2: HEY.

Spy 1: Now I will torture you for hours! No help is coming!

Spy 2, sighing: I will find my cell phone and I will send the Text of Doom.

Spy 1: Too late. I've hidden your phone. IN MY LEGO BOX.

Spy 2: Oh, damn it.

Roll credits

Reader Comments (31)

Hiding your cell phone in the lego box? Diabolical!The kid is crafty and he grows weary of your tricks! Muauahahahahahaha!

August 24, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterGrizzly Kitteh
Haha, I love it!
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLou
Action figures, come to life ...
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterElizabeth_K
You should reenact these scripts and post them on UTube.
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCindy
These scripts are darn hilarious! You rock!
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMeredith Weis
Truly nefarious, that Spy 1!
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEl Gray
I've decided that it's adorable ... whether spy #1 is a child ... or a fiance. or a dog who has to pee outside. Or a neighbor who rings the doorbell right when I'm in the middle of something. See? Adorable.
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterE
I truly wonder, at times, if somehow I have Henry's clone living in my house ... 5 years old ... so much of what you post sounds just like mine! :)
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlou
Is part three the Historical Biography of a Tyrannical Dictator? It is at my house.
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterGreta
Clearly you were not able to crack the code. Maybe you could invent your own cone of silence? Invisibility cape? Good luck!
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMookeiMom
I do this with my dog (no kids, obviously) but she doesn't know we're playing. Yet I play anyway.

But I just can't figure out which spy is which.... ;-)
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdie Frau
You're so funny, I wish you wrote more often!
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKate
Hilarious. Simply hilarious.

I agree that you should put them on YouTube!

http://www.fabbrunette.com
August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMargarita
This is extremely funny. My 17-month-old recently learned how to shut my laptop when I'm writing on it. I'm desperately trying to wean myself off of it during the day, so I can be totally "present," but it's hard!

August 25, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTrina
Well, you've got to hand it to spy 1 for his hiding techniques. Poor spy 2 -- survives a laser blast to the head only to be beaten by the lego box.
August 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterZozo's Mom
hilarious!
August 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlisa
The "I'm hitting send" aspect sounds very very familiar. My son is getting wise to to my tricky ways however....
August 26, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermolly
LOL OMG that was funny as hell. Sounds a lot like me and my girls!!
August 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJennifer Suarez
My daughter went to see her grandparents for a few weeks, and came back demanding attention all of the time.
August 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRenee
I'm so glad to hear that other mother's do this too. Phew!
August 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKatrina
This is so funny!! I love both parts. I can not wait until my baby starts playing pretend.
August 28, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRose
I have a true to life friend named Laurie Doorn (don't go trying to find her in Michigan, ok?). I am supposed to see her next month and am wondering if there are special powers I might ask her about?
August 28, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLiam's Grandma
Dear Alice, If you ever find yourself in Calgary, and you're bored, and you have Henry with you, please come to play with me and my six-year-old Kid, who is a Club Penguin secret agent and lives in a dream world of waddling, fishy spies. If you don't have Henry with you, come over and we'll get to know one another over a bottle or two of gin. I believe we understand one another.

Thanks for the laffs!
August 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLorraine
This is too funny. Playing pretend is fun but you guys do a professional job!Cheers,Anita
August 29, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnita Tedaldi
Bossy's movie, playing with her kids, would be slapstick comedy. Which is why she rarely played with her kids, which is very Crack Mom After-School Special.
August 30, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBOSSY

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