Little People

We had some of my girlfriend’s little cousins over recently. By “little”, I mean an 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl. She’s been telling them they could have a sleepover for several years, but not until they learned to follow instructions a bit better! We spent the early afternoon at the Extreme Air Park, the late afternoon at Science World and in the evening (after an amazing day!) we came back to our apartment.

Our original plan was to sit down and play some Carcassonne for the evening, watch a movie and then pass out. We got distracted – it turns out that my apartment is a paradise for children…I have toys and gadgets and games all over the place. >.<

The boy saw my models and immediately started playing with them and having them fight and all that. I saw an opportunity for more…

I pulled out a my bag of bloodletter pieces, opened it up over my desk and asked him if he wanted to build something. He picked the pieces, and I glued them together (after a careful talk about the dangers of super glue…).

It was hard going – even though we were both having fun, ours is not a hobby for the short of attention span. In the end, we had that game of Carcassonne, and we had built a 4 armed bloodletter. It reminded me that kids as young as him get into this hobby, and stay with it for decades. It also reminded me that no matter how many rules you layer on top of it, we’re all just a bunch of kids playing with toy soldiers, and loving the shit out of every minute of it!