When Trying to Encourage Creativity Goes Awry....

   Summer time in Arizona can lead to kids becoming couch potato, video game playing zombies. So to encourage some creativity and get my kids to work on their writing skills, I suggested that my kids write their own story books and we could send them in to one of the companies online that will print them out into an actual book like they get from the library.

    My daughter was on board with the idea but my son wasn't so thrilled. Since he is a huge fan of Pokemon, I suggested he wrote a story about him being a Pokemon Trainer.

 "No, we'll get sued for copyright infringement" chimed my husband....

"You could call it 'Mikey-mon'" I suggested to my son.

"No, too close. We'd still get sued for the likeness" my husband chimed again...

"Alright then. What about Mikey-ball" I suggested as I know they call the things Poke-balls in the show that the little creatures are kept in.

That was my mistake.... The next few minutes following were full of laughter, tears from laughter and my oldest snorting from laughter even though she was really just laughing at my husband doing the different voices verses actually understanding the jokes as my husband went off in his own dialog of how the story would go in the characters' voices...

"Haha you only have one ball. You're no match for my three!...."

"The professor let me touch his balls..."

"Brock would be like, 'how come I can't get any girls with my balls?'..."

"Misty would say 'Its because you have Medapods'..."

"Oh Misty, you're just jealous because you have Magikarp...."

"Gary would say 'I mastered the Squirtle that comes out of my ball'...."







I am beginning to worry about the sanity of my family after this lunch conversation.....




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