Pretend Play Lover Gifts

"I'm getting a bit concerned. He's been 'pretend telemarketing' all day."

"Dad, there's nothing good on TV. We're bored.

"Can I borrow a knife, Mommy. . . Stevie and I are playing doctor, and I want to be a surgeon!"

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

Pirate

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Little doctor.

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

A Punch and Judy Professor is visited by Death as a puppet.

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

Humanities 101. I hear you're reading Greek plays in there. Yeah, it's a real Medea blitz!

Imagination

'It would never work out, Blackfire — our alignments are too different.'

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"I tested very high in playing."

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

That kid's all business.

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

'AQ popgun? I want a field model Browning pump chambered for the 3-inch magnum load.'

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'