Hand Guys

Hand guys have been in our lives for almost two years now.  I'm not sure where they came from or what inspired them in our children, but they are obviously long term imaginary friends of my children.

What are hand guys?  They are simply the boys, and now Leah, making their hands talk.  The boys have many different hand guys and have named them and our list-maker, Christopher, types up lists of everyone's hand guys' names.  It's pretty entertaining, but we've had to ban hand guys from the dinner table several times because they distract the kids from eating. 

I remember two Christmases ago when my sister came down from Michigan to visit and we drove downtown and hung out there for a few hours.  As we were driving home, my sister commented about how the two older boys had started talking at the house before we left, talked the whole drive into downtown San Antonio, the whole time we spent walking around downtown, and the whole drive home.  Most of their talking was either them making their hand guys talk, or them talking about their handguys.

They do have great imaginations, and like I said in the last post, they do not have short attention spans!  

Not saying that it's absolutely correlated, but they also do not own a video game system. 

Hey, I'm just sayin'.  Maybe it's a coincidence.

Leah has recently started making her hand into a hand guy (hand gal?) and says its name is GooGooGaaGaa or Doodlebops, which are actually her brothers' hand guys names.  We were somewhere a week or so ago where one of her two year old friends was and I saw her do the hand guy motion to her little friend.  He had no idea what she was doing but it was so cute to watch her act like her brothers while she's so young.