three year old role play - what's yours like?

[beasmum]

Just wondering. My son is other people (and animals!) all day long! I find it fascinating and wondered whether your three year olds do this? How much of the day do they pretend play like this, and who do they pretend to be?

For MONTHS when he was 3 Ds insisted that I talk like the narrator in the Miffy video. All day. Every day.

ds1 (just 3) is often in role (when not doing a jigsaw puzzle). He particularly likes to be a funny lady (children's party entertainer) a nursery carer or a fairy. He and dp often act out all of the Billy Goats Gruff together.

Every lunchtime, DS says goodbye to me when I start making lunch, sits down at the table, comes back into the kitchen and says 'hello cafe lady.' I have to call him 'cafe boy' and tell him what Fireman Sam, Penny, Bob the Builder, Wendy, Postman Pat etc. ate when they called in to the cafe earlier. He tells me his mummy is 'wewwy well' and having lunch on her own at home.
This sounds weirder written down than it seems in real life ...

My ds2 is 2.4yrs but for the past 6months he has been role playing and it depends on his mood as to what he does. Sometimes he will pretend to go shopping (aka Me), he will get his coat on, grab his bag, give us all a kiss then get on his bike. After leaving the room he comes back in grabs something from the settee, say thanx and leave again. Then he comes 'home' and shows us what he had bought. If he is pretending to be his dad he will either grab his builders hat and go to work or grab his golf clubs and tell me hes going to golf and the pub. if hes working you can hear him 'fixing' his toys and if hes at golf you can hear him whacking the balls (hes actually quite good). It is really sweet to watch and he has such an imagination you cant help laughing at some of the things he comes out with.

Also ds2 doesnt need to pretend to be superman/spiderman, in his eyes he already is them. Since he could stand up he has climbed out of his cot and up the ladder on ds1's bed and the amount of times he has launched himself head first off of things such as settees, beds etc... If he starts role playing them he will probably try to jump off the shed!!