Yup. Lately my DS3 is heavy into pretending to be Spiderman/Transformers/Ninja Turtles/other assorted superheroes. (And no, we watch NONE of the shows or movies! He got it all through osmosis or books.)
Actually, I didn't really think DS3 was gifted until he hit this phase, though knowledgeable friends thought he was. DS3 definitely has never been as academically obvious about it as DS6 has always been (early reading, math, book-writing, drawing, intense interests, etc.). DS3 was always very verbal and very social/emotionally precocious. But it was the imaginative stuff that drove the point home for me.
My favorite is when he wears a red cape, a bicycle helmet, red winter gloves, sunglasses, and his yellow rain boots. I think that makes him Spiderman. He shoots "web" made of a broken strand of Mardi Gras beads. It's HILARIOUS!
He wants me to play along, but he doesn't expect me to dress up, so I usually go with it. I generally get to be Catwoman, too, and what woman in her right mind would argue against being Catwoman?! LOL!
Oh, and he was the first one in our family to use those long, rectangular 12-pack soda boxes for Transformer arms. Now DS6 is painting them and using them for his arms for his Halloween costume...as a Transformer that actually transforms from robot to truck. Thanks, DS3! Your creativity is paying off!
Perhaps you'll find a use for your DS3's imagination, too, Jenafur. We're all about the practicality 'round here!
