Superheroes

Imagine, for a moment, you work in a shop that sells DVDs, computers, consoles, games... lots of expensive things...
Now imagine some insane woman wheels in a pushchair, complete with chocolate covered infant (Mummy should have waited until after shopping trip was over before giving Pixie the "bikkit").
That would be daunting enough for anyone... but add a hyper looking child whizzing in circles and it was definitely a facepalm moment.

Having shown Lily the shelf of children's DVDs though, she settled down and inspected all the covers before picking out three colourful ones. Noticing it was 4 for £10 Mummy said she could have another.
Lily saw Spiderman 1 and 2, and began telling Mummy about them (it was from this same store she bought 1+2 last time). We couldnt see the 3rd one, so she dutifully went to ask for help.
Cue one very proud Mummy watching her walk up to the counter and asking very quietly. (then a little louder)

The man at the desk should get an award. He came and scanned the shelves, where no Spiderman 3 existed, much to Lily's disappointment. He pulled out instead a Marvel box set and tried to show her. Lily dropped to the floor protesting, it wasn't Him. She continued to protest as the man knelt on the floor next to her and started to tell her about them.
He told her their names, and their powers, but she couldnt hear him, she had turned her back, getting more and more upset. By this point Mummy would have given up, but not The Man (as Lily now calls him). He continued to calmly speak about how the same person that wrote about Spiderman also wrote about all these people. That they were Spiderman's friends.

That got Lily's attention. Over the next 10 minutes he re-told her their names and powers, by the end she was not only facing him, but leaning in, entranced, looking at pictures of one of his friends hugging Spiderman on his phone. Then he told us about an event where people dress up as heroes, and she might get to meet them.

Lily's very excited about that. All the way to the park she spoke about how she's going to meet Spiderman's friends after her birthday. How she wants to dress like a hero too so she can be his friend.
All around the park she was shouting for her new superhero friends to come play.. Mummy had to explain that they're probably off saving the world.

She's spoken about it a lot today too, and I honestly cannot wait. It's nice to see her so looking forward to something!

Lily enjoyed Fantastic 4 (she got sad when no one wanted to be The Things friend, "I'll be you fend! I luff you!"), and X-Men (she wanted to dress up like storm so she can make it snow).

In the meantime, Lily says all the outfits Mummy has found on the internet won't work because they "dont have real powers". She wants to go and see "The Man" again because he knows Spiderman and "maybe him can gib me real powers". So we're going back on Tuesday, we'll blow up that bridge when we get to it,  and who knows, maybe they'll have Spiderman 3 by then.