Children have the most vivid imaginations. Take Jimmy for instance – he can create whatever he imagines out of whatever he finds around him. Last night he had one of Dad’s slippers, a transformer car and a piece from the bottle sterilizer. The transformer was stuffed in the toe of the shoe and the long piece of the bottle sterilizer was sticking out of the shoe horizontally, tucked between the transformer and the top of the shoe. I’ll give you three guesses to figure out what it was but I bet you won’t get it. I asked him what it was and he said it was a tow truck and the bottle sterilizer piece sticking out was a ladder. And I could SEE it! He’s brilliant. My little engineer. Then he told me he was worried about losing his job and that the house is dirty and we have to clean it. I’m not kidding. He said those three things to me. I don’t know where he comes up with this stuff. Now I’m wondering who he knows that’s worried about losing their job.
Lilly cracks me up sometimes when she obviously is imagining 2am is the middle of the day. Silly little girl.
We have a little potty chair that we’re not using and Jimmy and Joey carry the removable bowl around all the time and incorporate it in their play time. I have no idea what all they’re imagining it to be – it usually just aggravates me because that means they’ve gotten into the closet for the thousandth time and gotten it out again. Sunday evening Grannie and Grandpa gave Jimmy his birthday present and it was a pair of camo boots (which he’s barely taken off since). Later that evening he came out into the living room all excited with his overalls and boots and the potty seat bowl on his head. Before I could tell him, for the millionth time, to Go. Put. The. Potty. Seat. Up. He told me to look at his “gorra” (hat) and that he’s a “pardner” (cowboy). And I could SEE it!
I never figured out what this was supposed to be but it’s classic Jimmy. If there is a mess he’ll put it in order.