I’m running around trying to get some holiday things done, just like everyone else right now, and so I haven’t had time to finish my Thanksgiving Round-Up post with party pictures and such-hopefully I can get to that this weekend?? Who knows…
Anyway, in the meantime, a conversation from the ride to school this morning:
Liam: “Hey, Mom and Kiri, I have a really fun pretend idea!”
Me: “What’s a ‘pretend idea’?”
Liam: “Oh, you know, like when you imagine something you could do if you could do anything you imagine? There’s a word for it…ffffaaa…ffffaaa..”
Me (after repeating that first sentence several times for my own interpretative benefit): “Hm, you mean ‘fantasy’?”
Liam: “Yes, that’s the word! I have a really fun and cool pretend fantasy idea! Do you want to hear it?”
Kieran: “Fantsy, fantsy, pantsy, fantsy-pantsy….”
Liam: “Mommy? Do you want to hear it? Kieran, stop it!!”
Kieran: :”Fantsy-pantsy, underpants…..under..fantsy…”
Liam:”Mommy? Make him stop! He’s totally ruining my pretend fantasy idea!”
Me: “Kieran, please stop talk…”
Kieran (with great 2-year-old pride): “Fantsy-pantsy underpantsy, fantsy-pantsy underpantsy!”
Liam: “Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!”
Me: “Boys! Freeze! One at a time-Liam, what’s your idea?”
Liam: “What if everything you touched except what you want to keep turned into chocolate?”
Me: “Ooohhh, sounds good, could I turn my steering wheel into chocolate?”
Liam : “Yes, but only after you drop me off at school. I want to play with my friends this morning.”
Kieran: “No!”
Liam: “No, what?”
Kieran: “No chocolate! Only lollipops! Me say lollipops!
Liam: “No! Chocolate only! No lollipops. It’s my pretend fantasy idea and I say chocolate!”
Kieran: “Waahhhh! Mommy! Liam say no lollipops in his fantsy-underpantsy!”
Me: “Well, how about you both have your own ideas?”
Liam: “Well, whatever, Mommy. I just want to turn most of the world into chocolate.”
Me: “I think that sounds delicious, sweetie.”
Kieran: “Turn the whole Earth…lollipops!
Liam: “Well, guys, the Earth is pretty big….how about we turn part of it into chocolate, part of it into lollipops, and the rest can be a nice place for all the people and animals to live together and eat treats?”
Kiri: “Mmmmmmm, treats!”
Me: “Mmmmmm, treats!”
Liam: “Mmmmmmm, treats!”
If only real-world conflicts could be solved so easily!
Yes, that would be nice – both the endless treats and the conflict resolution!
And, ironically, I was reminded tonight at my girls’ school’s Library Night of a book from my youth, “The Chocolate Touch,” when a friend of theirs chose it off the shelf. Liam might enjoy that one (though I don’t remember a whole lot about it, so you might want to preview first)
Sounds like a place I’d love to visit!