Over the last couple of years, I have wacthed my son's imagination develop. The first signs of an emerging imagination (try saying that 3 times fast) came when he pretended to talk to someone on the phone.
Once he was a little older, he started making up these stories in his head while he played. He would get out all of his trucks or race cars, for example, and then come up with some scenario in his head that he would play out.
Then yesterday, there was yet another development. He involved other people in this imaginitive play. Anthony and my son were up in our bedroom sweeping it. My daughter and I came up a bit later. I had decided it was a good time to change the sheets/blankets on the bed. The kids we quite interested in the whole process (I'm glad they find it interesting!).
When I was finished, they jumped up on the bed to test out the clean sheets. They were jumping around for a bit and having a good time. Then my son asked me to get up on the bed. Then he said to Anthony, "Are you coming daddy? You have to get on. We are going to sail away." Anthony climbed on the bed with all of us. Then my son picked up a pillow, pretnding it was the ships steering wheel, and sailed off into the deep blue see.
"Where are we going Captain?", I asked him.
"We are going to the movie place (read movie theatre)," he said.
"And what movie are we going to watch."
"A Veggietales movie." And with that we continued to sail away. At last we were done sailing, and figuring it wouldn't be very much fun to pretend to sit and watch a movie, he said, "Ok. We watched the Veggietales movie and now we are playing."
I don't know why, but the whole thing just made me smile. Even at age 3, when all the seemingly big milestones (smiling, crawling, walking, talking) have past you by, each day brings something new, something to be excited about, something to cherish.
Sincerely,
The-M-O-M
So special
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