“Mummy, can I play with these?” I hear my youngest one say.
“Uh-huh,” I mumble back … not even looking up from my first cup of coffee to see what it was he was actually asking to play with.
In my defence, it was not even 8 a.m.
“Mummy, can I really?” he inquires again.
“Sure thing, son.”
This time my head was in my favourite online news provider.
Happy to hear the sounds of my littlest boy playing away with swooshing sound effects et al, I pour myself another cup of coffee and settle back to my morning reads. Life is good.
“But, mummy?”
“Yes,” I mumble back, engrossed in what I’m reading.
“Mummy, I want to use them as swords,” the imaginative one says to me. “Is that really okay?”
My youngest son has such a fantastic imagination where he loves to role play. On any day, he can appear to me as a pirate or a knight or a sorcerer or a veterinarian or a soldier, etc. I never really know who or what he is going to be, but it was obvious at this time he was going to be a swashbuckler of some sort.
This time, I glance up as I say “of course, baby. Just so long as no one gets hurt, you can use your imagination any way you waaaaaaaaaaaaa ….. nt.”
My voice trails off as the realisation of what he’s been playing with hits me. How the heck do I explain this one?
And, then I can’t stop laughing at my little man. He’s standing in front of me armed with two tampons and one fierce look of determination as he gets ready for battle.
In my defence, it was not even 8 a.m.
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Brilliant! Such imagination & determination! What did you say? I wonder if it will become a game he plays with his friends! :0
Ha,ha, one of the memories I always torture Ian with is the one of him playing with my tampons at three years of age. He thought they were mice!
That is awesome. You should have snapped some shots for when he’s giving you trouble as a teenager.
hahhaa!!! love it!
How funny and what great imagination xx
LOL-that’ll teach you trying to doze off.
Is he now scarred for life?
LOL I was trying to wake up!