When Two Year Olds Dream
It was a crazy busy week this week. I was at a conference in Boston for two days and then in Boston again on Friday. Bianca did way more their her fair share of taking care of the boys. This meant that she got a lot of time with them and in this extended time she heard a flight of fancy from Ethan Beethan.
On Friday night she was talking with Ethan and he told her:
"Mommy, we go to gazebo. Me and Callum. We go see humpback whales."
Let me unpack that for you. First, the gazebo is reference to one of our favorite parks--Coggshall. There is a gazebo on Mirror Lake and around it are a wide variety of animals--fish, snakes, and turtles of all sorts. Ethan positively LOVES the turtles, so going to the gazebo means that Ethan is going to see some wild life.
The second sentence is a bit easier--Callum is one of his friends at school. He has three other buddies--Christopher, Luca, and Alex, but right now Callum is the one in his best buddy circle. Ethan and Luca have been positively angry with each other for all of the sort of offenses you would imagine two year olds would be angry with each other for--toy theft, yelling, nothing more than random mood swings. Right now, Callum is it.
The third sentence references Ethan's new favorite book/animal. Last week, it was Balgegle, Balgegle (Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle) but right now he is a whale phase. And his favorite picture in the whale book is of a humpback whale.
So when you apply all of those things you get Ethan's dream play date circa June 2017--a trip to Coggshall with Callum to see humpback whales. Unfortunately Mirror Lake is probably no more than ten feet deep, so, well, that's not going to happen. But it is fun to dream, right?
On Friday night she was talking with Ethan and he told her:
"Mommy, we go to gazebo. Me and Callum. We go see humpback whales."
Let me unpack that for you. First, the gazebo is reference to one of our favorite parks--Coggshall. There is a gazebo on Mirror Lake and around it are a wide variety of animals--fish, snakes, and turtles of all sorts. Ethan positively LOVES the turtles, so going to the gazebo means that Ethan is going to see some wild life.
The second sentence is a bit easier--Callum is one of his friends at school. He has three other buddies--Christopher, Luca, and Alex, but right now Callum is the one in his best buddy circle. Ethan and Luca have been positively angry with each other for all of the sort of offenses you would imagine two year olds would be angry with each other for--toy theft, yelling, nothing more than random mood swings. Right now, Callum is it.
The third sentence references Ethan's new favorite book/animal. Last week, it was Balgegle, Balgegle (Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle) but right now he is a whale phase. And his favorite picture in the whale book is of a humpback whale.
So when you apply all of those things you get Ethan's dream play date circa June 2017--a trip to Coggshall with Callum to see humpback whales. Unfortunately Mirror Lake is probably no more than ten feet deep, so, well, that's not going to happen. But it is fun to dream, right?