The eyes have it
Apr 30th, 2008 | By Chuck | Category: Papa Prattle
Recently our neighbor shared a conversation she had with her son after he had finished playing in the sandbox with our three year old daughter.
It seems he was a bit concerned when my daughter complained about the ants that were eating her eyes. He had taken a good look in her eyes and couldn’t find any ants.
His mother explained that our girl must have been pretending.
The boy reportedly paused, looked to the ground and then back to his mother and asked, “Why would she pretend that?”
“I don’t know” she said, “I just don’t know.”
Welcome to our world. Living with a three year old with an incredibly active imagination means just about every story has a gray area.
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Wickedly adorable!
Reminds me of the time I asked my then 4 year old son what he wanted to be when he grew up and he looked me right in the eyes and said…”a caterpillar, daddy.”
Unfortunately, he is almost 7 and I think he still wants to be one.
Hi Dan. Nice use of the word wickedly - that is kinda what I thought. A caterpillar? I can see that, with the whole butterfly change thing. Thanks for stopping by.
Must be a three-year-old thing. Michael’s been telling us for days now about his eyes are all burned out. They are continually a source of interesting conversational randomness, aren’t they?
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Yes. Yes they are.
Yikes!! Eye-eating ants??? What part of Michigan did you say you live in, Chuck?? We don’t have any eye-eating ants where I live!!
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We don’t have any eye eating ants here either, but I’m willing to bet that five minutes with my little girl and she’d have you believing the opposite. she’s crazy convincing that way.
I love the creativity! Maybe she will be a great writer one day.
Its funny you mention that. I think I’m grooming her to be a writer. Her imagination really is fantastic and I feed into it 100%. Every time we play outside there is a conversation involving flight or traveling through the savanna’s. Awesome stuff.
Ha! The things they dream up are so funny, aren’t they? My son likes to pretend he’s flying airplanes EVERYWHERE.
Hi Momo. They sure are. I laugh at them everyday. Too bad I’m too lazy to record more of them here.
I am crying over here.. my son had a scratch on his leg and he said that he was eaten by a shark.. where they get this stuff from is beyond me.. but it keeps me in stitches!!
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That’s my Girl!!!
Her imagination reminds me of the commerical with the little girl playing in the bathtub pretending to be a mermaid!!!
I think that girl is a little coo coo……..I wonder if it has anything to do with the influence of her dad? We all know that guy is nuts……..and I love him for it!
I can’t wait to see/hear some of the stuff that Davey comes up with. It’s always my favorite thing!!