Recently Joselyn (5 yrs.old) has taken to.... let's say..... enhancing her day to day activities. I wouldn't exactly call it lying but more like her own personal fantasies that she believes happen to her. For example, today when she came home from school I was asking her about her day. I asked her what job she had in the classroom this week. She told me that it is her job to feed the bunny this week. I said that must be fun and I asked her what she fed him. She said that she got to feed him carrots and that she gets to hold him like a baby and feed him a bottle. Mind you this bunny is NOT a baby and it is NOT small! But she told me this with such a straight face that I am intrigued to know if she really does this with the bunny. So then I asked her if she ever gets to let the bunny out of the cage to hop around. She immediately tells me yes and that sometimes the bunny hops around and he gets up on the ceiling. Now I know that everyone knows that bunny's can't hop on the ceiling, but the way she says it with the facial expression and absloutely no pause to come up with the story makes me start thinking if a bunny could in fact hop up on the ceiling. So I ask her how it gets up on the ceiling and she tells me that it just hops really high and that then it hangs for a while and then she catches it. I ask her what it hangs on and she tells me the beehive in the classroom. I start racking my brain trying to remember the beehive in the classroom. Then she says after she caught it she put it down and it started hopping around in the paper tunnels that she made for it. I said gosh he's a big bunny to hop around in paper tunnels! That is amazing! She looks at me and I look at her and in that moment unspoken words pass between us and she knows I know that didn't happen. We both smiled and started laughing and it was really funny. BUT my point is that she comes up with stories like this ALL the time! She doesn't even pause after my questions to think of a fantastical scenario it just flows out of her with an expression that makes me question if it in fact did really happen. I think I need to sign her up for some acting classes.
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She definitely has a natural talent. Is there such a thing as children acting classes? Oh, and you asked what TV shows I keep up on: Dancing with the Stars (lame I know but I'm curious to see how Marie Osmond does), Heroes, The Biggest Loser, Survivor, Ugly Betty, Back to You(the new one with Kelsey Grammer), Lost, Amazing Race, CSI, ER, 24. Some of them aren't on yet though until January.
That is HILARIOUS! I was laughing out loud at her story she was telling! Tyler is REALLY good at lying to me. But in his case he is actually lying. Like when I ask if he washed his hands in the bathroom, and he looks right at my eyes and says "yes, I did" with the most self-assured look on his face, and for a long time I believed him. Then one day I asked to feel his hands to see of they were clean and he refused to let me. That's when I knew I had a serious liar on my hands. TROUBLE!
I think it's great that she has such a great imagination! To the point of making the unbelievable blievable. Jadyn will look at me and say, "Now Mom, this didn't happen but I'm going to say it, okay?" We've had a few boy who cried wolf instances at our house. I'm glad you can write her stories down!
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