Saturday, January 28, 2012

Focus

I know children mimic the things they hear you say. I don't think I knew the kinds of things she'd say back to me though.
The Giants happen to be playing very well right about now and I have been following their games closely. The other day there was an important playoff game on and I wanted to watch it. The problem is that in our house the TV is not on very often and when it is, we're sitting down watching it. We don't have it on during meals or as a background. As King of the Household I decided that I wanted to have the game on during dinner. Mariana kept turning it off and telling me "no TV while we eat". Glad she's listening huh? During the meal I kept looking over her head as the TV is behind her seat at the table. She admonished me "Focus Daddy. Focus on eating". You little shit!
Mariana is showing a budding imagination of the hallucinatory bent. She can ramble on, mixing all the characters from her life together. Friends from school, characters from movies and books, neighbors, relatives- you name it, they can all get involved in the adventure. Sometimes she wakes out of a dream and tells us right away about the flying kitty litter box and sometimes it's just a long dinner monologue about Teddy and Farquad and how Seargent Murphy has to take them "into custody"- focus and eat child! It's like all this information is flowing into a well and it just swirls around and blends and keeps filling higher. Some things float to the surface. Some sink- but they're all in there waiting for their turn to surface. Does she have a great imagination? Is she nuts? or is she just 3 1/2 years old?

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