Imagination
Posted By pamelamyers on March 10, 2013
One of the very coolest things about having a child this age is witnessing such an amazing imagination. The things that come out of Sam’s mouth now alternate between being hysterically funny to incredibly thought provoking to just silly. I love watching her build things or describe things to me. Lately, she has been fascinated by shadows. Looking for them, making them, describing them, everything about them. The other morning she saw a shadow in our bedroom (that I never did see because it was so insanely early to be awake my eyes wouldn’t open). She was very excited and told me it looked like it had a hat on, like a cowboy. I didn’t even know she knew what a cowboy was, much less what one looked like.
Today, we were outside playing and she was dragging around this mini rake that we use to clean up flower beds and such. She started out by pushing it all around our yard and told me she was mowing the lawn. She then progressed to running wildly down the sidewalk, giggling the whole time, while telling me that she was mowing the pavement. On the way back to our house (for the third or fourth time) she held the rake into the air and told me it was her kite. Every few pavement blocks she would stop and tell me we were at the park where you can fly kites. Each time she stopped she would say, “We are at a new park now” and I’d ask her what was at the new park. Her answers varied from a stream, a bush, to “just some grass”.
It is a shame that as we get older we tend to see the world in such boring terms. We seem to lose the ability to stop and slow down and see interesting things, to make up stories, to be creative. It comes so naturally as a child to suspend reality and just become something else because you feel like it. To see things that are not there, or to dream up stories about the things that are. Having a child and experiencing the world with them, the way they see it, is like heading down memory lane to your own childhood. And it’s a pretty great trip.
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