Someone asked me the other day if Joel asks "Why?" a lot. I thought for a moment and said, "No, not really, he's more of a hypothetical kid." These are the phrases that start most of his conversations:
What would happen if...?
Could it...?
Would you/I/it ______ if...?
If I....?
We had one of these conversations before he went to bed last night. He is sort of obsessed with plugging things into outlets and he had found a plug-in air freshener without the insert in my closet. He carried it around for quite awhile and wanted to take it to bed with him. I knew he'd try to plug it in after I left and I'm just not completely wild about him playing with outlets while alone in his room (call me crazy!) so I told him I needed it back. Here's what followed:
J: What could happen if I plugged it into the wall?
M: It could get too hot or hurt you.
J: If it got too hot could it start a fire?!
M: Maybe.
J: If it started a fire could it burn me and could I die and go to heaven? (suddenly this silly conversation turned a little bit deeper :)
M: Yes.
J: Then you wouldn't be able to see me anymore?
M: No, not until I go to heaven.
J: Then you should die and I should die together so we can both go to heaven at the same time.
M: (uh, what do you say to that?) It would be nice if we could be together, wouldn't it?
J: And Brody should die. And Jesse and Daddy should die, too. So we could all be together. (I know what he means!!)
And on a lighter note...this afternoon Joel woke up from his nap and found me and Brody in the playroom. He ran over to Brody to give him a kiss and said, "Mommy, when Brody gets as big as you is he going to get married?"
So interesting how his little mind works. I know that we have never really talked about how kids grow up and usually get married, or how when people die, they go to heaven (other than in the context of Jesus at Easter).
It's interesting this new dynamic that we are entering into as parents, it keeps me on my toes!
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