Ben, now that he is that little bit older and able to turn thoughts over in his head and remember stuff, has started developing some weird habits and obsessions and doing some generally quite oddball stuff. I suppose it's all to do with a burgeoning imagination which I think is fantastic in principle. Just weird, that's all.
Take last night for instance.
He was going to go to bed in our bed from the off because I was still feeling poorly and couldn't be bothered with the faff of settling him in his bed. We walked past his bedroom door and he says "night night spider". Now, he already has a habit of saying hiya to every spider he sees, so in theory saying night-night isn't that far removed. But it did weird me out a little bit because I was sure there weren't any spiders visible, and I was pretty certain there weren't any in his room either.
The mystery was solved when I went in to fetch his pillow. There, tucked up in bed (and no doubt given a night-night kiss as well) was the spider he made at nursery this week.
I can understand tucking teddy up in bed, and even the giant elephant to some extent, but the spider? At least he's being fair and giving everything a chance... Even his drumkit was put to bed yesterday, a blue blanket draped over the top. Sadly though drumkit didn't actually get a chance to go to sleep as Ben just bash it through the blanket.
This morning Ben woke up and decided that spider needed breakfast. So insistent was he that he dragged Steve out of bed because he couldn't quite manage to open his bedroom door to get to the spider. At least I managed to dissuade him that spider needed mummy-milk...
Who knows where his imagination is going to take us in the coming years.
1 comment:
What a gorgeous oddball that boy is!
I kept tarantulas as a kid and thought they were quite cuddly (one was called fluffy) but am quite scared of house spiders now so not sure I'd want ben's spider in my bed!
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