Saturday, April 19, 2008

Poo poo

My youngest son has two imaginary friends. Our other two children did not have any imaginary friends, but not my son - he has them. Their names are "Poo poo" and "Pee pee." Yes, you heard correctly - "Poo poo" and "Pee pee." When I come home, I ask him how his day was and my youngest will share something like this, "I punched Poo poo in the face." Out of curiosity, I have to ask, "Why did you punch him in the face?" He would respond, "because he pushed me" or "we were arguing about who would play Battlefront first." I am thinking that you don't want to mess my son. Yet, he never blames anything on "Poo poo" or "Pee pee." When there is a mess to clean up and asked who made it, he simply replies with, "I don't know." Sounds like he is copying his brother and sister. Why he has two imaginary friends, I don't know. Why he has decided to name them after bodily waste, again I have no idea. Did we emphasize potty training too much? These imaginary friends may be because he enjoys making us laugh. He enjoys life, running laps in the house, wrestling with his brother, getting angry at video games, laughing at everything, and talking about Poo poo and Pee pee. I still have to wonder why. I have to chock it up as my boy wants to be in relationship and will do just about anything, including imaging friends. It is all good. We will share the details of these events later in our journey with his future wife. God has wired us to be in relationship with him and others even if that means imaginary friends.

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