perspective.

I wish that I could remember how my mind worked at the age of three. In the case of my son, there are times where I think that he is so intuitive and on point ... other times I wonder what in the world is going through his little head.

Over the weekend, we were watching Disney's The Lion King and we got to the part where Simba's dad is killed in a stampede. A heartbroken little Simba crawls under his dad's paw to get in one last cuddle.  While my eyes tear up, I hear Nate start giggling and he says "this part is my favorite". My first thought: is this how a child displays sociopathic tendencies?! Naturally, I paused the movie to ask why, to which Nate responded that he loved that Simba was so sweet and gave his dad a hug. Of course, this kiddo does not really understand what death is. After all, you see Mufasa a few more times in the clouds, so why would he associate this scene with loss at his age?

One of Nate's favorite books is Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?, which we read religiously. I'll admit that we have three different copies and the end is different in each. One version has a recap of all of the animals where the children say that there are all of the animals and the teacher looking at them. After about a million readings, Nate came out with "all of those animals are gonna eat the teach-ah!"

 

One thing that I'm waiting to catch up with me, is that Nate recently found out that one of his preschool teachers is pregnant. After hearing that she has a baby in her tummy, he then went on to declare that all of his teachers had babies in their tummies...and despite my best efforts I cannot seem to sway him otherwise. I can't wait to have that awkward conversation! 

Another day, another interesting story!