The Weekender: My 2 year old believes in Dragons.

I think I'm tired of Sell it Saturday.  I don't to do nearly enough online shopping to keep it up! 

Instead I think I will discuss...I dunno, anything, on the weekend.  :)

SO:

My 2 year old believes in Dragons.  He's at that age where he can make believe, he's really good at it for a 2 year old.  We have fake ice cream cones, tea, and he gives status reports as a soldier all the time!  But he also is still at an age where he just takes what we say for granted.  I love that.  We read books.  Tons an tons and tons of books every week.  Some of them are about bunnies, or cows, or Martin Luther King Jr, or an Elephant Detective, or Dragons.  We talk about them so they MUST be real.

Yesterday we were at the Rolling Thunders Easter Egg Hunt.  We go every year, the kids LOVE the biker bunny.  :)  I had all four when I went in but only 2 when I left, the bigger guys got sent to my moms for the day since we were headed there for dinner anyway.  So only me, the Toddler an the Baby in the van...it was QUIET!

So I asked the little guy if he'd like a story, momma just isn't use to the quiet.  I told him about a little boy who was curious and asked his mom so many questions and then told him her answers.  :)  After that I asked him to tell ME a story. 

It was so sweet.  He told me about animals.  About the rooster that cockadoodle dos, the cow that moos, the pig that oinks, the dog that barks, and the dragon that rawrrrrrs.  Yes, right with all the farm animals my boy puts the Dragons.  It struck me that theres no way he could know that Dragons AREN'T real yet.  Afterall, we read about tons of animals he hasn't seen in real life yet so why would the dragon be different?

This just underlines the trust and dependence kids have on their parents.  Mommy has told him about dragons, so they MUST exist.  Its sweet, cute, and awe-inspiring all at the same time. 

Eventually he will learn that dragons are fairy tales, mommy's can be wrong, and that the world is a colder, less interesting place.  But for NOW my 2 year old believes in Dragons.