Kids have real good imaginations, and for them, its real. As we look back in time, it brings a smile.
My Oldest daughter, Launie, would not go to bed until someone would go with her, and make sure there were no tigers in her room, or in the closet, or under her bed. A night light was required for awhile.
My youngest daughter, Jodie, would not take a bath unless someone was in the bathroom with her, because she thought sharks could come out of the foscet and into the bathtub. It often ended up with her sister working on her school homework, in the bathroom, while she had her bath. Good thing her sister Pauli, loved her enough to do it.
We had a exhaust fan in the bathroom that after a while it finely gave up and stopped working. A few years later our home received roof damage from a savere hail storm, the roof had to be replaced. Quick thought, lets replace the bathroom fan while the roof was being replaced. When my husband checked out the fan from on top of the house, he discovered that the fan had been filled with candy bar wrappers! The fan blades could not turn any longer, and the little motor burn it self out..... Latter in a family gathering, (if parents keep quiet you can get answers to alot of questions.) The kids would talk together, I found out that my son, David, would put his candy wrapperd down a pipe on top of the house when he was up there. This is the same young son who thought it made him a big person to walk through the front screen door and through the hedge in front of the door, braking the plant in that area. And to swing out on the ropes of the flagpole, until the flagpole broke in half. And after makeing a homemade spear, he tried it out on our large Doeboy pool, cutting out the bottom of the entire liner. This was all about the same time in life. We still love him, but there was never a dull moment with him growing up. So if you have boys, hang on to your hats.
For many years our family had an aquarium. About the time my first son was born, I bought a redtail shark. This shark became the ruler of the tank, and all the other fish knew it. We had him for about eleven years. This shark had his own house which was a piece of black slate leaning against the glass of the tank. After a few years, I bought five baby clown loaches. As anyone who has fish knows, clown loaches snuggle. These baby loaches followed eachother around the tank, until they found the redtail shark, and his house. They snuggled under him like a hen and her chicks, much to his surprise. They would follow him around the tank, like a mother duck and her ducklings. As hard as he would try he could not shake the baby fish off him, they had made him their mother.. After a few days, you could see him give up. And then he started to protect them from all the other fish, he would go to battle against the agressive fish if they even came close to the clown loaches. Even as adult fish they were still his to protect.
One night when I went to fill a baby bottle, I found him nose up, tail down, floating all around the tank, fast asleep...
One time on vacation, we had stoped for a rest, and a snack. My kids were in the back seat of the car. My oldest reached to unlock the door, the lock was like a heavy plastic, covered with aluminum, we discovered that it was pealing off. As Launie reached to pull up the lock she cut her little finger on the aluminum. We were all surprised to see the cut. When her dad ask how she did it, she said "like this", and showed him how...cutting another finger.
