Ideas

Dylan,

We have a new pastime, mostly enjoyed while we're driving. You'll make an observation and ask a question about it, like: "Why is that sidewalk closed over there?"

I'll ask you what you think, or offer up a possible explanation of my own. Then you say "I have an idea! Maybe a rocketship took off from right there and the sidewalk got burned up in the fire! Do you have any other ideas, Dad?"

"Maybe it got crushed by an asteroid from Space", I'll offer.

"I have an idea. Maybe it turned into marshmallow and got toasted by the fire from a rocketship and then eaten up", you add.

Back and forth we go, neither of us making any attempt to constrain ourselves to plausibility.

I've been very impressed with how long you can keep this up, continuing to ask if I have any other ideas and making up your own very creative submissions (not always featuring rocketships), though sometimes when you're pressed you just rehash the last thing I said, in nearly identical language.

It is a lot of fun to hear you being so creatively engaging. I don't know how much of it is just you having fun or how much is an exploration of genuine possibilities, but you are definitely enjoying yourself either way.


Dad