Every day it seems for the past few months, Veg and I have been telling animal stories.... Some of them we make together are actually pretty good, I wish I'd write them down, but they always happen while I'm driving and therefore that would be a bad thing if I was writing them... So alas, I forget them as soon as they are told.
Basically I start with "Once upon a time in a far away........." and he picks the type of place.... then I say "lived a...."
and he picks the type of animal that would live in that place.
"Once upon a time in a far away jungle lived a monkey....." for example... then he helps me make words through the story.
Then I make up a story about that animal off the top of my head.... Usually with a good moral in mind. Like if he's not sleeping well, then our Monkey is having trouble sleeping.
We've also talked about an Adopted bunny.....a duck that was bigger then all the other ducks.... A Lion that couldn't read yet... Ants that help each other no matter what.... Etc. ..... Lately they have turned to "building stories".... Yes - Talking buildings.... but thats another post all together...
So anyway, after making up stories like this for several months, I'm starting to get burned out and my imagination is pretty much shot.... Last week he asked for another story and I told him that I was sorry, but I lost my Imagination.... So he found it in his shoe and gave it back to me.... Yup, didn't get out of that one!!!
Today I was more tired then normal and just didn't feel like doing stories. So we get in the car and I explained that I didn't want to do stories tonight and he says "Why Mom, have you lost your mind again?"
Well Yes, but that too is another post!!! *smile*
So he digs my mind out of his shoe and my imagination out of his hat.... When I said that I was just too tired for stories today, he found some energy drink in his finger to help me wake up....
In the end, he got another story.... I mean how can you pass up all that hard work... He found my Mind, my Imagination and whipped up some energy drink all within 5 minutes...
Now thats an imagination... But would heeeee tell a story? NOPE! Had to be me.... Can't complain though... He could be asking for much worse things then made up stories. *smile* Not to mention he found my lost mind. Can't beat that!