"OK, guys, we are going to build a boat. First we should...we need...Papa, you're in charge of building the boat. It should be wood, with a sail, and a motor, two motors, no ten hundred motors so we can go really really fast. Mama, you get a map so we know where to go. Just like Paddle we should go to the sea, and to Sanibel and then Sweden and Michigan. Grandma, you bring the food. We'll have a kitchen on the boat with plates and cups and a microwave. Papa, don't forget to build the kitchen. Grampa, what should you be in charge of? You pack our stuff, ok? We will need beds and books and clothes and toys and sleeping bags. And Wylie can come too, but he's not in charge of anything. He's a baby...."
Finn's thinking and talking and planning abilities have taken a recent shift into overdrive. Lately he is full of ideas and plans and, if you'll banter with him, he'll sort of riff endlessly about these plans.
One evening at dinner with G and G, he had up literally writing out plans for the above boat trip. The pictures below are from another dinner-planning-session. I can't quite remember what he was planning. Some of his recent plans include:
-taking a camping trip, the most important aspect of which is the marshmellows
-becoming a spy when he is as big as Papa so he can get rid of all the bad guys
-holding a party/play date for all of his friends and our friends and the house will be very, very crowded--sometimes such a party has a "Polar Express" theme and of course we will only serve hot chocolate
-an escape with Grandma and Grampa, to a hotel with a pool, no parents, and no rules
"
No comments:
Post a Comment