At four, Connor has really gotten into pretend play. Sometimes it's limited in scope (as in he repeats himself often or resorts to mumbling at times when he's not sure what to say), but it's still there. It's very cute to watch, and at times, very funny, too.
Today he was home during developmental therapy with Miss April. We were all in the floor playing. Miss April was helping Xander with the wooden puzzles and Sawyer was lining up his linking rings. Connor picked up the new toy cell phone (that Grandma and Grandpa actually gave to brothers a few days ago) and was pretending to talk on it.
"Hello? Hello?" he asks himself. Then there's assorted giggling and laughing and incoherent words that are either too fast or too low to be understood.
Miss April asks him who he's talking to.
"It's Daddy," he says.
She wants to know what Daddy's doing.
"He's workin'!" Connor replies. "He's fixin' a broken house and doin' laundry!"
Um, excuse us? The first two parts are all very accurate. Daddy is usually at work, and he does build (and fix broken) houses. But that last part, well, that's a bit unusual. Not to say that Daddy doesn't do the occasional load of laundry - because he does - but it was just kind of out of left field.
"He's doing what?" April and I both ask together.
"Buildin' a house and doin' laundry!" he says again, a bit exasperated and looking at us as though we're the ones not making any sense.
It takes Mommy a minute, but I finally figure it out. This morning, Daddy did, indeed, have a washer and dryer in the back of his truck as he went off to work. He was helping a business partner move them into a rental unit near our subdivision.
So, there you have it. Daddy was building a house, and while he was at it, he was going to do some laundry, too. And, clearly, Mommy and Miss April need pay more attention because Connor's getting tired of repeating himself.
