Puppy Boy

“I mentioned on Sarabelle's "Skeery Wolf-Bare" thread how Newergirl has just started learning how to pretend. Her favorite (although simple) pretend game right now is "puppy boy." She crawls around and makes me say, "Come here puppy boy" and then pet her head. It is really funny. I was wondering if any of you other parents have funny, cute stories about your little ones pretending.”

“My son, who is four, constantly pretends that the Red Power Ranger is with him, playing with him all the time.

He has also pretended (and still does) that he has a grandfather that takes him places and teaches him how to do things. This leads to questions from friends and family about how often my father sees him, which is not a lot in reality. We have to explain that my son is talking about his pretend grand-dad.

It could be worse, he could still be saying that he had an older brother who died...”

“My oldest is pretty good about pretending that her school work is all done.”

“Bit, that is too funny. When my little brother was about 4 he used to pretend he had a girlfriend named Julie and that Julie's dad had all kinds of cool stuff that he got to use (planes, race cars, motorcycles, etc.).”

“aawww, adorable!

one of our monkeys, Schmoopy, likes to pretend that she's driving when we're in the car. and they all pretend they like beer when we drink it, just to fit in. except Silly, she's a total drunk. oh, and this other cute thing...they're all captivated by TV shows about Africa. if we talk while one is on, they turn around and go "sshhh!" really seriously. HA!”

“Well, I thought it was funny myself, but my wife got tired of my son's teachers asking how long ago it was that our other son died. Walt would get this very serious face and say, "I had an olduh bruddah, but he died...."

The grandfather thing is only a little annoying, lol...”

“Yeah, Bit, the dead bro. thing is a little upsetting.

Lyra, your monkeys are very talented.”

“yeah, whatever. all that pretending stuff is a big waste of time, if you ask me.”

“We think it had something to do with having to put down one of our dogs last year. He transferred the death to an imaginary older brother, for what reason we're not sure yet.”

“i used to tell my lil brother that i sold our other brother to the chinese...and that the eggrolls in the freezer might just be Jared”

“LOL Opie!”

“I called him "rat puppy".

I wold say "come over heer rat puppy" and pertend like I wold bite off his rat puppy hed.”

“And now you date him. See what a nice dog he became Sarabelle.”

“Newergirl's other fav. pretend game is "choo-choo train." She tells me she sees one when we both know she didn't. Then she giggles and says, "I funny, Mama."


Okay, who is sick of me gushing about my child. (Sorry!)”

“when my daughter was only 4. she had a pretend friend named Michael. She got it from the Peter Pan movie. She would play with him all day long. Well i had a baby boy and we needed a name for him but it had to start with the letter M.
The only name i could come up with that I liked was Michael.
She didnt think it was funny when i came home from the hospital with the real life Michael.
We got a kick out of it. She now thinks its sweet that she helped name her little brother even though she wants to kill him sometimes. LOL
He gave her, her nick name. Its Samantha but he could not say it so it came out cee. I made it a little longer. So its Cecee. She still uses it to this day.”

“I had an imaginary friend when I was little. Charlie the ping pong ball (we had a table in the basement). Charlie was invisible to everyone except me (obviously!) and he was always getting stepped on. Poor guy.

Anyway, they say kids with imaginary friends are highly intelligent. But no one knows what happend with me. :)”

“The Little Weasel pretends to use the litterbox so I'll give her a raisin.


I pretend that I talk to these weird people from all-over-the-place through a box upstairs on my desk.”