An imagination is a very handy thing

This is page one of Toms birthday sketch book.

Driving to swimming the other day we were having our usual post school debrief - a mixture of everyone talking at once, primary school jokes, and mum questions (what did you do today?) which elicit the response ‘I dunno’. Tom (who has just turned 7 as we all know) pipes up with the statement: ‘an imagination is a very handy thing’. Yes, I agree, and Jimmy (almost 9) asks him why, at which point Moo starts a demarcation dispute – everyone should know by now it’s the three year old who gets to ask that particular question.

Tom’s response to Jimmy while I was still trying to articulate just why an imagination is handy: ‘if you had an imagination you’d know’. Ouch.

I know it is sad when people write about the clever /funny things their kids say (yawn) but when Tom was about three he had a toilet training accident which Matt had the misfortune to discover. Matt is not the most tolerant ‘cleaner upper’ of poo and had a few words to say about it…and which point Tom looked up at him and said ‘mistakes is how you learn things’ ……oh its painful when they use your words against you.

I am going to announce the winner tomorrow.