When I Say “He’s Four”..

When I talk about Maymo, sometimes I just say, “He’s Four” because that, really, sums up his actions, reactions and personality. Conversations can be surreal (at best) or totally incoherent (and not due to his speech issues) and “reality” is something I’m not always sure he’s grasping.

He’s not weird or crazy.. I mean, he’s four in the truest sense of the word.

Every night for the past while, Coffee and I have started re-laughing about something that happened a few months ago that TOTALLY sums up “he’s four” for us… and so I must share.

Maymo had hunkered down on the sofa to watch “Muppets from Space” which he hadn’t seen before and thus he was pretty excited.

After watching for a bit, I left the room to do something else.

Shortly after that, he shouted, “MOM! SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THE MOVIE!” so I came back into the room to see absolutely nothing wrong.

Me: What’s wrong? It looks okay to me.

Maymo: It’s not the puppets anymore!

Me: Yes it is. Look! (pointing to screen)

Maymo: No. It’s the NEWS. Where did the movie go?

Me: Umm.. no, that’s the movie.

Maymo: NO. IT’S NOT THE MOVIE ANYMORE.

Me: (looking closely at the screen and grinning) Yes, May, it’s the movie. I am positive. Do you see the big muppet bear in the back of the ‘news room’ there? That’s how I know it’s still the movie.

Maymo: No. It’s the news.

Me: Honey, really, it’s a muppet. There are no bears on the news. This is part of the movie.

Maymo: Okay. When will the news be over and the movie back?

Me: Uhh.. okay… well, you just watch for a while and I’m SURE the movie will come back.

Now, seriously, the BIG muppet on the screen? The TALKING bear in the background? Is that not a pretty big-sized give away that, perhaps, it’s not REALLY the news?

Apparently not when you’re four years old.