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Sep 1 2008

Imagination

Category: Kids & Growing Up

Lucie likes to pretend she's Angelina Ballerina, the ballet dancing mouse. This involves costume changes -- thanks to Uncle Mark who gave her an Angelina Ballerina costume for her birthday -- and lots of leaping around trying to pirouette while I clap and yell, "Bravo!" in a Russian voice like Miss Lilly,, the ballet teacher on the Angelina Ballerina cartoon.

Sometimes she likes to pretend she's Nathan and wear his baseball cap or t-shirt. This game is well known at our local post office. We'll walk in and the postmaster will ask her, "Who's this? Are you Lucie or Nathan today?" Sometimes he'll just greet her with a big, "Hello Nathan!" Lucie will give him a dirty look and tell him, "Hmmph. I'm not Nathan, I'm Lucie!

The other day at the grocery store, she kept telling me I was Paul. She'd say, "Hi Daddy! What are you doing Daddy?"

I replied, "I'm not Daddy."

"But why?" she asked.

"Because I'm not big and stinky like your dad," I replied.