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Mommy, I'm...

Clownfish has countless sentences with those two words. Mommy, I'm a baby. Mommy, I'm a puppy named Scruffy, and you're not allergic. Mommy, I'm Lightning McQueen and I'm fast.

He imagines he is a variety of animals, characters, and objects and expects me to interact with him accordingly. A brief list of alter egos:

• Dinosaur, usually an ankylosaurus, an allosaurus, or a stegoceras
• R2D2
• The "good" Anakin Skywalker
• Darth Vader & Darth Maul & Darth Sidius & Darth Brooks & Any Other Darth
• Yoda as a Padawan
• A shark
• Snowball (a kitten)
• A friendly dolphin
• An unfriendly orca
• A cookie
• Bumblebee, a Transformer

No, he has never seen Star Wars or Transformers movies. His Mommy thinks he is too young. He was freaked out when we rented Madagascar. Yet he has learned quite enough of the Star Wars and Transformer universes to engage in some credible dialogue, so I tolerate that his Papa has taught him a lot about it.

Besides, in Star Wars mode, I usually get to play C3PO which is pretty easy as it involves a silly walk and talking very formally and British-like. Also, I occasionally get to play someone who gets rescued from something invisible and dangerous.

Except when I am being mauled by marauding dinosaurs or orcas, or being slashed in half by a Lightsaber, it is a pretty good gig, being a mommy.

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Yes I know, Darth Brooks was a bad joke, but I can't help but think of it every time he begins listing the sith.

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on December 30, 2008 (boomark / email).