Irrefutable Logic?
Posted on August 19th, 2006 by Sureka, when Jeyanth was old, and Maya wasJeyanth: Look, Amma, I’m a doggy.
Me: Really? You look like a little boy to me.
Jeyanth: Woof Woof
Me: I don’t know Jeyanth, I can’t see your tail anywhere…Pause.
Jeyanth: But Amma, Dibley doesn’t have a tail…
In case you were thinking that I was being horribly unsympathetic to my child’s imaginative play, you should know that Jeyanth has been a doggy for more or less a month now. This conversation was in the context of my trying to get him to do something which he was declaring himself incapable of doing because he was on all fours.
It must be said though that Jeyanth has entered into this ‘being a doggy’ thing with some diligence - he actually watches the dogs very carefully to mimic what they do - like lie on the sofa with his chin on his hands and his tongue hanging out. I once found him sitting on the mat holding one foot up near his face with both hands, almost overbalancing. When asked what he was doing, he declared that he wanted to scratch his ear with his foot like Hairy McLary does! (Our dogs don’t scratch much but J’s got a DVD of Hairy). We must admit that though the dog thing is mostly cute/funny, it has trying moments, like when he insists on walking on all fours on the muddy driveway or when he tries to eat without the use of hands. We also discovered this week that he has made some converts at kindy - when we went to pick him up the other afternoon, there were several children on all fours following him barking!
Oh, and for historical record, before he was a doggy, he spent about a fortnight being a beetle. This was pretty much limited to lying on his back and waving all his limbs around. Obviously the possibilities were too limited with that one, so he’s moved on.