Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Katie Knows What's Real

Katie was playing camping the other day, and when it got dark she was not ready to stop. She collected our flashlights and little toy lantern and headed outside to continue her play. She came in for a jacket and before Matt helped her back outside, he had this little exchange with her:

Matt: Watch out for the goblins out there.
Katie: Dad, there's no such thing as goblins.
Matt: Okay then, watch out for the ghosts.
Katie: Ghosts aren't real, Dad.
Matt: Watch out for the monsters.
Katie: Monsters aren't real.
Matt: Okay, watch out for the dragons, then.
Katie: Dad, dragons aren't in Limon!

3 comments:

striving... said...

How cute! She is quite a whitty little girl!

Heather said...

Very brave Katie! If we dared to tell Olivia to watch out for the monsters she would run and scream and never go outside by herself again. Probably her age as well.

Andrea said...

Striving, I don't know about witty, but we love the way her brain works.

Heather, when Katie was Olivia's age we could get her very afraid and angry at us just by making a monster noise. I'm afraid we enjoy teasing her as much as Titus does. I always thought it was peculiar, though, that Katie's first response to being scared was to lash out in violence, not run.