The imagination of a child.

Tiarnan, two, is an imaginative child, even as children go, I think.

The other day he reported, in all seriousness, something to his mother: "I saw two cockroaches...five cockroaches. They were brushing their teeth (he paused to let the image sink in), washing their hands (he paused to let the image sink in), having a bubble bath."

Syahidah, a little surprised at this story, checked each fact with him, "You saw cockroaches brushing their teeth?"

"Yes." he said with a certain nod.

"You saw cockroaches washing their hands?"

"Yes." he said with a certain nod.

"You saw cockroaches having a bubble bath."

"Yes. Just now." he said with a certain nod.

Wow. What a wonderful world young children live in - where even the cockroaches maintain the highest standards of hygiene.

I think all of our children display varying degrees of wackiness in their imaginations. It may be that Tiarnan turns out to be the wackiest of all (though he has stiff competition from Fintan, I think).

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