Flying

As we walked to daycare today Liam announced he had a big project today. He was going to work on it all day.

"Oh, that's great" I said, wanting to encourage him to dedicate his day to his wonderful, creative project.

"What is your project?"

"I'm going to fly."

"?"

"Yeah, it will be great."

"OK."

Then I thought of him jumping off the climber, the roof or any other high structure to fly. I saw us in the ER with a broken arm...

"...so you know that flying is only pretend, right?"

"Hmm, I think I can do it. I'll work hard on it all day."

OK, so the whole, if you dedicate yourself to a project and really work hard on it, your chances of success are high thing - he got that. Good. Just not that it won't work for flying.

"Humans can't fly, we don't have wings." I said, hoping that this very reasonable objection would make sense to him and make him realize that nobody is flying around town...

"Oh, well, I am going to use a broom."

OK, I blame that entirely on Harry Potter. So now my picture of him jumping off a high structure has been modified to include a broom.

By that time we were at the daycare. I went up to one of the teachers and let her know about Liam's big plan for the day. Just as we were discussing climbers, brooms and broken arms we overheard Liam announcing that he was going to fly to another parent.

We then talked with Liam about birds and wings and pectoral muscles and how we humans don't have any of those. The we talked about helicopters, paragliders, airplanes and other flying devices. We talked about how a broom is just a broom and can't fly. But, it didn't seem to matter. When we saw his determination, we, the adults mouthed "Ikarus" to each other.

OK, so now my image is Liam on a broom on a climber flying to near to the sun and then falling and breaking his arm.

When I left we had decided that he would illustrate and write a book about Liam flying.

Hopefully this will work. I will be waiting all day long for the phone call that I need to pick him up since he just jumped down from the climber and has a broken arm.