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— Beth, age 4, after declaring her superpowers over the environment
| Beth: | [age 4, holding a book about dinosaurs] "Did you know that nobody has ever seen a real dinosaur? They all died a long time ago! All these pictures are just drawings! They don't REALLY know what color the dinosaurs were. Maybe they were white with purple stars! Maybe they had glitter all over them! Maybe they had fuzzy curly fur all over them like a pink poodle! That's what I think they looked like." |
| Me: | "Really? You think the big scary T-Rex was pink and fuzzy and sparkly?" |
| Beth: | "Oh yes. ESPECIALLY him!" |
| [Scene: | at the request of Beth, age 3, I've just gotten out a bunch of beads and string] |
| Me: | "So what should we make?" |
| Beth: | "Let's use pink string." |
| Me: | "Okay." [measures and cuts pink string] "What kinds of beads do you want?" |
| Beth: | [selects a handful of pink and sparkly beads, puts them on the tray] "Here. This is what we're going to use." |
| Me: | "You know, I cut this string long enough to make a necklace, but I forgot to ask what you wanted. Do you want a necklace? Or would you rather have a bracelet?" |
| Beth: | "I don't want a necklace /or/ a bracelet." |
| Me: | "Oh, okay. What do you want to make?" |
| Beth: | "Let's make a slingshot." |
| Me: | "What? You want to make a slingshot?" |
| Beth: | "Yes, a slingshot!" |
| Me: | "With all these pink and sparkly beads?" |
| Beth: | "Yes." |
| Me: | "Why?" |
| Beth: | "To shoot monsters, Daddy! Don't be silly." |
| Luke: | [age 7] "You know what? Nobody really knows what kind of skin dinosaurs had. They might have had fur. Big poofy fur." |
| Mom: | "Or tight curly hair like a poodle." |
| Luke: | "Oh yeah. And pink. Imagine a T-Rex with fuzzy pink poodle hair. In a dress. With a crown and a magic wand. Look at me! I'm the fairy princess T-Rex!" |
| Luke: | [age 6] “Why don’t they make army tanks in pink?” |
