Jack’s at preschool this morning and I have all kinds of housework crap to take care of, but Mikie wanted me to go upstairs and play “building” with him. So we got the construction stuff all set up and had our construction site where we were “building a house.” As I sat there getting kinda bored, I looked at Mikie and realized what it means to him to have me play just him and me. I smiled and watched him with his big imagination… a while later I told him I had to fold some clothes and asked if he wanted a snack. We don’t usually have a snack mid-morning but Jack gets one at school, so that was kinda fun. Hot chocolate and some triscuits (can’t believe he likes them, especially plain, but he does). Then folding clothes, and more folding and more… Seems we had Mt. Everest in our laundry room of clean clothes. How sad is that!? So anyway, I went up to put the boys clothes away in their room and there sits Mikie… all alone, with his headset and McD’s visor on, talking to himself, taking orders on the McDonald’s playset Granny got them for Christmas. He didn’t even know I was there until I coughed.
Then he proceeds to tell me, “my friends took my kitchen from me.” I said, “well, those aren’t very nice friends if they took your kitchen.” He says, “well, they didn’t have one and they needed one so I gave them mine." I said, "wow, that's really nice of you Mike," and he replies "that’s why I
have to work at McDonald’s.”
Later while I was “ordering” some food from him, he would tell me “ohh, we are out of that or we don’t have that anymore.” Where does he come up with this stuff? McDonald’s hasn’t ever been out of anything we’ve ordered so I have no idea where he heard that!
Just now as I thought I’d tell ya this funny stuff, I hear Mikie say to me “Molly is working at McDonald’s with me.” I turn around and see Molly on the floor (don’t worry, I had put her there) with the headset on! Cracked me UP! So I quick grabbed my camera. Hilarious this kid, an original I tell ya!
