A Sound Bite of My Day Today...

Mommy, I want to run to the pit.
Um, what pit?
The king wants to run to the pit.
Sarah, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
A pit is a round hole.
Yes, that's right.
The king wants to run to the pit.
Oh! Are you talking about King Darius and Daniel?
Yes.
I want to play the king running to the pit.
Okay, but right now you need to eat your tomatoes.
I want to play the king running to the pit and you be Daniel.
Okay, Sarah, but after dinner.
Okay King Darius, Daniel will eat his tomatoes.
Good.

~~~Time passes and dinner is over.

Sarah, it's time to go to the bathroom and try to go potty.
Okay King Darius, I will obey.

(Thought of the mother, "Why, oh why doesn't 'Sarah' obey as well as 'Daniel'?")

~~~More time passes and I hear the shuffling that is Sarah moving the stool to the toilet, putting the toilet seat up, the child's seat on the toilet seat, and then a pause...

Sarah, do you need some help?
Yes, King Darius, Daniel needs you to undo his button and zipper...

On and on it goes... Sometimes she's Elijah and I'm deemed Elisha, she's Cinderella and I get stuck being the evil step mother, she wants to be Ariel without her voice (Hallelujah!), but I draw the line at being Ursula so she settles for me being one of those slug things Ursula turns the merpeople into... Sigh...the constant imaginings of Sarah...