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| Sun, 04-08-2007 - 10:40am |
I brought this up in chat last night and just had to update from this am.
Easter is here and Mike being 11 should be on the verge of figuring out things like the easter bunny. Either that or he should already know. I don't know anyone around his age who doesn't and I am surprised he hasn't heard from school or hasn't been teased. The kids are usually pretty nice and understanding with him.
Well yesterday I decide to try and bring it up. I asked questions like "who is the easter bunny" "What does he look like?" "Could he be a myth?" and the boy is completely clueless. He tells me "well it could be a myth, but it is not"
So last night/this morning I push the envelop. I had the kids put together easter eggs for their cousins made from exactly the same stuff that I was putting in their easter baskets. I also had him with me to buy the plastic eggs we were stuffing. One item in particular was very different. It was organic fruit roll-ups in a brand I had never gotten before.
The closest we get is this morning Mike comes in and tells me the bunny had been there. I ask what he got and he said "Jelly Beans, a chocolate bee, 6 hardy boys books and those fruit rolls just like the ones you bought yesterday. That I DO NOT understand" Then off he went. I hear him talking to dave about the easter bunny and it is obvious he never made the connection at all.


ROFL!
Renee,
I hear ya! (way funny on that organic fruit thing)! My kids still swallow that "Bunny" (et al)
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Hey Paula and Renee,
We have a different scenario here. Malcolm hovers between believing and not believing about Santa and tooth fairy (easter bunny usually forgets to come here, did again this year and noone noticed until I read your posts today) and so do most of his friends. But dh had a talk about them not existing except in our hearts, as a spirit of love and giving (and really the gifts come from mom and dad) several years ago and I was just chuckling... Ds at the time told dh off pretty fiercely, that he had no idea what he was talking about!!!
Now, if he talks about either Santa or the fairy, he winks. If there is any suggestion that they may not exist, he whispers "I know, Mom" with an little eye roll and winks, then proceeds to talk as if they exist!
We have a similar routine with Pokemon...
Sara
Sara,
I meant to ask you earlier but got distracted...
Is he winking because you are in on a secret (that they are not really real), or is it a double bluff?
-Paula
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Dear Paula,
It may even be trickier than that... he knows but doesn't want to "know". The whisper and wink is conspiratorial, as if a younger child is in the room and let's not give this away, OK. But methinks the younger child is ... him.
Today after I posted, he and a pal who stayed overnight DID realize that the bunny hadn't come, did the bunny forget? They say, looking directly at me? Well, ooops, guess so, I say, so hey, the bunny could run to the store and get a few things ...
"MO-OO-OM! You're not supposed to say it like that" "Oh, OOOH, guys, is it OK if I run to the store for a few things and I'll be right back! Call me on cel if you need me?"
I get chocolate eggs and plastic eggs with jelly beans and peeps, come back and hide them around the house while the boys carefully avoid me playing in the living room, I tell them I think the Easter bunny may have come, let's look, and then they tell me they have to go to Malcolm's room and pretend to be asleep. We are reenacting the morning the way it should have gone, essentially. So then I am the alarm clock and wake them up, joyous and excited and tearing all over the house looking for the bunny booty.
Malcolm wishes with all his heart that imaginary and magic things would be real. He has said so often. So, he knows and doesn't want to know, and we are all in agreement that this is fine.
Sara
Well Chris is so different on this subject lol. Since he turned 6 he started questioning it. Of course I held out as long as I could but now he gets really mad if we don't tell him the truth because in his literal mind, it can't be possible you know?
In fact when he and his brother got their mini trampolines Chris started in again and said okay really mom, which one of you got these for us? Nick was out of the room at the time. I started out with the easter bunny but he just got really really mad so I said okay Chris It was me. He felt much better but I had to again explain how it was really important we don't tell nick.