My 5 year-old son’s wedding

Yesterday, Caio, my 5 year-old going on 35, (the same one squeezing Thomas and one of his friends’ in his hands) made the following statement: “Mom, I don’t think I am going to get married. I think I am going to live alone. It is easier, it is better.” Uh? What?

I swear it was just like that, with those words, no foreplay. And to what I replied: “But son, why?” And the answer was as complex as the first statement: “It is too complicated, mom. I don’t know if I can marry Roberta Antunes (all children these days know each other’s full names, don’t ask me why) because Rodrigo  Lima also wants to. And I am not sure if it will work with Fernanda Silva and I certainly don’t want to marry Marília Teixeira. So mom, isn’t it simpler just to be alone, really?”

And I tried: “- but son, it is so good to live with someone…”

To no avail. Caio has decided, age 5, that being alone is less complicated. I hope he learns in the “few” years to come, before he is a grown man, that although complicated, being with someone is great, and it is worth it.

This marriage thing was stuck in his head, because, in the afternoon, he said to his grandparents he was marrying Roberta Antunes. And grandpa and grandma happily replied “we will be there.” And Caio immediately said: “I don’t think so. I think you will be buried, and I think you will be already a skeleton, because you are so old”. (He said that quite naturally, as a statement of fact, no harm intended.)

Cuak!

Caio, Sofia and the Jurassic Era

To cheer you up a bit…

Time and fantasy inside a child’s mind is something more than fascinating (particularly to a mother of an only child…) I was just on the phone with my friend Luciana who told me that Sofia, her 4 year-old, was playing with her Polly – and her dinosaurs. They lived peacefully together, and the dino’s back was being used as the catwalk to her well dressed and very fashionable doll’s show.

And Caio, my son, got from his Aunt Lore, a motorcycle, and from his Godmother, a giant dinosaur with remote control – what happened? Not two seconds passed by and the dinosaur had already eaten the motorcycle guy in a “Jurassic battle, mummy”…

Well, the worlds of Caio and Sofia will collide tonight when they meet to play together.

Let’s see what happens with this fashion and motorcycle shows in the Jurassic era…

Cuak!