Wild thing

It's school holidays and we are at the Morrises. It's just past 7am and your brother and sister are asleep.

You have breakfast and while eating you see a little robot thing, that Maddie has made out of bits of cardboard and a toilet paper roll. 

What is that? You ask me.

A robot that Maddie made.

Oh i want to make a poppet too!

Ok. After breakfast.

So after breakfast i help you make a 'poppet' out of a toilet paper roll and a water balloon and tape. You glue on his eyes and hands and pom pom nose and call him 'Snow man'.

You ask me if i can fold you a plane.

I do.

For some reason later on - you are playing with Snow man and decide you will tear him apart. You rip up your plane too.

Tivi looks at you like you are crazy. She tells me you have destroyed your things.

You run into the garage and when i find you, you've tipped out all the chalk from the container and it is all over the floor.

I ask you what you are doing.

But mum, I am a wild thing now.

I'm like Max.

I'll eat you up because i am a wild thing.

I laugh because you have always been terrified of Maurice Sendaks 'Where the Wild Things Are' - i ask you where did this come from...

You say 'Because i'm not scared any more. I am a wild thing now.' And you smile at me. 

I say to you 'You must be the wildest thing of all!'. 

You smile and say yes, yes i am.

I help you pick up the chalk. 

I make you a crown. 

I am just like max! You say. I am king of the wild things.

I love these things the most.. these random moments with you kids.