Remember how I used to post videos of my conversations with Caleb during dinner time?  Well our "conversations" have evolved.  Now we actually have reall dinner time conversations.  I'd say about half of our time is me telling him to face forward and eat is food and not get distracted by toys and... yadda yadda yadda.  The other half is "how was your day?" kind of talk, which is really fun.

Most days Caleb lies to me and tells me he did things he didn't actually do.  I check with our nanny to see if his stories are real or not.  I just think it's funny he makes stuff up. 

So now, I decided to make dinner time into story telling time.  When we run out of things to say, in order to keep his attention, we make up a story.  Caleb tells me the major details, and I narrate it with voices and sound effects and hand motions.  In general, we get alot of laughs out of story time.  Since we get so many laughs, I thought I'd share a Caleb story with you.  I'll highlight the details that Caleb provided me with.

This is last night's story:

Once upon a time there was a robot.  He was blue.  His name was Robot Robot. 

He lived in a world of red robots... so he was a little different.

One day, Robot Robot blasted off! (add a countdown and rocket noises here)

He went to the moon!  When he got there, he saw the earth.  And it was big and blue and beautiful!

And then... he missed his Mom-mom (that's caleb's name for me).  He was very sad and cried because he missed his Mom-mom so much.

So he blasted off again! (add a countdown and rocket noises here)

He flew back to earth and landed.  And then he blasted off again!  He flew around earth looking for his Mom-mom.

He put on his binoculars (put your hands up by your eyes like binoculars) and he loooooked and loooooked and looooooked for his Mom-mom.

Then he saw her!  "There she is!" he yelled.  (point and pretend you see Mom-mom)

So he landed... and then he... put back on his binoculars! (put your hands up by your eyes like binoculars)

Apparently he didn't land close enough to Mom-mom, she was too far away!  So he saw her through his binoculars and yelled "Here I am Mom-mom!"

Then he ran up to her and gave her a BIIIIIG hug (pretend you're hugging your mommy) and lots of kisses (make kissing noises)!  "Mom-mom, I love you!" he said.

Then he told Mom-mom, "My tummy hurt." (point to your tummy)

So Mom-mom had to check to see if he had a temperature (put your hand on your forehead like you're checking for a fever).

She declared, "You don't have a fever my little Robot Robot!"

And then she gave him a slice of orange and he ate it and he felt much better! (we were eating an orange with dinner)

The end

Maybe next time I'll video tape this so you can enjoy the creative process :)  My son sure does have an imagination.  But I also find his stories are very indicative of what he is obsessed with at a particular time.  Last night it was rockets, space, robots and Mom-mom!

Hopefully as we make up more stories, I can post them here.  Enjoy!