"Spiderman car?" I asked. "What Spiderman car, Georgie?"
"Tile." Georgie responded miserably, but finally with a little interest in conversing.
"Tile? What are you talking about - tile?"
"Tiii-ile! Ti-ile!" he whined, and so I continued asking him insane questions about floor tiles and game tiles until I figured out that he was not, in fact, referring to tiles after all. He was talking about Kyle (clearly pronounced "tile" in two-year old dialect) and the Spiderman car that Abby had bought for the party.
"You want the Spiderman car that Abby bought for Kyle?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said. "Tile's bider-man tar. Not Tile's. Mine. My bider-man."
I should have foreseen this "spidey-envy" when we were at the toy store buying Spiderman toys. I should have realized that I could never get away with bringing a Spiderman product into our house and then back out again for any reason. Who was I kidding? I have the boy who does not waste time pretending to be Spiderman, but instead has convinced himself, and truly does believe, that he is in fact the superhero himself. I reassured Georgie that first thing in the morning, I would take him to the store to buy him his very own Spiderman car. The instant this promise was made to him, his temperature instantly plummeted back to 98.6°, his mood elevated significantly, and he has been happily coloring at the table (in his Spiderman coloring book, wearing his Spiderman pajamas) with his sister for over an hour, chattering away the entire time (about, who else, Spiderman).
I've been sitting and thinking about what new illness Georgie may be coming down with, but then I started to wonder: is Georgie really falling ill with the flu, or could it be that he is literally sick without Spiderman? And was it really the Motrin that brought down his fever so rapidly, or was it the promise of a new "bider-man tar" that healed him?
I think that we are, without a doubt, dealing with a Spidermaniac.
1 comment:
Awww, poor little buddy!!! I hope he got to get his Spidey car. I hope you are able to catch up on some sleep, too.
Love you,
Mom
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