Nate: I have lost my pet!!! I have lost my pet!
Me: What kind of pet are we looking for?
Nate: She is a little girl.
Me: We will find her. What does she look like?
Nate: She is a girl. She has a little little house and she has a little door and she is little and lost. (don’t you love the descriptive qualities of a 4 year old.)
Me: Okay, lets look for a little girl.
Mckayla finds a polly pocket on the floor.
McKayla: WHO CUT THIS POLLY POCKET’S HAIR!!!!
Nate: It’s my little girl! You found my little girl! (and he tucks her into a little house).
McKayla: DID YOU CUT HER HAIR???
Nate: Yes, I did not like her hair. It was too big.
McKayla: She was a collector’s item (I did not know that polly pockets had entered collector’s item status)! Now she is just a doll with a mullet.
Nate: No. Now she is my pretty pet. I am going to put her in her house and tape it shut.
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blood curling scream!
Nate: We have scary bugs in this house!!
Me: (wishing Dave was home) Where is the scary bug?
Nate: I don’t know, but I found it’s cocoon and its HUGE!
Me: Bring it to me.
Nate: No way!
dreadfully I go see this huge cocoon which is inside my house.
Me: This isn’t a cocoon. This is a fig seed.
Nate: I don’t believe you.
Me: See, here’s a fig. Eat it and you will find the seed inside it.
Nate: (with a look of disgust) There are cocoons in our food?!
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Jacob: Mom! There are salt crystals all over our steps!!! (our front porch iced. i think he’s been listening to too much 6th grade science)
Overactiveovaries 
I am not sure how I feel about Nate having a pet girl…..
he calls all his stuffed animals “pets” so I don’t think he really meant pet girl in that sense, but I find it hilarious nonetheless. I don’t think he can get away from it much longer though, pet girl at 4, cute. pet girl at 30 highly disturbing.
That picture of the pet girl staring out the door of her cell..er, house…is sad! 😦
In all honesty, I positioned her staring out the window so you could see her.
If he starts saying, “It puts the lotion on its skin!” you have to get rid of the pet girl…
lol. I’ll keep an eye out for all serial killer behavior.
I would have let Nate keep the cocoon and put it in a box and try looking it up in books and wait for it to hatch. Maybe mail order him a cocoon for something less frightening and perhaps beneficial to your home/garden.
Ha! If Nate would touch it! He wouldn’t get near it with a 10 foot pole. He won’t touch a worm or even a rolly polly! And the neighbor made him terrified of coyotes so much that I now have to carry him to the car when it’s dark. Maybe we could do butterflies. Who’s afraid of a butterfly right?
Should I be more suprised that he is playing with his pet girl in the kitchen or that the ironing board is out?
I do like the concept of putting tape on her door to keep her in. I wonder if that would work for the little guys staying in their beds at night?
Noah, I was thinking the same thing: “It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
I too hear the soft soothing sounds of the song “Goodbye Horses” playing in
the background.
@notjay you’re hilarious 🙂
Haha! You know why the ironing board was out…crafting!
Can I have a pet girl?…… Wait! Do I have to feed it.
if it’s a polly pocket. No feeding necessary!