What Color is a Puma?.....Purple Of Course

One of the best things about being a parent for me is not only seeing the innocence and imagination in the games they play and things they come up with but also in seeing and remembering the games that we used to play as kids. Jared went in to pick up Lillian from daycare and when he came out he retold a story the daycare had relayed............

Lillian and one of her 'older girls' i.e. school age girls she gets dotted on by during the summer were sitting in the recliner together, the little girl, H went to get down and Lillian said "don't there is a puma down there" after inquiring by S the daycare lady also known as "grandma Sharon" Lillian told them there was a puma on the floor and it would "get them" this went on for a bit.

So on the way home we were asking Lillian questions about a puma and here is the jest of the conversation:

N-there was a puma on the floor
L-yes, it will get us
N-what color is a puma
L-purple (said in a tone as if to say what other color would a puma be??)
J-what does it look like
L-a dinosaur
N-what does it do
L-at this point she twisted her face up into this awful looking pinched expression while hissing and then fake spit and then followed it up by saying "they spit on you and they are bad and they will spank you" LOL

This conversation went on for a while and then after telling us how horrible they were proclaimed there was one in the back seat with her, she then picked it up and 'threw' it at me yelling that I need to get rid of it. So then the question of how to get rid of a purple puma? I did what any good mother would do and rolled down the window to throw him out LOL. Trying to have an imagination is not very easy for me--at all but this one was 'Lillian approved' because we played that game for the next 10 minutes or so! It was an interesting ride home for sure and she continued to talk about purple puma's for the next couple of days. At one point the next day she decided that SHE was a purple puma.....then when she got tired of us being 'afraid' of her she decided that she was a nice purple puma and we had to 'pet' her because she wasn't like a dinosaur she was like a cat LOL. Ah the imagination!