G’s imagination has officially gone into overdrive, or more appropriately, underwater.   We are now the Dolphin Family: Mommy Dolphin, Daddy Dolphin, and Baby Dolphin.

She’s been referring to us this way the last few days.   She’s also asking me to swim.   I may have to feed her some herring for dinner just to see how real she wants this to get.

All her little shows have animals, and a constant motif of Dora, Wonderpets and Diego is that there are animals in trouble.   You’d think animals were the stupidest creatures on earth, the way they constantly get themselves embroiled in situations just like…t.Humans.

This is kinda annoying when I’m trying to do something and she is yammering on about swim, paddle, use your blowhole, watch out for the tuna boat’s dredge net…but its very satisfying to watch her use her mind and get SO INTO IT!!!   Its fun to make-believe with her, and her enthusiasm is infectious.   One thing that I have always done well with her is play on her level, since acting childish is easy for me.   And she always tells me “you’re silly daddy!”   She doesn’t say that to anyone else (at least that I’ve noticed), so i feel like playing her games is something special we have just between us.