how 3 yr olds see the world

Last night after getting the 3 middle kids to bed I decided to kill an hour playing Rollercoaster Tycoon before I went to bed. Now you have to understand that my littlest girl sleeps in my room most nights. She always has a reason behind it like her bed is to small or her pajamas don't match her sheets so she can't sleep in them or the cat told her to sleep in my room! The reasons are always something totally of the wall and said in such a serious voice that it is hard to tell her no! Anyways last night while sitting in a relatively quiet house playing on the computer I hear this tiny voice from the other room singing a song to me. She was singing me a song about how lonely she was in my room and how if I left her alone in there for long the big orange and purple striped alligator was going to take her away. I paused my game so that I could concentrate on listening to her song. The longer she went on singing it the crazier it got. The alligator was going to take her camping with grandma and then to ride the school bus to the movies of all places!! After 15 minutes of listening to her song and silently laughing to myself I finally gave in and went in to bed before she disappeared forever with an alligator whom I am told lives in my closet behind my shoes