"You be da fake Mimi!"
Saturday, 11 April, 2009 at 12:57 PM ;)
About a week agoOne of my favorite things in the world is when I get to talk to Mr. Pie on the phone. Now that Rami is 3, he's got more opinions than ever, and the Magical ExpandaVocabulary that matches is sometimes the funniest stuff I've ever heard. Today, sis called while they were on their way to Costco and I could hear him in the back seat. Finally I had to ask what he was saying; I heard my name (well, the name he calls me,) and it didn't sound like the usual "I wanna' talk to Mimi!" The curiosity was taking over.
Turns out what he was saying is that he was talking to Mimi. The Mimi who was sitting beside him in the van. "The Fake Mimi!" (Yes, my three year old nephew now has "fake" in his personal entertainment arsenal.)
Not too long after, I wasn't surprised to learn that he was ready to talk to me. He cleverly suggested this to his mom by saying, "You talk to dis Mimi and I'll talk to dat one." But even I was surprised when he got on the phone and he declared to me: "You be da fake Mimi!" To which I initially responded, "But I don't have to be fake. You can talk to me now. I'm the real Mimi!" Because hello???
Well how wrong was I? He objected. Mightily. "But I want you to be da fake Mimi!!!" (You could practically hear the bottom lip coming out.) And I could tell by the tone in his voice that I was messin' up the plan! Big Time. So I agreed, and all was right in paradise.
Eventually I got far more confused than usual. They were going into Costo. Somebody was going with him. He called her by the same name as me. She's a littlle fake, he told me bye, kept talking to me... it was great. I love this kid. And if he's got invisible friends based on me, I'm thinking it's mutual...
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Well, Imaginary Mimi went with us to Costco and sat in the cart with Rami. I almost made the faux pas of putting groceries on her several times but then Rami saved me from that embarrassment. Then she decided to get out of the car while I was driving, prompting Rami to call out suddenly, "Mommy!!! Stop the car!!!" And then, when you and I spoke again he piped up with "Mommy, Why are you talking to fake Mimi?" I wonder how long she will be with us? I mean, we still have that baby giraffe living in the back yard, eating all the trees!
This makes me really happy. And? The longer he has Fake Mimi to hang out with, perhaps the longer time can pass in which he doesn't realize Real Mimi is 175 miles away and therefore unable to stop in for the evening when His Highness demands. Gotta' say I'm missing the little dude a lot today...