Oh their imaginations!

So ... Nic's favorite animal of all time is a TIGER.  It has been since the first time he saw one in the zoo when he was 18 months old.  Time has not changed that.  In one of our many interesting discussions he has commented that Heavenly Father is magic -- when you look at all that he can do to his young mind he has to be magic.  Nic then td me that since He was magic he had prayed to be a tiger.  Nothing has changed -- guess this is a good lesson on prayers and answers.

Jordan asked me if he could have a pet elephant.  When I told him our yard wasn't big enough and that an elephant would smoosh everything.  He told me it was ok -- we could get a baby elephant.  I told him they don't stay baby's very long and he told me when it got too big we could give it to someone who had lots of land -- kind of surprised me he didn't volunteer grandma and grandpa and their farm for that.  Figured our exotic per discussion was done ... Until

On the way to Franklin there is a field where someone has 3 zebras.  When my kids saw it the discussion of pets was opened back up.  Constance said she would love to have zebras for a pet.  Jordan put in his request for an elephant again.  Of course Nic wants his tiger.  I mean, come on, who wants a dog, cat, fish, etc when you can have a tiger. Zebra or elephant.  

THis reminded me of when I was little and my parents were going to Israel and Egypt and they asked us what we wanted them to being us back -- my response was really quite simple -- either a baby camel or baby elephant (alive of course)

And this is what I got-- a wood camel! Makes me laugh.