So, our kid has this great sense of imagination, like all kids not raised in Skinner boxes. Although now I think about it, Skinner box kids would probably have to have an active imagination, too, given the lack of stimulation. May have to rethink my whole premise here, other than the fact that Skinner boxes were used for cats and not children, thankfully.
Anyway, when she was around 2 and a half to 3, she was doing a lot of "when I was <noun>, then I also did <appropriate activity for previous noun>."
For example, "When I was an astronaut, we went to Saturn and had lunch with the aliens."
Yes, she said that to me once.
Our favorite of all time, though, was a couple of days after she walked into the bathroom while her daddy was in there. Once you have a child your privacy rights are all taken away. You thought the NSA was bad, at least their snooping is all in the background, and you weren't aware of it until Snowden told us all about it. A child, on the other hand, will follow you in to every room in your house and constantly ask you what you are doing there and why you are doing it.
One day, my husband made the mistake of not locking the door when he went into the bathroom. She walked in there while he was in there, and saw him standing in front of the toilet.
E: What are you doing?
Daddy: Going to the bathroom.
E: Why aren't you sitting down?
Daddy: Because this is one of the ways boys are different. We stand up to pee.
E: Oh.
We thought that would be the end of it. About 3 days later, we were all standing outside on the porch, visiting with friends. Completely unrelated to the current topic of conversation (probably politics or video games), she hits us with this declarative statement before wandering in to the backyard:
E: When I was a boy and I had a tail, I used to pee standing up.
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