Anteater family

Connor has always been a little bit more into animals than Jamie was. While Jamie likes having stuffed animals in his bed, for instance, and tends, typically, to be very loyal to a few of them, Connor really adores having as many of his "guys" around him as possible, and is much more apt to carry them around the house. He also likes to pretend that we are a family of one kind of animal or the other. There's clearly some therapeutic quality to this because it's helping him work through missing Sarah. As often with Connor he's a little fuzzy on the chronological details of the trip. We had explained pretty clearly that she would be gone for three weeks, but of course the day after she left he saw a plane in the sky and excitedly asked if Mommy was on it.

But the day before she left he asked if we could pretend he was the Anteater baby and Jamie was the Anteater kid and I was Anteater Daddy and Anteater Mommy was going on a trip. So we've done that periodically. One of the only discernible differences between our Anteater life and our normal existence is that when being an Anteater Connor gets to snuffle his food off the plate. This pleases him lots more than it does Anteater Daddy.