This year for Halloween we allowed Hooper to choose what he wanted to dress up as for Halloween. He's really been interested in dinosaurs and all things that roar for some time now so we thought a t-rex or lion would be something he'd like.
Shiloah sat with Hooper one night and showed him pictures of all sorts of lion, tiger and dinosaur costumes. He showed mild interest until he saw a penguin costume. He jumped up and down crying "A penguin! A penguin!" Shiloah continued to show him tigers and things that roar hoping to distract him but the penguin won out.
When we got the penguin costume we still weren't sure whether or not Hooper would wear it but he quickly tried it on and began flapping his wings. We actually had to make him take it off that first night.
Soon after this I noticed that Hooper was jumping off of things more than usual. His bed, our bed, the couch, chairs anything that would give him a little height. One day I asked him what he was doing and he put his chin to his chest and very quietly said, "I can't fly." Then he began flapping his wings like he did in the penguin suit. It was then it hit me all this jumping was an attempt to fly like a penguin. He was so disappointed that I didn't have the heart to tell him penguins don't fly either. A kid needs goals in life.
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