Yet More Navel Gazing

My younger son, Josh, thinks that Toys-R-Us has magical powers. It started when we would go to their website and surf the Thomas the Tank Engine stuff. Josh doesn't get that they're there to buy, he just likes looking at the things and talking about/naming them. Very appropriate developmentally if you ask me.

Now, he's discovered that Toys-R-Us is an actual store! And, he's decided that my father (papa) has gone there.

Since we don't really do the heaven thing (in reform judaism there isn't much of an emphasis on sin *or* heaven) we haven't been saying that Papa went to heaven. We've been saying very vague things like, "Papa had to go someplace where he wouldn't be sick anymore" Our 7 year old accepts that at face value...its our just now 3 year old that says, "Where is it?" Since we didn't give him a location, he's made one up.

Fine, if he wants to think that people go to Toys-R-Us when they die, that's OK. It's certainly a 3 year old's idea of heaven.