Hannah knows I'm much more agreeable to certain suggestions than her mother. So Hannah has asked me on multiple occasions if I'll take her to the candy store. But she has a particular candy store in mind. Usually the conversation goes something like this:
Hannah: Daddy, I wanna go to the candy store, please.
Me: What candy store?
Hannah: The pink and white candy store.
Me: Where is it?
Hannah: It's on the sidewalk.
I have not figured out much beyond that. I'll ask her where the sidewalk is, and we go around and around that it's near the candy store.
My current theory is that it's a recurring dream of hers. She wakes up and remembers the dream, and asks about it. The reason I think it's a dream is because when she talks about it, she hold her hand up to her face and makes the OK sign. Frequently, she'll do this when recalling a visual aspect of something in her mind. It is not necessarily something that doesn't exist. She'll recall seeing something real this way too.
I'm not entirely sure she made it up, but that seems like the most likely scenario at the moment. I have to be careful about injecting my own ideas into this. So I decided to interview her to see if I could get to the bottom of this mystery. You'll notice my line of questioning takes two kinds of approach. Sometimes I'll suggest an idea which she confirms or denies. Sometimes I ask more open-ended questions for her to fill in the blanks.
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