Conversations with Brandon

Tonight, after Brandon had been in bed for 15 minutes or so.....

over the monitor:
Daddy..... daddy.....
dddaaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.....

Brian goes in to Brandon's bedroom for a few minutes. Comes out, gets the flashlight, and goes back into the room. When he returned to the living room, I asked him how the boy was doing. Brian told me that Brandon is afraid of the monsters. Yup, I've heard that one before. Had to search the closet for them the other night. This is the following conversation, as told to me by Brian:

Brandon: Daddy, where do monsters live?
Daddy: No where. Monsters don't exist.
B: But where do monsters live?
D: They don't exist, Brandon.
B: But where do they live?
D: They don't live anywhere. They don't exist.
B: But Daddy, where do they live?
D: (*sigh*) In the mountains.
B: We drove through through the mountains when we came out from California.
D: Yes we did. But the monsters live way up high in the mountains.
pause.....
B (Never one for dropping a subject): What would the monsters do if they saw us?
D: They would run away.
B: Would we run after them?
D: No, we'd just let them run away.
B: Oh.