Imagination

I recently told Ethan he should play with his "imaginary friend" since he couldn't play with Alex as he was asleep.  Ethan found this funny and told his daddy, "Mama's silly."  The other night I started to realize why.

Turns out he has imaginerary animals as hands rather than imaginerary friends.  He was sitting in the back seat and I could hear him growling and mumbling to himself.  I looked back and he had both fists in front of his face.  He was talking / growling alternately as each fist.  As best as I could determine, one fist was some type of cat or tiger and the other was a dog or wolf.  One hand would mumble and then growl and the other would whimper away in the form of a whimper from Ethan and the fist turning into more a jazz hand effect and falling away to the side.  Then the whimpering hand would come back as a fist and start growling - this time more of a dog growl (the first was more like a big jungle cat) and make the first fist do the jazz handed whimper away.  This went on for about 3 or 4 turns before Ethan noticed me watching him.  He was truly holding complete conversations with the 2 fists quite naturally.  When he saw me watching, he grinned and told me he was Pokemon.  As I've never really seen Pokemon, I'll just call his fist friends a tiger and a pitbul.