Imaginary Fighting

This morning, I was rudely woken up by the sound of the children fighting. Since I thought that Joshua was there to handle the situation, I decided to go back to sleep. However, they got progressively louder and I was becoming concerned. When I came out of the room, I was surprised that they were all at the dining table eating their breakfast with the children shouting at each other across the table earnestly and my husband looking extremely bewildered.

When I asked Joshua what happened, he said that Joash pretended that he had a pink car in his possession and Jayna said that she wanted him to lend it to her. Almost gleefully, Joash refused to hand over the imaginary car and Jayna got pretty upset. Joshua had tried to convinced Joash to pass the "car" to his sister but to no avail. However, since the "pink car" in question did not actually exist in reality, Joshua could not scold/punish Joash for not sharing the "toy". My husband was stumped as to what to do to stop the strange quarreling.

After hearing all these, I pretended to pull out yet another "pink car" from my pocket and presented it to Jayna. "Now, the both of you have one pink car each, " I told them. Jayna happily took the imaginary toy from my hand and the matter was resolved. LOL