Hello,
When my son was about 3ish (I know he was at least 2 maybe had just turned 3) we were all outside playing. It was my husband, my daughter (who was 5 at the time), he and I and an airplane was going overhead. He looked up it just looked at me and said "I used to fly one of those. My name was Buzz." I tried to ask him questions about it but the most I could get out of him was that he shot other planes down.
Then, not to long ago I was sitting at the kitchen table and for god only knows what reason, an image came into my mind of abot 6 men standing on what looked like the film when you take it out of a camera to develop it or the big reels that they play in movie theaters, and my son looking just as he does was standing at the front of the line of them. The thought "Wow, Eric is an old soul" popped into my head along with it, but the man right behind Eric was dressed in a brown bomber jacket complete with the scarf and goggles (sorry, I don't know the proper names of these). If I ask him now that he is 7 he just smirks and looks at me like I am crazy!
But then another time he said to my mom that he knew her when she was little. He mentioned something that only she knew from a time period in her childhood. They are very close and I always thought that my daughter would be my grandfather becase I got pregnant with her 8 months after he died and I got pregnant with Eric only 3 weeks after my grandmother died. He has alot of her tendencies.
On another note, my daughter has a fasination with babies. She wants a million babies she has told me. One time my mom was telling them something about a baby that was born dead and my daughter had been listening but was staring and just said "Oh, I know how that feels." I am sure that she had at least one life where she had a baby die soon after birth. She also has always said that I am the best mommy she ever had. I ask her about that sometimes but she just shrugs.
Kathy
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