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mamakaykay

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It's been a while since I have posted and back when I posted more often it was usually about my now 6 year old son, Cameron. Well our youngest, Aaliyah is now 2 1/2 and is coming up with some pretty interesting stories of her own! I don't know if it's purely imagination or if it's a past life coming back, or what but I thought it was worth sharing!
First of all, for a 2 yr old, Aaliyah is pretty advanced as far as speech and things go (have 4 older siblings helps with that, lol) so she's easy to understand and usually there's no mistaking what she says.
So recently she began telling us all these stories about her "friend". He doesn't have a name but he's a male. He goes almost everywhere with us and when he's not with us he's at "school" according to Aaliyah. She talks to him as if he's right beside her and will point to where he is if you ask her directly. Her story stays consistant no matter what. One day we were walking Cameron and my 9 yr old daughter, Lexie to the bus stop in the morning and Cameron asked Aaliyah if he could hold her other hand (I was holding 1) and she got mad and said "No, my friends holding my hand!" and sure enough she was holding her hand out as if someone were holding her hand. She plays with him, talks to him, even fixes his "owies" when he has them. She takes him very seriously and will get mad when we can't interact with him the same way as she can.
Now to the more recent story: She keeps telling us she lives in a cave and died because of a bear. She doesn't really have more to it than that but it's pretty interesting. She is very expressive about it all and she has told everyone the same consistant story about being in a cave and dying because of a bear. Anyway, I just thought I would share this on the forums and see if other's have similar stories...the only thing that comes to mind is maybe she remembers being a cave-person?
 
It's nice to see you again, Mamakaykay! :)


Thanks for sharing about Aaliyah. I was wondering when she might start talking about these things, if she's anything like her big brother. :D


Have you read the older discussions about imaginery friends here on this forum? People have different beliefs about them. Some say they might be memories from past lives, others thins they're soul guides or some other spirits that the children can see. Keep us posted about Aaliyah's friend, and also about her bear story. :thumbsup: It might be imagination - or then not. ;)


Karoliina


PS. Stella hasn't really said anything PL related at least so far. She has a baby brother now, btw. He will be one month tomorrow. :)
 
Hi mamakaykay. Thanks for coming back and posting updates! That's really interesting about your daughter's "friend" and what she's said about how she died. It could have been a cave-person or maybe more recent, hiding out in a cave etc. Let us know if she shares any more details.
 
Interesting mamakaykay.


I myself have had a memory of being a caveman. It was really interesting as I had all of those emotions I know are there but they presented as very raw and basic. In my memory I was leaning over my wife as I realised she had died. I reached down to craddle her in my arms and felt such grief and pain.


Maybe you could find some questions to ask your daughter about how she feels about that caveman and her freind.


soulfreindly
 
Hello Mama....


You don't know me as I was not a member during the time that you were posting about Cameron. I remember you because I was lurking. You were pregnant with your little girl. It's hard to believe over 2 years have passed since her birth.


I too believe it's very interesting that she has a friend and I know you are probably writing down what she has said.


How is little Cameron? He was such a sweet and loving child. I was going to ask if he was still as loving toward his little sister but then realized you had said that he was trying to hold her hand. I think that answered my question....


You have some very special little children...
 
I agree. You are blessed to have very special children. :thumbsup:


I have always been fascinated with cavemen and memories of such seem very special to me. I know there are threads around here about prehistoric memories. I will have to read through those again.
 
Hei Mamakaykay! Thanks so much for the update - I'm fascinated about your little girl's comments and her interaction with her "friend"!


And yes, you are blessed to have such wonderful sweet children! :)
 
Thanks all for the replies! I honestly don't know what to make of the cave stories other than either imagination or memory, like I said she stay consistant to the story no matter who she's telling it to...the older kids are pretty amazed as are my husband and I. My husband doesn't entertain the possibility that the stories OR the friend have anything to do with anything but her imagination, he just doesn't believe in these things but I do and I just am blown away by it all! One day my mom and I had Aaliyah at a restaurant for lunch and the whole time she was telling us her friend was sitting next to her. I just wish we knew his name! I am tempted to go through a baby name list with her til we find it, lol. We do know he's a male because I asked her and she said he's a boy. Which kind of surprised me because IF he's just in her imagination I would picture her choosing a girl as a friend because she's kinda "girly-girl" though she DOES love big trucks, lol.


When the friend first came around there was actually 2 of them, according to Aaliyah. She would play with them in the living room, they were almost always above her (we would ask where they were and she would point to the celing and say "my friends are up there") unless they were playing with her (one time she told us they were digging on the floor-her exact words "my friends are digging...like this" and she proceeded to get on her hands and knees and do a digging motion with her hands).


And the cave thing...once again something she mentions almost everyday and at totally random times. I love prehistoric things so I think it would be pretty neat if this was a PL memory popping up!


Her and Cameron are still really close...she's really attached to our oldest daughter Ariel (11) but more with a parental respect (Ariel's a little on the bossy side with the whole big sister thing, lol) but her and Cameron have this whole other relationship, he loves her so much and is very loving towards her even when she's in one of her moods and hits him he will just gently tell her "no leela...we don't hit". And Cameron is normally a pretty rough and tumble kid, he wrestles with my husband and our oldest son but he's very sweet and gentle with Aaliyah...a while back she went through this phase where she insisted on calling him "my boy" rather than by his name, lol.


Karoliina, congrats on the baby boy!! I bet Stella is over the moon with him!
 
A little more to add


I thought I post a little update since Aaliyah is still consistantly talking about this cave/bear story. Everyday, several times a day her and I will have a conversation that goes like this:


Aaliyah-Mommy, I need to tell you sommin'


Me-What is it?


Aaliyah-I died in the bear cave


now usually she won't elaboreate much beyond this. I will say something like "oh really? What happened?" and she won't really say much beyond repeating "I died in the bear cave". But this morning I was able to get a little more out of her. The conversation started the same as always (like what is said above) and then she told me her "friend" was in the cave with her! This is THE friend, the boy who goes almost everywhere with her but doesn't seem to have a name at this point. So when she told me her friend was there too I was able to get some more information and it went like this:


Aaliyah-my friend died in the bear cave


Me-your friend who's here with you now?


A-yea my friend.


Me-what happened to him in the cave?


A-the baby bear killed him


M-Oh it was a baby bear in the cave? Did the baby bear kill you too? (keep in mind for someone her age she seems to have a strange knowledge about death).


A-No, I killed the baby bear.


Me-the what happened?


A-I died in the bear cave with my friend.


So it sounds like to me, she is saying her and her friend were in the bear cave together, the baby bear killed her friend, she killed the baby bear, then she died herself in the cave but I couldn't get out of her how she died. Once again, I don't know if these are memories or if this is all made up but I have worked with kids her age and older for over 10 years now and I have never heard such a story from a child so young! I wish we could figure out her friend's name though...this morning after this conversation my husband and I tried a bunch of different boy names to see if she would recognize any and she didn't other than ones of people we know (i.e. I said "Tim" and she laughed and said "no! Not Uncle Tim!"-Tim's my brother, lol).
 
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