Playing Pretend Gifts

"You're fine, but your teddy bear can't come in until he's properly vetted."

"My teddy bear performed our wedding ceremony an hour ago, Mommy...so who do Joey and I see to get a divorce?"

Desperate Househusbands

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

"When I want your second opinion, I'll ask for it!"

'No, I can't be the horse, YOU have to be the horse!'

Joel's mum was very strict. . . No homework, no air guitar.

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Tuning Up for the Air Guitar Competition

Little doctor.

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

Imagination

"You always get to be the therapist! I never get to be the therapist!"

"You want a generic or a regular sugar pill?"

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

"I tested very high in playing."

He kept pretending he was going to work when he was just running errands.

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

'AQ popgun? I want a field model Browning pump chambered for the 3-inch magnum load.'

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'