The Hands and The Feet

Oh, for the last, let's say, six months or more, Anna has been doing this quirky thing with her hands and her feet. She refers to them in third person. Here are some examples of the kinds of things we hear from her:

"The Hands don't want to get into the car seat."

"The Feet won't stop kicking the seat. I told them to stop, but they keep kicking!"

"Look what The Hand did! It picked the doll up and threw it!"

The Hands and The Feet get in trouble quite frequently and several times she has put them in time-out for their misbehaving. She has even gone as far as spanking them for not listening to her! It sounds and is a little crazy, but all we can do is laugh (or try really hard not to). I keep wondering if this is better then an imaginary friend? At least these aren't imaginary, although there are times it appears that she has little control over them:). Even for her lack of control, she does tend to discipline them fairly quickly for their actions, especially when reminded by Mommy and Daddy. For now we'll just continue to be entertained by The Hands and The Feet and see what other adventures they take us on!!:)