Coleman and I were sitting in the playroom last night. He was watching on one of his shows, and I was loosely paying attention as I sat with a glass of wine, intermittently throwing Gus his toy to fetch. Coleman has yet to outgrow any of his shows, and he finds great pleasure in stopping and starting the same scenes over and over again.
Last night, he paused the show and looked up with a big
smile. “Just like us!” he said. He had
paused the show on the picture of the family above.
This is a common occurrence, Coleman pausing the show and
saying happily “Just like us.” He does this
often, but most frequently at a time when the characters in the show are doing
something he loves to do, or misses and wants to do again. Sometimes the similarity he sees is obvious,
and other times less obvious.
I looked at the scene he had paused. I was trying to see the common denominator between the picture on the screen and our family or something we had done previously. I couldn’t find one. “How are they just like us?” I asked him. He looked back at the screen, and said it again. “Just like us!” “How?” I asked again. Then he un-paused the show and hit rewind for a few seconds and paused it again. He looked back at me with a big smile. “Just like us!”. The frame he now had frozen on the screen showed one of the same characters, this time hauling a big red suitcase.
“Ahhh!” I said, recognizing
right away that he was referring to our red suitcase. We use that suitcase once per year, for our
annual trek to Florida. This past year
it was cancelled due to Covid. “Just
like us!” he said again. I laughed out
loud and said “Yes, buddy, they are exactly like us!!” We went on to talk about when we could go to Florida again. Afterwards, he went back to the original frame and froze it again. He stood staring at the picture smiling. "Just like us" he said again.
May your family’s doppelgänger be as fun as ours.
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