Roy asked for a story about foxes - specific ones: red, purple, yellow, and blue. I repeated it back to him (as you do when you're trying to get a toddler's story requirements exactly right). When he confirmed, I started with the basics - foxes in

"Tell me a story," he says. "The one about the purple fox and the red fox." A story I’ve told before but never exactly the same. The purple fox hurts his leg. These things happen, even to purple foxes. But it's fine because

This morning, my three-year-old held up two Lego witches hats, bases pressed together to form a diamond shape. "I've got a question for you," he said, offering me this construction. When opened, the makeshift container revealed two glittering red pom-poms nestled inside. Perhaps he meant "