Exploring negativity

D: "Mommy, let's be sad." "I'm sad."
Me: "I'm sad, too."
D: "Maybe we're sad because we miss us Daddy."


D: "I can do that now because me getting bigger! I'm growing big, and some day, I be a grown-up!"
E: "Yeah, and after you're a grownup for a long time, maybe around the time you're seventy, then you'll die."
D: "No. I don't like dyin."