Dumbo

You know how small kids and even babies have a little confort thing that they do, it could be anything from playing with their hair while they go to sleep, sucking their thumb or having to touch their mother's face while they nurse.
Alex has always had an affair with his ears. Since he was very small he would touch and play with his ear to go to sleep or relax, he wouldn't pull on them or anything like that, just run his fingers through it. Even though I constantly correct him for it and told him all the horrible things that could happen to his ear like fall off or break , I would never tell him things like he was gonna get big ugly ears and all that the other kids would make fun of him, because I didn't want him to get any kind of complex about his ears.
Dumbo is one of his favourite movies. There's something very touching about that little elephant with his big blue eyes and huge ears.
A few days ago Alex was fiddleling with his ear again so I told him that they were gonna get big and ugly if he kept touching them. His enthusiastic reply was:
-Mom, that would be super cool because then, I can fly!!!
-Humm, not quite Alex!.