sergeant hassan

...is totally made up by hubs! he used the quite effective sergeant hassan when the kids are being difficult. he'll say, 'daddy will call my friend sergeant hassan if you don't keep quiet,' or 'sergeant hassan is only outside & he'll come to take you if you make anymore noise.' hubs will sometimes look out the window & the boys will magically settle down.

lil han can be cheeky at times & before hubs could pretend to call his make-believe sergeant hassan, han would be on the phone first pretending to speak to him & asking him to come. so when hubs fetched him from the playschool last week, his teacher came out to ask hubs who sergeant hassan was. hubs could barely contain his laughter & burst out laughing. apparently our lil boy had said something along the lines of, 'keep quiet. sergeant hassan wants to come.'

hubs did explain to the teacher who this imaginary person is. i suppose she'd thought that han is actually well acquainted with a real police officer!