Mar 29 2007
Muscle Guy Three
Here’s my cute little Fluffy in all her cute little fluffiness.
As I understand it, many children have imaginary friends. I never did, but that’s because I was way too logic-driven from a very early age. I guess I sorta assumed that since I didn’t ever have an imaginary friend, my children wouldn’t have them either.
HAHAHAHAHA
(That was one of my very few complaints about my own mother–she just assumed that my siblings and I would be just like her and it really threw her through a loop when we weren’t. She would buy me clothes in colors that would have looked great on HER, but TERRIBLE on me. She sent me to schools that would have worked for her but didn’t work for me. She tried to dissuade me from making certain career choices, simply because they weren’t the right choices for HER. And here I go, assuming that my children will be just like me, which they aren’t…. But I digress…)
Fluffy has an imaginary friend. Actually, she has an imaginary husband. (Where does it talk about imaginary husbands in the parenting handbook? WHERE???)
She talks about him ALL THE TIME. By name. And what’s his name?
Muscle Guy Three.
And how on earth did she come up with that name?
I HAVE NO IDEA!!!! NONE AT ALL!!! She just started talking about him one day. In great detail. She knows him so well. I kinda think she knows him better than I know my own, real, flesh-and-blood husband.
For the first few months, Hubby and I snickered. It was so cute, so silly.
We don’t snicker anymore. Muscle Guy Three is part of the family now. Seriously, we’re so accustomed to him and stories about him that we don’t even flinch. I ask her how Muscle Guy Three is today and she answers me in a very civilized manner. It’s very matter-of-fact for all of us now.
Soon she will go to Kindergarten and it will be interesting to see how her friends respond to her stories about her Husband… I hope they won’t be too cruel…
Did you have an imaginary friend when you were a child? If you have children, do they have imaginary friends?
I had imaginary friends, sort of. When I was a kid I loved tv and the characters became my imaginary friends…
My kids never really had imaginary friends per se. However, they did have stuffed animals that were sort of their imaginary friends…
Muscle Guy Three- That’s fantastic!
I wouldn’t be too worried. Imaginary friends are pretty common. I would much rather have an imaginary friend to tote around than the 6 hippos my son insists on having.
I myself didn’t have an imaginary friend, but I imagined just about everything else. Sheila, I’m sure, will share her story about HER imaginary friend on here. Just you wait folks, it’s hilarious!
That daughter of yours is seriously so awesome. I love, love, love her!
Haha Kate, I can’t believe you remember!
I had an imaginary friend for a long time. Her name was Cantsee, get it? Can’t See- hehehe I was so clever!
My mom says that she was just part of the family. I don’t really have any specific memories, but I do remember having her around- I needed a sister I guess.
Rylie’s imagination is in full force these days too! Her current imaginary frined is Lightening McQueen from the movie Cars. She calls him “Lightnin’”
He comes with us everywhere. Sometimes she will burst into tears if she feels he is being mistreated (like I set something on the seat he was sitting on, etc.)
She is also obsessed with weddings. She is going to get married to her friend Christian in 5 days (she has told me this everyday for the last 2 months). Also, at her wedding she is going to wear a white dress and hold flowers from Costco and people are going to throw petals at her. Oh, and then the 4 babies that are in her belly will come out.
Welcome to my life . . .
Sunshine had an imaginary house up in the clouds where ALL her kids lived (we never got an exact count, but I think there were around twenty). She had horses and Pegesus’(Pegusi?). Whenever she couldn’t do something she was like, “I’ll just go to my house and do it.” She was always telling stories about her kids, about how naughty they were. It was funny for a while, too. She quit talking about it a while ago, but most people remember that phase.
its funny, it must be really good time you are spending with fluffy
I had an imaginary friend named Nikki. She looked and acted exactly like me. And we were best friends. So, looking back I can imagine how narcistic that must have seemed, but Nikki got to at least live out my fantasy of having very long, flowing hair when my mother insisted of giving me a bowl cut.