Big Imagination

I am typically so busy that I don't spend enough time documenting all of the amusing things the kids do and say. So, before I blink and another five years has passed, I wanted to make sure and write down all of the details of Irgovone - the planet that David lived on before coming to earth. As anyone that knows him can attest, David has a huge personality and big imagination. He has created this entire universe, known as Irgovone, where he lived for thousands of years before finding a time portal that allowed him (and Henry) to travel to Earth. On Irgovone, everyone lives forever and he is the oldest person there, thus making him the leader. He is even older than his parents - a fact he explains by saying that there is no time (although he hasn't addressed how he is the oldest without time). This weekend, we were driving to a birthday party and David annouces - "On Irgovone, they do not have tornadoes. They do, however, have clouds that descend on the towns and drop jewerly (you know, like rings and necklaces) onto the ground - like rain. But, it is not rain, it is really a bomb that explodes when you touch it." When I said that this sounded scary, he further explained that the explosion does not hurt you and no one on Irgovone dies - it just makes a lot of noise. At this point, we drove by David's Bridal and I hear David say -"D-A-V-I-D, what the holy heck? That is my name"...

He also still has Crockpecker - his imaginary friend/pet that lives in his room in a little house Granny D made for him. Lately, Crockpecker has been giving David a hard time. David was telling me that he is having a hard time getting Crockpecker to make good choices and he has been quite frustrated with him for hitting him. He said that Crockpecker refuses to pick up his toys (not sure what toys an imaginary pet has...) and that he has been being mean to David... David informed me that he was very disappointed in his behavior.

Here are a few pics from our recent adventures... I include the picture of the decorated house becuase Matt and I did it all by ourselves (which took about 5 hours and almost resulted in both divorce and injury). I was determined, however, that we were going to put lights on our house for Christmas.  To complete this little project, I made 6 (yes, that is right six) trips to Home Depot throughout the day, purchased 3 different kinds of staple guns and two different sets of lights!

Here is the pic from last week at the Christmas parade.... the kid's loved the parade.. Santa, well, Henry was unsure and David is skeptical. On that note, David has also decided that Elf on the Shelf is not real. At least not ours. He said that Emory (a girl from his class) has a real elf on the shelf - with a heart and blood - which means that hers is magic. Since our elf (Chip) does not have blood, veins or a heartbeat, then he is not real.. and David touched him, and he is not magic. That was pretty much the conversation that ended elf on the shelf (which is, to be honest, perfectly fine with me. I don't have the time or patience to get up and hide that damn thing every night anyway)....

David has his chess tournament this past weekend. He won the game and promptly annouced to the coach when we were leaving the party that he was the best chess player in the class... no lack of confidence:

Henry learned how to climb up the slide at Pump it Up. We were there for the 6th or 7th Birthday party hosted at Pump-it-Up in the past month (very popular place all of a sudden). I think after watching all the fun, Henry was determined to participate.

David was so tired after a very busy weekend: