Fred was 5 earlier this month. For me, his birthday is the start of the Christmas season - about a week after Thanksgiving. I used to move my own birthday cards out of the way as the Christmas cards arrived, but now I move mine out of the way to make room for Fred's. I have only now uploaded photos.
He is at an absolutely delightful age, before school or unkind older children have intimidated him. He tells us he loves us several times a day, sings outloud and plays games with imaginary friends and dogs, and runs around the house bellowing car noises, rocket explosions and dinosaur assaults.
We had 6 friends from his pre-school over to play, along with his long-time buddy, Grayson. This is Real Grayson, and not Pretend Grayson. Fred was so enamored of this boy that over a year ago he morphed into his imaginary friend. Pretend Grayson can be a handful: sometimes he's 18 and drives a monster truck; other times he is a little older than Fred and can do things Fred can't, like skateboard or play fancy video games. Sometimes Pretend Grayson is mean and says bad words and spits and Fred won't talk to him.
Fred also has an imaginary dog, called Liefer, who is sometimes a Boxer, and sometimes a Labrador. Liefer emerged about the time our old dog, Kiera was re-homed. Leifer is very good and doesn't bite people. There used to be another dog, called Chumley, who was occasionally a Pug, (because I love pugs) but often just a brown dog. Fred told me the other week (this is well after we adopted our 8 yr old very gentle German Short-haired pointer, Lulu) that Chumley was gone. He had bitten lots of people and scratched and growled at everyone and Fred had to give him back to the dog rescue people. So now we just have Lulu (real) and Liefer (pretend). Oh, and there is also a pretend cat, called Alex, who is good friends with our real cat, Ollie. But Alex is very quiet, and only comes out when we're at the pet store buying cat food. Then he needs special imaginary toys.
Fred also has an imaginary dog, called Liefer, who is sometimes a Boxer, and sometimes a Labrador. Liefer emerged about the time our old dog, Kiera was re-homed. Leifer is very good and doesn't bite people. There used to be another dog, called Chumley, who was occasionally a Pug, (because I love pugs) but often just a brown dog. Fred told me the other week (this is well after we adopted our 8 yr old very gentle German Short-haired pointer, Lulu) that Chumley was gone. He had bitten lots of people and scratched and growled at everyone and Fred had to give him back to the dog rescue people. So now we just have Lulu (real) and Liefer (pretend). Oh, and there is also a pretend cat, called Alex, who is good friends with our real cat, Ollie. But Alex is very quiet, and only comes out when we're at the pet store buying cat food. Then he needs special imaginary toys.
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