Imagine That

My 4-year-old son has an entourage. It's a fairly new acquisition. He spent most of the day yesterday with them while they picked up his toys and cleaned his room and fixed his lunch and such. These kids that he has doing this are imaginary. Sort of. He has four different peeps that hang with him and they all apparently have their own specialities. The most interesting thing about this for me, is that they are all based on real people.

He has made his imaginary friends four of his friends from school, or one might be from when he was golfing or from a long-distance pen-pal, I'm not sure which one he is referring to. It's an interesting predicament for me and the wife when we tell him to go pick up his toys, and he explains that Curtis is doing that for him. When we say to help Curtis, he informs us that he already has Nicolas helping Curtis. He'll even make them take a nap in the afternoon. We'll tell him to go lay down for a rest, but he can't because they are all in there sleeping, and he might wake them up.

I'm not sure if this is how it's working for him at pre-school also, if he needs to practice with his scissors and he has one of his minions do it instead. He has shown some remarkable improvement in the cutting category. Hmmmmm.....

This is my first experience with imaginary friends, but since they are all based on real people, I'm not sure if he's having imaginary friends or if he's getting Beautiful Mind on us. If I hadn't seen all these kids at his pre-school I may be worried about that. Also since he's only 4, I don't think that he has concerns about big brother coming after him.

On another, more exciting note, I signed him up for T-Ball, and that will start in late March. I'm excited, he's excited, mom's kinda excited, his little sister doesn't care. So the whole family has an emotional response to the T-Ball thing, which is good, right?