Wordy Wednesday: Have you met Pretty Kitty?

[brigid]

So, Nikola apparently has an imaginary friend.

His imaginary friend is sometimes named Boy or Roy, and is a Pretty Kitty. He is a RED Pretty Kitty.

He likes the following:

Watching Meerkats
Eating Fruit Snacks
Eating Fruit Snacks With Meerkats
Going In Tunnels
Eating Bananas
Eating Bananas With Too Many Monkeys
Riding Trains
Playing With Trains
Playing With Blocks
Butterflies
Taking a Bath

He also likes playing “Rusty and the Boulder” which, coincidentally (and like everything else on the list) is something that Nikola also likes. “Rusty and the Boulder” is a game based on the Thomas and Friends episode “Rusty and the Boulder,” and consists of Niko making a very long train on his wooden train track (or lining up a bunch of stuff on the floor to make a train) and then saying OH NO! BOULDER! while he rolls a ball toward the train and knocks everything around.

He will do this for hours.

In other news, we thought we had a mattress for Nikola’s “big boy bed” so instead of getting a toddler bed, we bought an actual bed (from IKEA), only to find out that 1) the mattress was extra long (even though more than one person measured it and thought it was normal length!) and 2) someone else (a family member) had “dibs” on it. So now we have a bed and sheets even, but no mattress. We bought one, and it’ll be delivered tomorrow. Niko loves his bed so far, though, especially because he can drop things between the wooden slats that will eventually support the mattress, then open up the storage drawers to retrieve the things dropped through. Fun times!

His sheets are Thomas sheets. He even has a Thomas comforter. Spoiled? What?

In actuality, this is STRATEGY. We’re hoping that the allure of A! New! Bed! (with fun drawers!) and Thomas! Sheets! (we let him pick between those or “red car” (lightning mcqueen) sheets) will make sleeping in his own bed something to look forward to, and maybe I won’t get kicked in the head quite as much all night going forward. Maybe Pretty Kitty can help us out.

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Comments

[waldo]

When we talked about tomorrow's Adventure, he did ask to go back to the zoo to see "too many monkeys" and "baby monkey go up". I'm pretty sure he didn't completely comprehend when I explained that the zoo is on hold until the Overwhelming Need to go somewhere Air Conditioned has abated.

Something tells me that seeing the huge water tables at the Nature Museum will make up for not seeing "too many monkeys".

I'm highly amused that Pretty Kitty likes watching meerkats. That's pretty awesome. Pretty Kitty must have found the house too hot yesterday because we didn't see or hear from him at all.

[brigid]

Mostly I ask him questions about Pretty Kitty and he responds. He doesn't really talk about him out of nowhere. But Pretty Kitty has very definite likes and dislikes.