Have you met Wilbur? He is Elliot’s imaginary friend. He is a character when the kids play (for example, Elliot is Jake, Trav is Cubby, and Wilbur is Lightning McQueen.) Wilbur is 7 years old and Elliot says he sits between the boys in the back seat. The kids are so matter-of-fact about Wilbur that sometimes I look around for a real person.
Today we are going crazy. The weather is bad and all the indoor play spaces are packed. So I pulled out the last resort: paint! I reserve paint for outside projects normally, but today called for something drastic. I had an actual project for the kids to do, but as soon as they saw the paint they wanted to just mix all of it together. Which is what they did.
And then Elliot used his mixing spoon to make a special drink for Wilbur.
Cassel had an imaginary friend named Shocka, as in “Frere Jacques,” who was the perpetrator of all the bad things that happened. Fletcher's imaginary friend was Billy or as he said it, “Biddy.”
We simply have Simba from the Lion King. He's been with us for quite a while. Lilly kind of left him in the dust but Odin invited him to continue on with us.