Monroe Parenting

Caitlyn has quite the active imagination. She has a whole slew of imaginary friends, and each one has a name (that she NEVER forgets), a personality, age and car — and even their cars have names (but don’t ask me why)!

Let’s see …..there’s Belli, Blackie, Slidie and — her favorite — Causry. She talks to them at restaurants, yells at me when I “bump” them on the stairs, and plays games with them in the car. On occasion, she will even call them silly or do their voices if I ask her a question about them. Causry is the ringleader and has even surpassed former favorite “Hava.”

We haven’t heard from Hava in a while, so last night at dinner we asked Caitlyn where her buddy has been. She looked at me across the table, put on a serious face and said “Hava is dead.”

WHAT?!!! Totally was not expecting to hear that out of her mouth!! Here’s what she had to say about what “happened” to Hava:

“She was not holding onto her mommy’s hand and she was in the street and shaking and a truck came along and hit her. … Now she’s in Heaven.”

I didn’t know whether to be freaked out by all this or bust out laughing by how matter-of-fact she was about the whole thing. It was just the most random, bizarre thing ever……..

I think I had better keep a close eye on the rest of her imaginary buddies. No telling what she has in store for the rest of them!

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