Some little girls have imaginary friends. Lydia, on the other hand, has imaginary family. One would think she would have plenty of family, being one of ten, already the Aunt of our fifteen month old nephew Evan (Geoff and Abi's little guy), another nephew, (Ben and Ashley's baby) on the way, and Mom due with our eleventh sibling a little less than a month later than Ashley. But she has several imaginary family members. "Mary" was the first imaginary sister, and is pronounced more like "Mowy". "Mowy" had to go pick up her grandfather at the beach, because he was eaten and spat out by a shark. The reason Mowy's grandfather is not her grandfather is because "he's fifty years old" as she informed us in shocked tones; apparently that's to old to be her grandfather. Mowy's husband's name is Sarah Jane. Another sister's name is Caleb, and Caleb is mad that she got a boy's name.
Kendra pointed out something interesting about it the other day. It's not so very strange that she should have an imaginary family, for she hears about all these different people that Dad and Micah and Kendra work with that have nothing to do with her. Therefore, she makes up her own people, and meshes it with the stories and people she hears about from her older family members. As an example, this is a conversation she had with Micah recently.
Lydia: "Tell everybody at work I love them."
Micah: "Okay. Do you even know anyone from my work?"
Lydia: "Um... ya.
Micah: "Who do you know?"
Lydia: "Um... Dan."
Micah: "There's not a Dan where I work."
Levi, trying to help Lydia, told her to say Jonathan.
Lydia: "Jonathan."
Micah: "You don't know Jonathan."
Lydia: "Yes! My sister is married to him."
Micah: "Jonathan isn't married."
Lydia: "Yes. My sister married him. You can ask him."
Micah: "Okay, I'll ask him."
Pause...
Lydia: "If he says no, then maybe I'm wrong."
She's quite a funny three year old.