Grant is still enjoying the concept of invisibility.
He doesn’t use it to blame anyone, a la, the invisible friend ate the last cookie, but he is using it to try get out of things:
“I washed my hands with invisible water.”
“I cleaned my invisible bedroom instead of this one.”
“Well, my invisible shirt is in the hamper…” (as I complain about the dirty clothes on the floor)
“I ate the invisible broccoli and I’m too full now. Sorry.” (May I be excused, please?)
I am embarrassed to say that I have reached my limit as far as enthusiastically pretending to see invisible aliens and space ships.
I don’t want to keep taking bites of invisible food offered to me, petting invisible animals and watching invisible juggling skills.
Seriously, I’m done.
If that knocks me out of contention for Mom Of The Year so be it.
(ppft. As if this didn’t knock me out of the running on January 1st!)
However, last night instead of picking out our bedtime story, Grant pulled “invisible books” out from behind his back for me to read. Although I am sick to death of Invisible Land, I was howling as he gave me each book and announced its title:
Rocky Is Mad At Grant To Chase Him
Grant Hunted A Deer And Killed It
and its immediate sequels:
Grant Hunted A Moose Too
Grant Went Away From Home And Went Far And Came Back And Kissed His Mom And Rode His Bike
(The announcement of these titles were peppered with instructions for me to stop laughing.)
I “read” them and drew the line at reading any more. After all, I had to hurry up and write these crazy titles down verbatim before I forgot them!
(Bonus: You can skip pages of invisible books and the kid will never know!)
*Grant confuses the phrase “scared of” with “shy of” when it comes to discussing our cat and its feelings about Grant….
~~~~~UPDATED to add~~~~~~~~
Grant just brought me an invisible glass of wine. Seriously!!! Does my kid know me or what!?
(I took it – it was a 2005 Rombauer Chardonnay for crying out loud!) 🙂
Stopping by from SITS to say WELCOME! Hope you enjoy getting to know everyone!!
Have you considered that Grant may be a genius? He’s so creative! Maybe he will write books or something when he’s older, or invent a toy called the “something something 3000.” By the way, your comment on my blog had me laughing out loud. I never considered it was the little one at the end of the bed! What a rookie mistake…
: )
Macey
He is so creative! I love it. I think that when kids can use their imagination like this the possibilities are endless. Maybe we’ll see him on the NY Times bestsellers list one day!
BTW I’ve already caught myself skipping pages on some really tired nights and Deaglan’s not even one and a half!
OMGosh! This seriously had me cracking up. I’m sorry…LOL
Coming by from SITS! WELCOME!!
those a hilarious titles! i agree with the others, he sounds to be very intelligent and creative.
I am so glad you are writing all these fun things down that Grant does. I promise you, you will miss them someday!!!
~Becca
Oh Grant, that is priceless – invisible books.! That is too cute! Jacob’s invisible friend was – are you ready – Dumbo the flying Elephant. We had to make room for Dumbo, set a place for Dumbo, I had to tuck Dumbo in. He never wanted to look at Dumbo at the Disney Store, he would turn his head away. One day Dumbo flew away and never came back. ~ Robyn
That was just stinkin’ hilarious!!
I love invisible world but I especially loved that you were clever enough to skip invisible pages of invisible books!!
Howling with laughter!!
Those books are sound great! Are they available for my invisible Kindle yet?
And how did that invisible wine taste??
Nothing going on with baby yet- it is Friday night and all I have to do is peruse my blogs…see if there are any new postings…..lame…I need to google how to kick start this labor thing!!
~Becca
I am stopping in to give you a big welcome to the SITStahood! We are so glad you joined us and we look forward to seeing you around!
hee hee. Can Grant find me an invisible Cakebread chardonnay?