Grace's imaginary friends

I want to write about this before I forget about it. This summer, Grace has had many imaginary friends come to live at our house. Their names change. Her current imaginary friends are "Wakefield" and "Arrow."

The name "Wakefield" comes from a Weezer song "My Name is Jonas." This is Grace's current favorite song to play on guitar hero and listen to on Daddy's ipod. Grace will be asking Santa for an ipod for Christmas (really??!!, she's ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD!!!) Anyway, she's named one of her imaginary visitors after a line in the song. She says that Wakefield is a horse.

Arrow is also a horse. There is a real horse at our barn named Arrow. He is a grey half-arab horse. He is always very social with Grace. She has never ridden him, but she loves to chat with him in his stall as she comes in or find him in the pasture. One day, she was desperate to pet him and he was way out in the middle of a muddy pasture. I wouldn't walk out to see him. She called to him and he RAN to the gate to let her pet his nose. It was seriously the sweetest thing. I don't know if imaginary Arrow is related to real Arrow, but she seems to like both of them quite a lot.

Sorry, we don't have any photos to post of our imaginary friends. Grace says she has about 10 imaginary friends in all including herself.

ps - David just reminded me - Grace calls her imaginary friends her "air buddies." Playing guitar hero, she has mastered the art of playing air guitar, so anything pretend is "air."