Lilly has an imaginary being that comes around now and again. That’s the normal part. I know lots of kids have imaginary friends or pets that they play with and talk to. Lilly’s is named Al and he’s a bully. We don’t know a lot about Al, but we do know that he has purple hair and lives in the sky. He pushes her, takes her toys from her (how?), calls her names and is generally mean to her. She gets pretty tore up about him at times and calls him her “pretend bully”. She often retaliates by spitting on him. (Something she didn’t learn from us.) If you were going to conjure up something, I don’t know why it would be a bully to terrorize you, but she gets points for style and creativity on this one.
On another note…each of the girls have a favorite lullaby. Sophie likes to hear the Beatles “All You Need is Love”. Lilly’s go to is “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. I started singing “Baby Mine” to Evelyn and that’s her favorite. In case you’re not familiar with that one, it’s the sweet little ditty off Dumbo…an absolute tear jerker! Lilly likes to sing to Evelyn too and just this morning was doing a bang-up job at Evelyn’s lullaby. Except I noticed something. She was singing “baby mama” instead. It takes that song to a whole new level. (More creativity points for Lilly.) Now if only I could find out who Al’s mama is, we could sit down together over some imaginary coffee and settle things between our children before somebody gets hurt.
The Ballard Five 
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