Tian's Most Recent Imaginative Personalities

Thomas the Train: must wear blue panties, very helpful, has all of the other trains as her friends... Percy, James, Sir Top M. Hat.

A few weeks ago at church, she was Thomas. I didn't realize she was still Thomas when we walked past her Sunday School teacher. Mrs. Brown said, "Hello Tian!" Tian whispered in my ear, "Tell her I'm Thomas." I whispered back, "This is church and you are not Thomas. You are Tian here!" She burst into tears, melted all the way down. Reality was too much for her at that moment. She worked through it and I believe she was Tian for the rest of the morning. Later in the morning, Mrs. Brown said, "Hello Tian!" Tian said, "Hi Mrs. Brown." The drama!!

"Rolly" or "Packer" from Bob the Builder, I am Wendy and Steve is Bob. All of the other cars are invisible and have personalities also. It can get pretty complicated. She loves to drive into the mud and then go through a car wash made from my skirt hanging down. When she is Packer she loves to say, "Pack me up and watch me GO GO!"

Stretch: the measuring tape from Handy Manny, has all of the tool friends like Rusty, Squeeze, ... Kelly...

This one is hilarious. She sticks her tongue out like the end of the measuring tape and looks for things to measure. Then she calls her friends over to fix things.

Pete: the mean one on Mickey Mouse... she has a snarl on her face the whole time she plays him and talks with a voice similar to his on the show! When she wakes up from a fake nap, she barks, "What is all the commotion awound heah?"

Emma: sister Savannah who is invisible, sister Mia who is her Asian Bitty Baby, I am Bridget, Steve is Kevin... This is a family that just returned from China with a daughter. The eight year old is one of Tian's favorite people in the world.

The other day, "Emma" and I were talking. I asked her who her teacher was at school, thinking it would make her break character. She never does! Never! She answered, "Mrs. Knupp." I had no idea she knew who the real Emma's teacher was... She studies these characters - it is amazing!

Mercy: twins are Luke and Sophie (2 of her dolls), Micah is invisible and causing a raucous, I am Jen and Steve is "Mawk". This is a family from church and from her play school. They have included Tian on a field trip and a trip to their grandmother's house. Tian is fascinated with a family of five children, when she is included as the fifth. 

I could go on and on... Is this normal?

Sometimes I wonder...

about her... 

Tonight we went to Moes to eat! It always costs us 5.84 no matter what we order! And that is why we go there to eat! It may relate to the fact that Steve's daughter is one of the manager's so we always seem to have an invisible coupon... 

Tian ordered her "Tian plate" that her sister always prepares for her. But it wasn't Alexa fixing it. It was a new guy at the assembly bar. He threw the chicken on the plate, sprinkled it with cheese, and then garnished it with black olives. A lovely presentation, was what I thought! Tian took one look at the plate and had a semi-horrified facial expression. Alexa knows Tian and puts the chicken in one part of the plate, the cheese in another section, and the black olives in another. They don't touch. 

So we got to the table and Tian immediately started pushing the olives over to one corner. I asked what she was doing. She looked up and said, "I'm just ohganizin it!"

She is hilarious! But I wonder what she is going to be diagnosed with and what medicines we are going to have to write on her school health forms.