Knights

This is special enough to get it's own post separate from the humongous Disneyland post even though it is related.

Calvin picked up some Knight's on the way home from Disneyland. Now you may think that I am talking about some figurines, but no, these are real knights with armor and horses and everything. There are four of them and they are now his best friends. We found out about them right about the time we drove past St. George. Calvin speaks up from the back seat and says, "Dad you better hurry up, my knights are going to beat us home." We both looked at him and said, "What knights?" He said, "The ones that are riding on their horses in front of us." Then he told us that one of the knights was having a birthday party at our house the next day, so we had to hurry home and make a cake.

Over the last couple of weeks his knights have told him all sorts of strange things. They also tell him that he can have stuff even though Mom or Dad said that he couldn't. And last I heard Calvin told Jon that the knights were hibernating for the summer in the toy room.

Some of the stuff Calvin comes up with just cracks me up. He has such a fun, wild imagination and he is so smart. I don't even know where he learns stuff like hibernating. And he knows so much about castles and knights it is unreal for a 3 year old. He told us where the portcullis was on the Disneyland castle. When he likes something, he really gets into. So far in his 3 short years he has had an imaginary elephant friend that used to ride in our car with us. He has learned the names of every digger truck there is and watched Bob the Builder and worked on Bob's crew. He has built Lego castles with Jon and read a lot about Castles and Knights. He has been Calvin Nephi for about the last 6-8 months. Nephi is his hero. He has memorized so many Book of Mormon stories and acted them out. We just love having Calvin around. He is so much fun!