Dream Book
A movie around our house that was popular for awhile was Shark Boy & Lava Girl. A feature of that movie that has stayed with us is the dream book. In the movie the main character has a dream book where he documents his imaginary friends lives. Or the stories he makes up in his head.
I am an artist so I have sketchbooks that I fill with similar type things. One day Gabriel asked me to draw him as a Jedi fighting General Grievous from Star Wars. Sometimes I need assignments to get me going. So after doing my assigned work I did this fun project for my son.
He loved it. I kept finding my sketchbook all over the place and he would study the other pictures to. The problem was he was somewhere between 3 and four at the time and he is not gentle with books. He likes to sleep with them. I had to keep rescuing it from his bed. Since he kept calling my sketchbook his dream book I took the hint.
I found one of those composition books a person can get at school supply areas of the stores. I keep several around the house for brain fiction burping emergencies. I labeled it Gabriel’s book of dreams and copied pictures I drew for him of him having amazing adventures.
I added that photograph I made of him on the broom this week and today I added a drawing of him as Mario from the video game I drew upon his request about a month ago. I took some time to color it today. Both Gabriel and Hannah watched me do this. Gabriel wants me to add Daddy as Luigi. I am putting that on my to do list in my mind. I keep trying to get him or Hannah to color the pictures too, neither is interested in art so far but they like to watch me.
I need to start working on one for Hannah. I want to do one of her dancing, playing soccer, and sword fighting. I should do one with her on stage in a rock band as the lead guitarist. She has a cameo in Gabriel’s Jedi fighter page. She is in the pink one of course.
--Mom
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