Imagine that

Sophie has an imaginary friend called Munchkin. Munchkin is a huge part of Sophie’s life and as such, has pretty well become another member of our family. Here are just a few stories to introduce you to the world of Munchkin...

I had collected Sophie from Kindy one afternoon and when we were only about 5 minutes from home, I hear a loud gasp from the back seat. “Oh, no, I forgot Munchkin!” Sophie declares, with genuine concern in her voice. “No, no, it’s OK, she’s in here” I said. “No she’s not. I left her at Kindy” she says again, sadly. “No you didn’t, Sophie, she’s here in the front with me”. “No she’s not!” “Oh, sorry, you’re right, she’s in the back with you and Elliott” I tried in vain. “No she’s not, Mum. We have to go back and get her”. Oh no, there was no way I was going back to Kindy to collect an imaginary friend. What a looney! This discussion went on until we got home, where thankfully, I found Munchkin had been hiding in the boot the whole time. A very relieved Sophie embraced Munchkin then sent her straight to time out for playing in the boot. Poor Munchkin, what a rough ride J  

Sophie has a star chart and once she has accumulated a certain amount of stars for positive behaviour, she gets a reward from her surprise basket. Naturally, Sophie implemented the same system for Munchkin. The only trouble was that Munchkin had earned her 5 stars but she didn’t have a surprise basket to get a reward from. “I know”, Sophie says “She can have a lolly”. Great idea. Mat was in the kitchen so I asked him to get down the pretend lolly jar and give Munchkin a pretend lolly. He does so, much to Sophie’s disgust, then she says “No no no, a real one!” I am busy with something else, Mat looks to me for guidance and my response was simply, “Whatever, give her a real one, I don’t really care right now”. Mat hands Sophie the lolly for Munchkin, Sophie thanks her father then promptly stuffs the lolly straight into her mouth! “Whoa, whoa whoa, I thought that lolly was for Munchkin?” Mat says. Sophie responds, with a beaming smile on her face “No, silly, Munchkin isn’t real!” Convenient J

My brother recently got married and there was a photobooth at the reception (awesome!!) Sophie enjoyed having photos with anyone she could pin down and of course, she had to have some photos with Munchkin. Now you would think that an imaginary friend would be hard to photograph but Sophie worked out a way...

Here is a snap of Sophie holding Munchkin up for the camera 

And a snap of me holding Sophie up while she is cuddling Munchkin. Too cute!

So now you have met the whole family. Mat, Sophie, Elliott and Munchkin...what a crazy bunch we are J