An update on Tyler's Rainbow Monster's

I've written about Tyler's Rainbow Monster's a few times, here  here, and here.  Last Christmas I video'd him talking about them and it has a lot of the basic information about the Rainbow Monster's in it.  I am thrilled that 10 months later the Rainbow Monster's are still alive and well.  (Inside Out has me devastated about the day that they will no longer be a part of our lives!)

Some more recent Rainbow Monster highlights include:

Before our most recent trip to the Magic Kingdom, Tim asked Tyler if he was going to ride Splash Mountain now that he is tall enough.  Tyler said, "No, I rode it once and I didn't like it."  Tim told him that he had been too short the last time we went and Tyler said, "I rode it with my Rainbow Monster's"  Tim asked how the Rainbow Monster's were able to get into Disney World, Tyler didn't miss a beat, "They're invisible..." (the 'duh' was clearly implied!)  Tim's last question was how they got there; they flew of course!

Over the summer, The Pavlus' were coming over for weekly swim lessons and dinner.  Caleb must have been hearing a lot about the Rainbow Monster's, because in the car with Suzanne one day, Caleb asked Tyler if he could go to the Rainbow House with him some day.  Tyler enthusiastically said yes.  Suzanne kept trying to hush Caleb and later told him the monsters aren't real, but that he better not dare tell Tyler that.  Caleb was very confused.  I told Suzanne not to worry, Timmy tells Tyler that they aren't real all the time.  Tyler always checks with me and asks if I believe they are real though.  I always say yes.

For a short while, Tyler tried to use the Rainbow Monster's to keep from going to bed at night, telling me that the Rainbow Monster's come and take him away for the night when I don't let him sleep in my room.  Other night's Tyler would just matter-of-factly announce after prayers that the Rainbow Monster's were sitting on the couch in their room.  When we are saying our God Blesses, Tyler will frequently ask us to pray for his Rainbow Monster's boo-boo's, and those frequently reflect something that has happened to Tyler recently, or someone else that we are praying for.

One day a month or so ago Tyler got super excited about it being his Rainbow Monster's birthday and that we were all invited for their party.  Tim and I said that we were excited to finally go to his Rainbow Monster's house.  Tyler talked about it all day, I'm pretty sure he told Susan and Tim Sr that they were invited also.  When nighttime came, he even had us waiting outside on the driveway for a while for the Rainbow Monster's to pick us up.  Finally he agreed to go to bed.  The next day Tim asked Tyler why the Rainbow Monster's never came.  Tyler said they did, and had taken just Tyler to the party, we could go some other time!