Aidan and his fictitious names.
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When we go to bed at night we like to read stories.
Sometimes we read as many as four. Aidan has a real appetite for night time stories. One of his new little twists lately is to point to characters that are illustrated on the pages and say, "Papa, that one's name is Bumber." I'll pause my reading and listen to his declaration and say, "Oh, okay. I didn't know his name. Thank you Aidan." For example tonight while reading
<em>Danny and the Dinosaur</em>, I found out that the dinosaurs real name is
"Bumber." 

Once I start to pick up the reading where I left off he will sometimes point at another character and say,

"Papa, that one's name is Langey."

"OK Aidan. So that one is named Bumber and that one is named Langey." pointing at the appropriate characters.

Also, every now and then he'll throw in, "That one's name is Jupiter."

I have to remind him that Jupiter is the name of our recently carved pumpkin and will be until we put him to rest.

"Yeah." he'll say." And we'll continue to read the story very content in both knowing the names of those oft forgotten characters.