the house with the red door

it was pointed out to me that i have never posted about madelyn imaginary destination so i thought that i would take care of that now. so madelyn apparently splits time between our real house and her "old house with the red door". i think the description comes from when we went by the house that matt and i owned in kansas where we had painted the front door red during our trip this summer.

i am not sure that i can capture the entirety of "the house with the red door" in a single post, but i am going to try and cover the basics. pretty much anything imaginary in madelyn's life has the color red involved - that is always our first clue that what she is saying is pretend. it is also where she can do and have anything that she might not be able to do or have in her real life.

it might go something like this, "i took my red car to go see my sister and we had red ice cream!" usually the story is much more elaborate but that gives you a taste. she will even get excited when she sees something advertised on tv because she has it at her house with the red door. one that stands out is the water bottle station by one of the water filter companies. she says something every time it is on.

she also says that she has been on trips before. like while we were in minneapolis she told us about the time she flew there on her red plane and rode the rides. and she could see her house with the red door from the plane.

today we were doing our united states map and she told me that her house with the red door was in michigan. of course the picture on the michigan puzzle piece was a red car...

it is so funny how consistent she is with this and we enjoy hearing all the things that she dreams up to take place at her house with the red door. love.