In this case, he did not dictate the story to me; instead, he wrote it out for and by himself. I think it’s terrific, particularly for someone as young as he. His fertile mind pleases as well as surprises me. Enough of my scribbles, though – herewith, the latest from the mind of Caleb:

You won’t believe what happened!

I woke up one morning and looked in the mirror. Overnight, I had grown an extra eye. It was huge!

When my friends saw me, they fainted. They thought that I was a monster, but I was not!

Or was I?

Then, after school, my parents noticed the same thing.

The next day, I didn’t feel good. Once I woke up, I found myself in the paramedic’s office bed. Every minute I vomited. I did not like it at all. It was horrible.

I hoped that the next morning, once I go to school, no one laughs.

What a clown!  Don’t you just love him?  I sure do!

He and I were at iParty in the summer of 2010, where we found all sorts of costumes. Caleb wanted to try some on…hence we show here the Groucho Marx glasses, nose and moustache and the Curious George Man’s Yellow Hat.

Hooray, it worked!

Here is another – hey, maybe it’s a series that will run long…kind of like Zane Grey’s westerns!

Here it is:

One day there was a Gingerbread man who was in a gingerbread house. Santa Claus was in his sleigh and saw the gingerbread house. There was a little Christmas tree outside.

There were decorations on the house, and the Gingerbread Man was playing with his little mouse. Then Fox came running over to the Gingerbread Man and said, “Let’s have some food, and let’s be friends forever. I will be nice!”

The Gingerbread Man said “let’s go flip a coin and see if we’ll be friends.”

“The coin landed on heads,” said Fox, “and that means we are friends!”

“Okay, Santa Claus,” said Fox, “let’s pull the presents to town.”

After delivering the presents, they returned home, ate their dinner and went to bed.  “In the morning, we will open the presents,” said Fox. 

After they opened all the presents, they decided to go to the movies, to see Alvin and the Chipmunks; and then they went to The Children’s Museum because they wanted to learn about Mars.

After that, Fox said “let’s all mow the lawn together,” and they did.