Everyone, Ash would like you to meet Pete the LoveDragon!
Ash received this LoveDragon on Valentine’s Day. Since he’s been naming his toys (including Gerald the dragon) himself, lately — and occasionally other people’s toys — I have been finding occasions to ask him what the LoveDragon’s name might be, since then. Well, he was finally ready to answer — but, he qualified, he could not TELL me. It seems he had to WRITE the name down, instead. I wasn’t going to argue. So it was that he ran to get his Magnadoodle (aka “The Dinosaur Writer Toy”….one of the tools that got a lot of use in training his grip and motor control while allowing his pressure control issues, to not BE issues at the same time), and wrote his newest dragon’s name for me. Then, I had to take a picture, since I’m bad at remembering names. 
The funny thing is that I haven’t actually managed to get my hands on the Pete’s Dragon movie for him, yet. Granted, the actual dragon character in that movie was named Elliot, I believe, but it would still have been a likely source of inspiration. Ash did not want me to ask him where he got the idea for Pete’s name.
Ash did ask me if Pete had a family. I told him that Pete was part of our family now, just like Fafnir, Amethyst, Gerald, Azul, Rojo, Flame, Sparkle, Aurora and Springtime….his other dragons. “But,” he told me sadly, “Pete doesn’t have a Mommy and Daddy who look like him. Like….sort of….you know that Gerald looks like a family with Azul and Rojo, and everybody knows they say that I look like Daddy but except for Mommy-colors of course.“ Naturally, this lead to a refresher talk on what does and doesn’t make a family, etc. “Well that’s true, Mommy,” he said, “Of course, of course, you’re right. That’s a good choice thinking, yes. But I think Pete would like it’s fun to match, anyway.” So, Ash decided that he, Pete and I would all PRETEND that I was Pete’s Mommy and looked like him, and he was Pete’s Daddy and looked like him, too. (Actually, isn’t it sort of normal for little kids to get the idea that they are going to marry and end up some day parenting a child with one of their own parents?) We then, retroactively, taught Pete how to fly and breathe fire.
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